Exhibitions Archive
The Mark Lansburgh Collection
Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art
This collection, brought together by Mark Lansburgh, Dartmouth Class of 1949, is considered to have been the largest and most diverse of its type in private hands; it was acquired by Dartmouth College in 2007. Curated by Joe Horse Capture, this exhibition features drawings depicting both the struggle for cultural survival and the Native adaptation to an imposed non-Native lifestyle during a period of profound upheaval among the Plains peoples during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is presented in conjunction with a Leslie Center for the Humanities Institute entitled Multiple Narratives in Plains Ledger Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection.
Representations of the Glove as Fetish Object
Hand-In-Glove
Andy Warhol's American Dream
Follow the Money
A lively mixture of paintings, photographs, and prints juxtaposes Andy Warhol's (1928-1987) renderings of coins and dollar signs with images of people both famous and unknown. Art historian Trevor Fairbrother guest curates this exhibition in honor of the Andy Warhol Foundation's recent gift of 153 Warhol photos to the museum; Follow the Money also includes a rarely seen Warhol portrait of Dartmouth graduate Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York state governor (1959-73) and U.S. vice-president (1974-77).
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
Made in Hollywood
This exhibition celebrates the finest portraits and still photography produced during the heyday of the American film industry—1920 to 1960—now considered Hollywood’s Golden Age. It includes ninety-three photographs drawn from the London-based archive of the late author and collector John Kobal. This collection of the work of more than fifty photographers highlights portraits of film celebrities including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. Through the skill and inventiveness of these photographers, the faces of Hollywood’s greatest stars were memorialized for generations of movie audiences.