European and American portraits and figure studies are featured in the gallery “Of Face and Form.” Portraits range from formal, commissioned paintings by the Dutch artist Nicolaes Maes and British portraitists George Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence, which memorialize the rich and powerful, to a pastel sketch by French Impressionist Pierre Renoir of his little son. A recent addition to the gallery is the preparatory study of Arabesque. This egg tempera and ink drawing on paper is exhibited with the fully realized 1941 egg tempera painting on panel by American artist Paul Cadmus (1904-1999).
PORTRAIT OF A CHILD
Pastel
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR, French (1841-1919)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bronstein
1970.538
PORTRAIT OF DORA DEAN GREISS
Oil on canvas, circa 1870s
JAMES THOMAS POINDEXTER (American 1832-1891)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
Gift of Mrs. Bessie Greiss Seegert
1949.83
THE LEAF GATHERER
Oil on canvas, 1904
CARLOS STRAGOALITI (Italian 1868-1915)
Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
Gift of Patricia A. Helm, Kim A. Gall, Jill E. Crawford, and Beth A. Burns through
the bequest of Dr. James H. Crawford
2003.33
