James A Michener Special Exhibits Guided Tour
for Artsbridge Members
Saturday, April 15, 2023
10:30 AM Meet at the lobby 15 minutes prior
138 S. Pine St. Doylestown, PA
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More about the Special Exhibits Guided Tour
Alan Goldstein: Elemental
Using the language of abstraction, New Hope-based painter Alan Goldstein (b. 1938) explores nature, the human figure, and mortality in his large-scale paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Goldstein works in concert with his media, whether oil paint, acrylic, ink, charcoal, or pastel, to express the underlying structure and processes of the world around him, finding beauty and emotional power in unexpected places. Curated by Chief Curator Laura Turner Igoe, this exhibition presents over four decades of the artist’s work and will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.
Alan Goldstein received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) and MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York. He has been a resident of Bucks County since the 1970s, when he started teaching drawing and painting at Bucks County Community College. His work is represented in over 70 private collections in the United States and abroad, and he has exhibited his work at the Michener Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, and Art Works in Trenton, New Jersey, among other institutions. Since 2003, he has been a Professor Emeritus at Bucks County Community College.
Image Credit: Alan Goldstein (b. 1938), Upriver From Lumberville Walking Bridge II, ca. 1981. Oil on canvas, 65 x 96 ½ inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Gift of the Artist. 1997.4
Mid-Century to Manga: The Modern Japanese Print in America
Mid-Century to Manga celebrates the historical and continued local interest in Japanese and Japanese American printmaking and illustration. The exhibition traces the story of the modern sōsaku-hanga (or “creative prints”) movement and other creative collectibles across the past century–from Japan to the United States and beyond.
The exhibition will feature 75 prints on paper, over two dozen of which have never been on display at the Michener Art Museum before (such as Kiyoshi Saitō’s Winter in Aizu series).
Highlighting a prominent local story, the central feature of the exhibition is the display of three original copies of James Michener’s 1962 book The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation. This very large folio (each is approximately two-feet tall and three-feet wide when opened) contains signed original woodblock prints by modern Japanese printmakers Hiratsuka Un’Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, and Maki Haku.
For this project, the Michener Art Museum is engaging regional partners at the University of Pennsylvania to provide specific content-area expertise, with curation by the History of Art Department Chair, Julie Nelson Davis, and support from curatorial fellows Marina De Melo Do Nascimento, Maria Puzyreva, and Nicholas M Purgett.
Mid-Century to Manga: The Modern Japanese Print in America has been generously supported by the Bucks County Tourism Grant Program and the Michener Art Museum’s 35th Anniversary Initiative.
*Lunch is not included. However, snacks and refreshments may be purchased at the museum and there are many local restaurants in town.