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Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents "The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol"

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Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), Early View of the Statue of Liberty, n.d.,, watercolor, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, 2005.0.16.3, © Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, Photo Chr. Kempf

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art will present "The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol," an examination of the Statue of Liberty’s enduring relevance in American visual culture and the evolution of its image from the 1870s to the present.

Bringing together nearly 100 artworks and objects from more than 70 artists, the exhibition explores the statue’s varied manifestations from artistic marvel and pop culture icon to symbol of immigration, patriotism, and resistance, and how successive generations of artists, including Pacita Abad, Benny Andrews, Edward Moran, Norman Rockwell, Nari Ward, and Andy Warhol, have represented its iconic form over the past 150 years.

The exhibition is anchored by a rare cast of French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s bronze sculpture Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty) (1894-1901), one of only five domestic-scale bronze reductions made during the artist’s lifetime.

Accompanying the exhibition is a community centered installation of ephemeral objects depicting the representation of the Statue of Liberty in popular culture. Members of the community are invited to loan items from their personal collections, from rubber ducks to dolls, for inclusion in the closing section of the exhibition.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art will present "The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol," an examination of the Statue of Liberty’s enduring relevance in American visual culture and the evolution of its image from the 1870s to the present.

Bringing together nearly 100 artworks and objects from more than 70 artists, the exhibition explores the statue’s varied manifestations from artistic marvel and pop culture icon to symbol of immigration, patriotism, and resistance, and how successive generations of artists, including Pacita Abad, Benny Andrews, Edward Moran, Norman Rockwell, Nari Ward, and Andy Warhol, have represented its iconic form over the past 150 years.

The exhibition is anchored by a rare cast of French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s bronze sculpture Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty) (1894-1901), one of only five domestic-scale bronze reductions made during the artist’s lifetime.

Accompanying the exhibition is a community centered installation of ephemeral objects depicting the representation of the Statue of Liberty in popular culture. Members of the community are invited to loan items from their personal collections, from rubber ducks to dolls, for inclusion in the closing section of the exhibition.

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WHERE

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/statue-liberty-bartholdi-warhol

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Admission is free.

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