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SUMMARY:Helaine Blumenfeld: Tree of Life
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Gainsborough and Helaine Blumenfeld\, though separated by time\, meet in their poetic sensibility\, rhythmic fluidity of form\, in dream-like imagery and the universal language of beauty.\nWhen the art historian Michael Rosenthal described Gainsborough as “one of the most technically proficient and\, at the same time\, most experimental artists of his time“\, he could have also been describing Blumenfeld today. A master marble carver\, testing the limits of her material\, Blumenfeld creates impossibly thin\, undulating structures through a profound understanding of the boundaries of her materials. Like Gainsborough and his lightbox\, Blumenfeld’s luminous works celebrate the light within. In bronze\, she works with her foundry in Italy on innovations including experimental patinas using silver nitrate. \nHer sculptures often resemble organic\, figurative or botanical forms that hover in that tantalising zone between abstraction and figuration. For Gainsborough’s House\, there will be three sculptures in the historic garden and one overlooking from inside. \nHelaine Blumenfeld\, OBE\, is one of the most esteemed sculptors working in the UK today. Born in 1942 in New York\, she studied philosophy at Columbia University before moving to Paris to train in sculpture at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière\, with Ossip Zadkine. Blumenfeld carves in marble and wood and casts in bronze. \n \nImage credit (above): Flight © Gainsborough’s House | Jackie Mellor Photography
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LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough at Home
DESCRIPTION:In 2027 the National Centre for the artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88) – Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury\, Suffolk – will mark his tercentenary with a landmark exhibition at his birthplace\, Gainsborough at Home.\nThe exhibition will celebrate Gainsborough’s extraordinary artistic achievements with an emphasis on Suffolk—the landscapes and portraits he made in his home county and the profound influence Suffolk exerted on his art throughout his life. It will\, however\, encompass the full arc of his career and artistic development. \nStaged in award-winning new galleries\, the exhibition will bring together over 90 paintings\, prints and drawings by one of Britain’s most influential artists. \nIt will be complemented by further displays of his artwork\, personal artefacts in the adjoining house where he was born and contemporary responses by artists Claire Partington and Daniel & Clara. \nHighlights of the exhibition will be the iconic paintings\, Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) and Cornard Wood (1748)\, kindly lent by the National Gallery\, London. Both capture the woods and fields surrounding Sudbury just visible from the top floor of the museum. It will be the first time they have been publicly exhibited in Gainsborough’s hometown. \nThe National Gallery have also generously agreed to lend Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter (c. 1748)\, and the Painter’s Daughters with Cat (c. 1760–61). \nFurther key loans have been secured from Tate Britain\, the Royal Collection Trust\, The National Galleries of Scotland\, the Ashmolean Museum\, Kenwood House\, the Fitzwilliam Museum\, Colchester + Ipswich Museums\, Waddesdon Manor and a number of significant private collections. \nGainsborough at Home is an unprecedented opportunity to see a large-scale exhibition of Gainsborough’s work at his birthplace\, surrounded by the historic market town and countryside that inspired him. \nIt will be accompanied by a full programme of activities and events and happen in tandem with a major Gainsborough exhibition at Tate Britain. Further details about the season will be announced in the autumn. \nCalvin Winner\, Director of Gainsborough’s House said “Thomas Gainsborough is a much-loved artist whose paintings are rightly celebrated across the globe. His great innovation was to paint his own Suffolk landscapes rather than idealised classical scenes. Gainsborough was therefore a pioneer of the landscape art tradition in Britain. His second great innovation was to paint portraits of people as they wanted to be seen rather than in some invented classical pose. We are delighted to mark the 300th anniversary with a landmark exhibition\, here at the birthplace of this great British artist.” \nImage (detail):\nThomas Gainsborough (1727–88)\nMr and Mrs Andrews\, c. 1750\nOil on canvas\nNational Gallery\, London \n 
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LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
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