DAHESH TRAVELS

Our website now follows our collection as it travels around the world. Please keep checking in to find out more about new exhibitions, loans and other news.

Previous Traveling Exhibitions

• Reconnecting East & West: Islamic Ornament in 19th Century Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University
  June 17 – Aug. 10, 2011
  The Gallery of Light, DUCTAC, Dubai, UAE .
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• The Essential Line: Drawings from the Dahesh Museum of Art
  Feb. 9, 2011 – March 24, 2011
  Lubin House, New York, NY.
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• Nineteenth-Century Drawings from the Dahesh Museum of Art Collection
  November 9, 2010 to January 9, 2011
  Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse University, New York

• Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France
  February 26 - April 28, 2010
  The Virtues of Rigorous Training for Aspiring Artists Revisited
  Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University Continue their Collaboration with Second Exhibition at Palitz Gallery.
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• Napoleon on the Nile
  October 6, 2009 - December 18, 2009
  R. H. Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
   
• Academic Allure: Art and Instruction in 19th- Century Paris
  From March 13 to April 19, 2009, Lebanon Valley College featured Academic Allure: Art and Instruction in 19th- Century Paris. Dr. Barbara Anderman, a specialist in French art and the history of the Academy in Paris, and Associate Professor of Art History at Lebanon Valley organized the show with works from the Museum's Collection.
   
• In Pursuit of the Exotic: Artists Abroad in 19th- Century Egypt and the Holy Land, Palitz Gallery, New York
  From March 24 through April 30, 2009
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• Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt, The Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York
  From January 29 to March 29, 2009
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• Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington State
  From August 30th, 2008 to January 4th, 2009
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• Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire From The Dahesh Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington State
  From September 20th, 2008 to January 4th, 2009
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UPCOMING LOANS

• The Epic and the Exotic: 19th Century Academic Realism from the Dahesh Museum of Art
  Jan. 14 – April 1, 2012
  Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA.

• Alma Tadema's Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granaries
  Orientalism and the Jews
  March 7 – July 8, 2012
  Musée d'art et d'historie du Judaïsme, Paris, France.
  
  
• Egyptomania
  April – December, 2013
  The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT
  
  
• Working Exhibition title: Rediscovering Egypt: The Collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art
  Dates to be determined
  Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York

LOANS

• William Bouguereau's Study for La Charité and The Water Girl
  
  Bouguereau and his Milieu
  March 31 – April 30, 2011
  Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY

• European Orientalists: From Delacroix to Kandinsky
  Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium: October 15, 2010 - January 9, 2011
  Kunsthalle der Hypno-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany: January 29, 2011 - May 1, 2011
  Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseilles, France: May 27, 2011 - Aug. 28, 2011
   
• The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme
  J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: June 15, 2010 - September 12, 2010
  Musée D'Orsay, Paris, France: October 18, 2010 - January 23, 2011
  El Museo de arte Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain: March 1, 2011 - May 22, 2011
   
• Europe's Exoticized East: Orientalist Art of the 19th Century
  Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: May 22, 2010 - September 6, 2010
   
• Enchantment
  Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT.
  November 4, 2009 - January 17, 2010
   
• French Paintings in the 19th Century, Academism and Modernism
  Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan and Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
  Cabanel's The Birth of Venus and Gérôme's Michelangelo Showing a Pupil the Belvedere Torso
  March 6, 2009 - Aug. 31, 2009
   
• Musée des Beaux-arts, Rennes, France
  Our painting Diana, the Huntress by Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920) was featured in The Strange Mister Merson, the first retrospective of the academic artist's oeuvre since his death.
   
• National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  A Pompeian Interior by Luigi Bazzani was included in the exhibition, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples, which explored the impact that the 18th-century excavations and rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum had on the art and culture of the modern world.
   
• The Royal Academy of Arts, London
  The Museum's J.W. Waterhouse oil sketch, Study for Dante and Beatrice, hangs alongside his other masterworks in J.W. Waterhouse (1849-1917): The Modern Pre-Raphaelite. On view now until September 13. It opens again in Montreal, Canada in late September 2009.