Art Auction 2014
Oceanside Museum of Art is proud to present NAKED: 20th Century Nudes from the Dijkstra Collection, the second exhibition within the Museum's "Collectors Initiative" launched in 2012. Opening on Thursday, November 22, 2014, NAKED is a revelation. Taken from the wide-ranging art collection of Bram and Sandra Dijkstra, this exquisite group of works contributes to the museum-wide focus on artwork concerning figurative and portrait themes occupying all five exhibition spaces at OMA this fall.
Over the past 100 years, the human body hasn't changed much, but you wouldn't know that from the diversity of artists' representations of it. This group of works spans the 20th century including figurative paintings, drawings, and photographs specifically featuring the nude human figure, created by a wide array of artists: from traditional works with a more painterly aesthetic such as F. Humphry Woolrych's The Music of Pan (1900), Elliott Daingerfield's Nymph at a Spring (1915) and Charles Hawthorne's Seated Nude (1921), as well as a variety of early modernist works by artists, including Isabel Bishop, Alexander Brook, Jan Matulka, Joseph Solman and Julio de Diego, Californians, including Boris Deutsch, Phil Paradise, Francis de Erdely, and Milford Zornes, and San Diego painters, including Belle Baranceanu, Dan Dickey, Ethel Greene, James Hubbell, Jean Swiggett, and James Aitcheson. The female form dominates the exhibition as the most frequently recurring motif throughout the works, while the male form provides a quieter presence, illustrating the typical ratio of male to female nudes throughout art history.
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Oceanside Museum of Art is proud to present NAKED: 20th Century Nudes from the Dijkstra Collection, the second exhibition within the Museum's "Collectors Initiative" launched in 2012. Opening on Thursday, November 22, 2014, NAKED is a revelation. Taken from the wide-ranging art collection of Bram and Sandra Dijkstra, this exquisite group of works contributes to the museum-wide focus on artwork concerning figurative and portrait themes occupying all five exhibition spaces at OMA this fall.
Over the past 100 years, the human body hasn't changed much, but you wouldn't know that from the diversity of artists' representations of it. This group of works spans the 20th century including figurative paintings, drawings, and photographs specifically featuring the nude human figure, created by a wide array of artists: from traditional works with a more painterly aesthetic such as F. Humphry Woolrych's The Music of Pan (1900), Elliott Daingerfield's Nymph at a Spring (1915) and Charles Hawthorne's Seated Nude (1921), as well as a variety of early modernist works by artists, including Isabel Bishop, Alexander Brook, Jan Matulka, Joseph Solman and Julio de Diego, Californians, including Boris Deutsch, Phil Paradise, Francis de Erdely, and Milford Zornes, and San Diego painters, including Belle Baranceanu, Dan Dickey, Ethel Greene, James Hubbell, Jean Swiggett, and James Aitcheson. The female form dominates the exhibition as the most frequently recurring motif throughout the works, while the male form provides a quieter presence, illustrating the typical ratio of male to female nudes throughout art history.
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