Now on view in an exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art, 100 artworks from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection help redefine American art.
, now on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art, an exhibition can be a profound statement about what defines a nation and its people.during a Thursday preview for members of the media, saying that while the more than 100 works of art on view can be enjoyed as a “visual feast,” rich layers of meaning await.
“When I started to acquire a very broad, diverse group of artists, it wasn’t a goal to have diverse representation. I was buying things that I thought were wonderful pieces of art,” she said. Sunflowers, a favorite subject of Van Gogh’s, greet museum visitors on the show’s opening wall. However, the 1880s paintingby Charles Ethan Porter is rendered in finer brushstrokes and a more somber palette than the Dutch master’s famously thick, many-hued impasto — and contains a different meaning.
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