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Blanton Museum of Art

Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

February 5, 2017 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

In addition to two portraits by the artist Mary Beale, the Ransom Center’s old master painting St. Jerome in His Study will be exhibited in the newly renovated galleries of the University’s Blanton Museum of Art from February 2017 to February 2019. [Read more…] about Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

Filed Under: Art, Conservation Tagged With: Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Conservation, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Mark van Gelder, painting, St. Jerome, St. Jerome in His Study

From Austin to Venice Biennale: 5,614 miles of trucks, planes, and a ferry

June 11, 2015 - Jennifer Tisdale

Loading the Ferry in Venice. Image courtesy of Gabriela Truly, The Blanton Museum of Art

The Harry Ransom Center supports an active program of loans from its collections, balancing the task of preparing and processing materials for loan with its own exhibition program. The loans, which share the Center’s collections with a wider audience, are considered on the basis of their merit and contribution to the humanities.

Last year, more than 135 items were loaned to 16 institutions, placing the Ransom Center’s holdings in context with other collections throughout the U.S. and internationally.

One of the Center’s most recent loans is a nearly complete set of the photographs Walker Evans made for [Read more…] about From Austin to Venice Biennale: 5,614 miles of trucks, planes, and a ferry

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: Blanton Museum of Art, courier, Exhibitions, Gabriela Truly, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Loans, Okwui Enwezor, University of Texas at Austin, Venice Biennale, Walker Evans

Display highlights basketball photos in "Basketball: Power in Play"

September 18, 2012 - Jennifer Tisdale

Obstacle Course (Shimer College basketball team practice). Unidentified photographer, "New York Journal-American," January 26, 1964.

Basketball, which began as a game invented to occupy young, energetic boys within the confines of a gymnasium on rainy days, has come to be one of the most popular sports in American culture.

Basketball: Power in Play, a display of sports photographs from the Harry Ransom Center’s New York Journal-American collection, captures some of the key components of the game from the 1940s through the 1960s.

From September 18 through December 9, 2012, visitors will be able to view images depicting various perspectives on the game such as training and technique, women in basketball, wheelchair basketball, the Harlem Globetrotters, and images of incredible shots and blunders.

The 32 black-and-white photographs in the exhibition come from the New York Journal-American, which was published from 1937 to 1968. Soon after the newspaper’s demise, the Ransom Center gained ownership of the paper’s approximately two million prints and one million negatives. Many of the photographs in the display show original crop and edit marks used in the course of publication.

Geared toward sports enthusiasts, the rich history and engaging narratives embodied in the photo captions will be sure to entertain and amuse.

The display is one of several exhibitions and events across The University of Texas at Austin campus this fall capturing the spirit and history of basketball from its beginnings in a Massachusetts YMCA to the modern NBA.

Courtesy of Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, the University’s Blanton Museum of Art will be presenting James Naismith’s “Original Rules of Basket Ball,” the 1891 document that outlines the 13 original rules of the game. The rules will be exhibited alongside the works of contemporary artist Paul Pfeiffer in The Rules of Basketball: Works by Paul Pfeiffer and James Naismith’s Original Rules of Basket Ball, running through January 13, 2013.

The H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports will host a symposium during the fall 2012 semester about the history and cultural significance of basketball.

Former undergraduate intern Rachel Platis selected the content for the Ransom Center’s display.

The materials are on view in the Ransom Center’s lobby during exhibition gallery hours and in the third-floor Director’s Gallery, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Please click the thumbnails below to view full-size images.

 

"Clipping a Hawk on the Wing" (St. Louis Hawks vs. New York Knicks). "New York Journal-American," February 25, 1961.
“Clipping a Hawk on the Wing” (St. Louis Hawks vs. New York Knicks). “New York Journal-American,” February 25, 1961.
Obstacle Course (Shimer College basketball team practice). Unidentified photographer, "New York Journal-American," January 26, 1964.
Obstacle Course (Shimer College basketball team practice). Unidentified photographer, “New York Journal-American,” January 26, 1964.
"Winning Combination" (high-school basketball champions dinner). Sheldon Gottesman for the "New York Journal-American," April 6, 1960.
“Winning Combination” (high-school basketball champions dinner). Sheldon Gottesman for the “New York Journal-American,” April 6, 1960.
Clair Bree (left) and Howard Cann diagram play for a basketball clinic. "New York Journal-American," December 12, 1948.
Clair Bree (left) and Howard Cann diagram play for a basketball clinic. “New York Journal-American,” December 12, 1948.
Violet Rays conduct first "New York Journal-American" basketball clinic for youth. Frank Jurkoski for the "New York Journal-American," November 24, 1963.
Violet Rays conduct first “New York Journal-American” basketball clinic for youth. Frank Jurkoski for the “New York Journal-American,” November 24, 1963.
"Look at the Basket" (New York University's Violet Rays at basketball clinic). "New York Journal-American," April 2, 1962.
“Look at the Basket” (New York University’s Violet Rays at basketball clinic). “New York Journal-American,” April 2, 1962.
Long Island University students protesting ban on sports following basketball scandal. Ed Pickwood for "New York Journal-American," ca. 1951.
Long Island University students protesting ban on sports following basketball scandal. Ed Pickwood for “New York Journal-American,” ca. 1951.
"On a Tour of Europe" (Harlem Globetrotters and Pope John XXII). Unidentified photographer, "New York Journal-American," August 9, 1961.
“On a Tour of Europe” (Harlem Globetrotters and Pope John XXII). Unidentified photographer, “New York Journal-American,” August 9, 1961.

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: basketball, Basketball: Power in Play, Blanton Museum of Art, David G. Booth, H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, Harlem Globetrotters, James Naismith, Massachusetts YMCA, NBA, New York Journal-American, Original Rules of Basket Ball, Paul Pfeiffer, Photography, Rachel Platis, Suzanne Deal Booth, The University of Texas at Austin, wheelchair basketball

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