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<p>Jean-François Millet was committed to the role of art in representing agricultural practice and peasant life in the nineteenth century. Two issues significant to nineteenth-century social history that intersect in his study of rural life include the status of the working classes and the position of women. In the prints pictured here, Millet depicts women outside in pastoral fields as well as within humble interiors, performing childcare and domestic crafts such as knitting. Millet portrays the female figure as nurturer and dutiful laborer, emphasizing ideological definitions of femininity and virtue. In nineteenth-century France amid the Industrial Revolution, the peasant woman embodied a positive image associated with a return to innocence. Identified with the uncorrupted realm of nature, the pastoral woman symbolizes the personification of sanctity in opposition to the perceived moral threat of the urban woman, as well as that of the urban environment to a woman’s innocence. The intimate prints emphasize the acts of spinning, sewing, or knitting, and caregiving as devotional, quasi-religious activities, connecting holiness to rural and domestic labor.</p> <p><p>Image credit: Jean-François Millet, <em>La Cardeuse (The Woolcarder), </em>1855-1856. Etching on laid paper. Henry Art Gallery Stimson Collection, gift of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, 77.129.</p></p>
Viewpoints

A Dialogue Between Jean-François Millet and Jeanne Dunning

Spring - Fall 2020
<p>Aidan Park,&nbsp;<em>Untitled Self-Portrait,&nbsp;</em>2020. Oil on canvas.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist.</p>
Online Presentations

Henry Teen Art Collective: Self Portraits

Summer/Fall 2020
Exhibitions

Set in Motion: A Public Art Exhibition – Call to Artists

Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
Talks & Performances

Bugs & Beasts Before the Law Colloquium

10/22/20
Programs

Migration, Art, and Politics Film Screening: Border South/Frontera Sur

10/25/20
<p> James Turrell. <em>Light Reign (Exterior detail)</em>. 2003. Permanent skyspace and exterior illumination work. Copyright: James Turrell. Photo credit: Lara Swimmer.</p>
Permanent Installations
Light Reign: James Turrell Skyspace
Ongoing
Upcoming
Talks & Performances

Migration, Art, and Politics Lecture: Can Art Reduce Border Violence? A Discussion with Raúl Paz Pastrana and Jason de León  

10/29/20
Talks & Performances

Migration, Art, and Politics Lecture: Can Art Reduce Border Violence? A Discussion with Raúl Paz Pastrana and Jason de León  

10/29/20
Families

ArtVentures: Día de los Muertos - Ancestral Dance with Alicia Mullikin

11/01/20
Programs

Re/frame: Still Motion (noon session)

11/19/20
Programs

Re/frame: Still Motion (evening session)

11/19/20
Programs

Re/frame: All Together Now (noon session)

12/17/20
Programs

Re/frame: All Together Now (evening session)

12/17/20
<p>Bambitchell. Set Documentation of <em>Bugs &amp; Beasts Before the Law. </em>2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Florian Clewe.<br /> </p>
Exhibitions

Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

Upcoming
<p>Honoré Daumier, <em>Le Ventre Législatif</em>, Henry Art Gallery, Gift of Albert A. Feldmann, 2018.357. </p>
Exhibitions

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

Upcoming
<p>Brittney Leeanne Williams,&nbsp;<i>Our Horizon</i>, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Collection of Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist&nbsp;and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photo: RCH Photography. </p>
Exhibitions

Plural Possibilities & the Female Body

Upcoming
<p>Diana Al-Hadid. <em>Smoke Screen. </em>2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.</p>
Exhibitions

Diana Al-Hadid


Fall 2021
<p>Math Bass. <em>Newz!.</em> 2020. Gouache/canvas. Courtesy of the artist.<br></p>
Exhibitions

Math Bass

Fall 2021

Past

Programs

Re/frame: Abandoned (evening session)

10/15/20
Programs

Re/frame: Abandoned (noon session)

10/15/20
Teens

Henry Teen Art Collective - Call for Applications

09/28/20
Talks & Performances

MELTED RIOT: SATURATION

09/26/20
Talks & Performances

MELTED RIOT: CMYK

09/19/20
Programs

Re/frame: Tell Me a Tale/Show Me a Story (evening session)

09/17/20
Programs

Re/frame: Tell Me a Tale/Show Me a Story (noon session)

09/17/20
Talks & Performances

MELTED RIOT: RGB

09/12/20
<p>Yes, that’s queer. You’re championing the underground. The forgotten ones. The forgotten rooms. You’re taking full color photographs of the overlooked parts. Look up, you missed something. Look behind you, you forgot to put someone in the picture. Look at what you’re missing. Who’s not here? Who should be in the room?</p> <p><p>Referenced Image: William Eggleston,&nbsp;<em><a href="https://collections.henryart.org/detail.php?term=eggleston&module=objects&type=keyword&sortby=maker&sortdir=asc&t=objects&kv=21766&record=3&module=objects">Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi)</a></em>, 1973, printed 1980.&nbsp;Dye transfer print.&nbsp;Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company,&nbsp;97.56.</p></p>
Online Presentations

MELTED RIOT Color Swatch Catalog

09/09/20 – 09/27/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Still Life (evening session)

08/20/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Still Life (noon session)

08/20/20
Teens

ONLINE - Hugo House Scribes Summer Writing Camp

08/03/20
<p>Pieter J. L. van Veen, <em>La Rue Francois Millet, Barbizon, France</em>, 1915. Oil on canvas. Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry Collection, 26.136.</p>
Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: The Complexity of Landscape

Summer 2020
<p>April Gornik,&nbsp;<em>Desert Lake</em>, 1993. Soft-ground etching and aquatint on Japanese paper. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Burt and Jane Berman, 2001.191.</p>
Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: The Great Outdoors

Summer 2020
Families

ArtVenture Online: Outdoor Fairy Homes with Robyn Jordan

07/18/20