Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Clarence H. White

    Clarence H. White

    Based on major collections of Clarence H. White’s prints and archives owned by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and supplemented by loans from other museums and private collections, Clarence H. White and His World highlights...
  • The Rouge: Michael Kenna

    The Rouge: Michael Kenna

    It is with Kenna’s images of the Rouge that many of the artist’s longstanding photographic concerns—photographing under low-light conditions or at night, an interest in the strong contrast between the linearity of the built environment and the effacing atmosphere around...
  • Collecting African American Art

    Collecting African American Art

    In acquiring prints and drawings by African American artists, the goal has been to provide a rich cross section of figurative and abstract images that explore the black experience from a variety of perspectives, past and present.
  • Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

    Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

    A magnificent sixteenth-century painting by the Italian master Perino del Vaga— The Adoration of the Shepherds— recently entered the Museum’s collections as a gift from George R. Goldner, Graduate School Class of 1972. One of the few works by this...
  • New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

    New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

    The Princeton University Art Museum has in its care a small but exceptional collection of Northwest Coast Native art. Thanks to a few prominent individuals and a well-funded survey expedition, the collection grew from nothing to nearly eight hundred objects...
  • Rouge: Michael Kenna

    Rouge: Michael Kenna

    The British photographer Michael Kenna began his own work with the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1992 as an homage to Sheeler. What Kenna has called “pilgrimages” to sites where other photographers have worked helped him develop his own...
  • Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

    Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

    One of the most successful and influential self-taught amateur photographers was Clarence H. White (1871–1925), who rose from modest origins in Newark, Ohio, to become an internationally known art photographer and teacher. Clarence H. White and His World celebrates the...
  • The Art of Calligraphy

    The Art of Calligraphy

    The Art Museum’s collection of Chinese calligraphy may be considered one of the finest outside of Asia. Its formation is primarily the legacy of John B. Elliott and Wen C. Fong, two Princetonians who first met as members of the...
  • The Language of Portraiture

    The Language of Portraiture

    The influential seventeenth-century artist Charles Le Brun posited that facial expressions make visible the movements of the heart and effects of the passions, while bodily actions convey passions of the soul. This idea that there is a language spoken by...
  • Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

    Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

    British art is the focus of this summer’s special exhibition, which features more than one hundred rarely seen treasures from the renowned collection of some 10,000 works on paper in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.