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Artist unknown, Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Wabanaki or Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or New York, man's cap, about 1860, velvet, cotton cloth, glass beads, sequins, ivory, and thread. Purchased in memory of Stacey Coverdale, Class of 1988, made possible by an anonymous gift; 988.29.26943.
Mateo Romero, Night (Daryl Concha), 2009, oil and mixed media on panel. Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund; 2010.53.10.
Colossal head of a god, Dynasty 30 (380-343 BCE), granodiorite. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of the Estate of Mary C. Rockefeller, Class of 1930W, and her son, Rodman Rockefeller, Class of 1954; S.999.52. On view in the exhibition Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
The exhibitions program of the Hood Museum of Art represents one of the most important means by which the museum fulfills its primary mission: to foster a greater appreciation of the visual arts as a medium for the expression of ideas and cultural values. The exhibitions presented by the museum are intended to contribute to scholarship in art history and related disciplines and to offer insight into the artistic production of many different historical periods and cultures. In addition to ongoing displays from its permanent collection, the museum also presents approximately eight special exhibitions each year, covering a broad range of topics, and two teaching exhibitions each academic term. Organized in conjunction with Dartmouth College courses, these exhibitions are intended to facilitate the curricular use of the museum's collections.
October 8, 2011, through March 11, 2012
The fourth in a series of exhibitions presenting the Hood's extensive and varied holdings, Native American Art at Dartmouth surveys the breadth and depth of the permanent collection of indigenous art from North America, from the historic to the contemporary. Guest curators George Horse Capture, Joe Horse Capture, and Joseph Sanchez each contribute unique experience and perspective as well as a discerning eye in the presentation of the Hood's varied holdings of Native art. This exhibition reveals the transformation of traditional iconography and showcases the use of non-Native media in contemporary artistic expression and visual narrative, including the work of former Dartmouth Artists-in-Residence Allan Houser, Fritz Scholder, T. C. Cannon, and Bob Haozous.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by Mary Alice Kean Raynolds and David R. W. Raynolds, Class of 1949, Susan Ferris, the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund, and the Eleanor Smith Fund. A multimedia component was made possible by a gift from Stephen A. Lister, Class of 1963.
January 2011 through June 2012
The Yale University Art Gallery has generously loaned forty-six ancient Mediterranean objects to Dartmouth, as part of an initiative intended to foster intra- and inter-institutional collaboration and curricular connections. Four of these objects are now on view in the Kim Gallery. The selection includes a grave stele with a portrait of a boy from Roman North Africa and an early Christian glass cup depicting the raising of Lazarus, as well as two Egyptian mummy portraits with Roman influences. The rest of the loan objects are currently being used for teaching and research in the museum's Bernstein Study-Storage Center.
Generously funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Ongoing
Gutman Gallery
The collecting of ancient Egyptian antiquities began at Dartmouth in the nineteenth century with acquisitions of ethnographic, archaeological, and historical interest. This installation includes objects ranging from everyday artifacts to funerary sculptures.
Generously supported by Kate and Yaz Krehbiel, Class of 1991, Thayer 1992, and the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund.
Ongoing
At the entrance to the museum
A Space for Dialogue is a unique opportunity within Dartmouth's senior internship program, which includes museum positions in curatorial, public relations, and educational work. Interns choose objects from the Hood's permanent collection, write descriptions of the objects, design a space, create a brochure, and conduct a public gallery presentation. The program also allows students to develop art projects and displays within the Hood Museum of Art and on the Dartmouth College campus, creating "spaces for dialogue" between works of art and their viewers.
A Space for Dialogue, founded with support from the Class of 1948, is made possible with generous endowments from the Class of 1967, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Jr. '66, and Pamela J. Joyner '79.
Ongoing
Baker Library, Reserve Corridor
The Epic of American Civilization is an extensive mural cycle created by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco between 1932 and 1934. The mural is composed of twenty-four distinct panels depicting the history of the Americas from the Aztec migration into Mexico to the industrialization of modern society. Located in the reserve corridor of Baker Library, now the Orozco Room, these scenes cover nearly 3,200 square feet of wall space. The Epic of American Civilization is not only one of Orozco's finest creations and one of Dartmouth's most treasured works of art but also rightfully placed among the most exemplary works of mural painting in the nation.
