MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART, MINNESOTA
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise” is on view at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi, through Sunday, July 8. The group exhibition, which commemorates the bicentennial anniversary of Mississippi’s statehood, brings together around 175 works by more than 100 artists that chart the history of the state. Among the included artists are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Benny Andrews, Danny Lyon, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, McArthur Binion, John Steuart Curry, Eudora Welty, Bruce Davidson, John James Audubon, and Joanna Underwood Blackburn.
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Benny Andrews, Mississippi River Bank, from the series "Trail of
Tears," 2005, oil on canvas with painted fabric collage.
COURTESY MICHAEL ROSENFELD GALLERY, LLC, NEW YORK
Bob Thompson, Homage to Nina Simone, 1965, oil on canvas.
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART, MINNESOTA
Joanna Underwood Blackburn, Art of Our Ancestors, 2016, porcelain, smoke fired with cedar branches.
COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST, DAVIS OKLAHOMA
McArthur Binion, DNA: Black Painting: IV, 2015, oil paint stick, graphite, and paper on board.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GALERIE LELONG & CO., NEW YORK
Sam Gilliam, Red April, 1970, acrylic on canvas.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART, IOWA CITY
Jeffrey Gibson, Sharecropper, 2015, repurposed punching bag, glass beads, oxidized copper beads, artificial sinew, and steel.
COURTESY THE ARTIST
Eudora Welty, Saturday Strollers, Grenada, 1934, gelatin silver print.
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART, JACKSON
Louis Joseph Bahin, Natchez Under the Hill, 1852, oil on canvas.
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
William Aiken Walker, Cotton Gin in Adams County, Mississippi, 1883, oil on canvas.
COLLECTION OF NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART, LOUISIANA
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change (National Guardsmen protecting the Freedom Riders during their ride from Montgomery to Jackson, Mississippi, 1961, gelatin silver print.
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Joe Overstreet, The Basket Weavers, 2003, oil on stainless steel wire cloth.
COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST, KENKELEBA HOUSE, NEW YORK
George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877–78, oil on canvas.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Danny Lyon, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963 (printed 2002-8), gelatin silver print.
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Richmond Barthé, Awakening of Africa, 1959 (cast 1977), bronze.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART, HATTIESBURG
John James Audubon, Wild Turkey Cock, Hen, and Young, 1826, oil on canvas.
COLLECTION OF ROGER OGDEN, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Eudora Welty, Tomato packers’ recess, Crystal Springs, 1935–36, gelatin silver print.
COLLECTION OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART, JACKSON
Bradley Phillips, Leontyne Price, 1963, oil on canvas.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C.
James Dallas Parks, Riverman on the Mississippi, 1940, oil on canvas.
MUSCATINE ART CENTER, IOWA
John McCrady, Oxford on the Hill, 1938, oil on canvas.
COLLECTION OF THE CITY OF OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI
Randy Hayes, House (Victorian) on Mound (Mississippian), 2015, oil and photograph on canvas.
COLLECTION OF ELLEN AND EASON LEAKE, RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI
Theora Hamblett, Hamblett Hill, 1965, oil on canvas.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM, BEQUEST OF THEORA HAMBLETT
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change (Freedom Riders), 1961, gelatin silver print.
COLLECTION OF THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
George Catlin, Mó-sho-la-túb-bee, He Who Puts Out and Kills, Chief of the Tribe, 1834, oil on canvas.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. GIFT OF MRS. JOSEPH HARRISON JR.
John Steuart Curry, Hoover and the Flood, 1940, oil on panel.
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Natchez, Mississippi, United States, May 02, 1947,
printed 1970s, gelatin silver print.
COURTESY FONDATION HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, PARIS
Jason Bouldin, Portrait of Medgar Wiley Evers, 2013, oil on canvas.
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART, JACKSON
Installation view of "Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise," 2017–18, at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
JULIAN RANKIN/COURTESY MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART
Installation view of "Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise," 2017–18, at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
JULIAN RANKIN/COURTESY MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART