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Exhibitions

For more than 50 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.

The Scene Changes: Sculpture from the Collection

February 1, 2022 through July 2, 2022

Sculptors have increasingly infused process and form with expressions of social dynamics and examination of the past. Here, works selected from the tenure of each of Sheldon’s five directors present a changing scene as well as an evolution in the medium’s potential for narrative.
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Sheldon Treasures

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

From January to July 2022, Sheldon Treasures focuses on smaller gems that are exhibited less often but are no less impressive. Intimate-scale works by Romare Bearden, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Marsden Hartley, Norman Lewis, and Georgia O’Keefe, among others, are featured.
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Richard Diebenkorn: 41 Etchings Drypoints

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

In the 1960s, Richard Diebenkorn began experimenting with printmaking at Crown Point Press, eventually publishing a series of forty-one etchings and drypoints. Displayed in its entirety, the series offers a chance to observe the evolution of a master expanding his craft.
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Figurative Painting from the Collection

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

The large-scale, figurative works in this exhibition focus attention on artists who use their subjects as both the reason to paint and the embodiment of historical or personal moments.
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Photography from the Collection

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

Newly acquired works by Robert Adams and Robert Polidori are presented alongside collection stalwarts by Richard Avedon, Mark Ruwedel, and Alec Soth. Many of the images are large, demonstrating the roles scale and composition have played in changing the trajectory of photography as fine art.
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Sheldon Museum of Art Main Content

Exhibitions

The Scene Changes: Sculpture from the Collection

Sheldon Treasures

Richard Diebenkorn: 41 Etchings Drypoints

Figurative Painting from the Collection

Photography from the Collection

Fleeting Moments of Joy

The Road Less Traveled

Outdoor Sculpture