Picker Art Gallery

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The Russian Ballet is a series of six colored lithographs of abstract sketches published by David Bomberg in 1919, inspired by ballet. In this lithograph from the series, a grid of yellow and purple lines make up the background, while a knot of tube-like figures dance in the foreground. Often opting for grid-like patterns and simple lines, Bomberg’s work is defined by his selection of striking colors, as well as his rendering of human figures into abstract shapes. He is a...ssociated with the cubist, futurist, and expressionist movements. Bomberg, son of Polish immigrants, began painting in London, eventually attending the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art from 1911 to 1913. After the beginning of World War I, Bomberg served in the Royal Engineers before becoming a war artist until 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled worldwide, including throughout the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Spain. Unfortunately, most of Bomberg’s postwar work went mostly unrecognized. David Bomberg (British, 18901956) The Russian Ballet, ca. 1919 Color lithograph on paper Gift of Robert Gordon '50, 1987.8.4 See more

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Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot was a 19th century sculptor living and working in Paris, France. He was well known for his figurative sculptures, which often featured religious motifs. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français, receiving third prize and a travel scholarship in 1907, and membership and a gold medal in 1920. La Liseuse (The Reader), one of two sculptures by Alliot in the Picker Collection, shows a girl absorbed in the book she is reading. As s...tudents finish their lastweek of classes remotely, we imagine the many childhood bedrooms full of Colgate readers similar to La Liseuse. Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot (French, 18771967) La Liseuse (The Reader) ca. 1909 Marble Gift of Herbert Mayer ’29, 1966.1.956 See more

Meet Tamar Japaridze ’21 Tamar is a student collections management assistant for both the Picker Art Gallery and Longyear Museum of Anthropology (University Museums). She is currently involved in photographing 19th-century cabinet cards and photographs from the museums’ collections. Tamar is also identifying the subjects in different collection works and writing alt texts for them. Alongside these projects, she is preparing a video about correctly handling museum objects in... classroom settings for use by faculty and students. What she enjoys most about working at the University Museums is interacting with a variety of different collections, both physically and virtually, as well as partaking in efforts to make the museum spaces more accessible. See more

American painter Maurice Prendergast’s Winter Day presents a New England landscape on the water. The two leafless trees in the foreground allude to the eve of wintertime, while the layered brush strokes and application of bright color provide a vibrant, yet chilly scene. Prendergast was an Impressionist and post-Impressionist painter working mostly in watercolor, oil, and monotype. He had been influenced by European Impressionism since enrolling in Paris’ Académie Julia...n in 1891. Having only started to paint in his thirties, Prendergast became an undisputed master of his time. Informed by his travels in Europe and his homes in Boston and New York, Prendergast typically painted vibrant city scenes with serried (compact) groups of people, but he also depicted rural images like Winter Day. Commonly, Prendergast’s body of work shares similar form and coloring, capturing the minutiae (details) of scenery, often populated by motifs of figures, parasols, and flags in a wide array of colors. Maurice Prendergast (American, 18581924) Winter Day, ca. 1908 Oil on wood board Gift of Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1991.38 See more

Picker Art Gallery is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos about the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, from artists around the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK). TRANSMISSIONS will premiere online TOMORROW November 30 at 6pm EST, the night before World AI...DS Day, followed by a live Q&A with the artists and Jih-Fei Cheng. See link in bio to register. Picker Art Gallery will host a virtual discussion of the films to coincide with World AIDS Day on December 1 from 12-1 pm. Participants will include: Associate Professor of LGBTQ Studies, Danny Barreto; Associate Professor of Global Film and Media, Ani Maitra; Picker Art Gallery Curator and Co-director of University Museums; Nicholas West; and Nizhoni Saenz ’21 and Destiny Sambrano ’21, members of QTPOC, Colgate’s student club for Queer and Trans People of Color. The event will be an informal discussion about the films and the light they shed on the continuing impact of HIV/AIDS throughout the world, especially in developing nations and communities of color. Link in bio. Image: Jorge Bordello, Ministry of Health, 2020. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020. Still courtesy of Visual AIDS. #daywithoutart #pagcolgate #pickerartgallery #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #filmstudies #worldaidsday2020 #aidsawareness

Picker Art Gallery is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos about the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, from artists around the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK). TRANSMISSIONS will premiere online on November 30, 2020 at 6pm EST, the night before World A...IDS Day, followed by a live Q&A with the artists and Jih-Fei Cheng. RSVP at visualaids.org/transmissions Jorge Bordello: @jorgebordello Gevi Dimitrakopoulou: @gevidimi Las Indetectables: @shalistika, @sofiadevenir, @juan_en_un_millon George Stanley Nsamba: @theghettofilmmaker Lucía Egaña Rojas: @luciaegana Charan Singh: @random_access01 Image: Jorge Bordello, Ministry of Health, 2020. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020. Still courtesy of Visual AIDS. #daywithoutart