Tuesday 4 January 2011 Gainsborough exhibition to move to San Diego Museum of Art
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, on show at The San Diego Museum of Art from January 29, 2011 through May 1, 2011, explores the ways that women, art, and fashion came together to contribute to a new sense of women’s roles in society in the mid to late 18th century.
Many of Gainsborough's most ambitious portraits were of women with famous – even notorious – reputations; Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman highlights the ways in which Gainsborough combined his own artistic ambitions with the desire of these sitters to be seen as self-assured progressive women. Major lenders to the exhibition include the National Gallery and Tate Britain in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Huntington in Los Angeles. The exhibition also features a number of 18th-century dresses from the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman
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