Ashmolean Museum: Features - Exhibitions

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Previous Exhibitions (1999)

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	No Day Without a Line The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 1880-1999		31st August to 31st October McAlpine Gallery
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	Techniques of Printmaking		31st August - 31st October Eldon Gallery
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	F.L. Griggs (1876-1938) The Architecture of Dreams		2nd November to 9th January 2000 Eldon Gallery
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	Scenes of Everyday Life: Dutch genre paintings from the Mauritshuis		9th November to 9th January 2000 McAlpine Gallery
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	The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection		6th October to 30th December Eric North Room
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	The Senior Collection of Indo-Scythian and Indo-Partian Coin		2nd November to 30th December Coin Room Lobby


Antiquities	Eastern Art	Heberden Coin Room	Western Art

The Department of Antiquities
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The Department of Eastern Art
Eric North Room: 5th November 1998 - 10th January 1999	Tiles from East and West
An exhibition which encompassed tilework traditions from the ancient Near East and the Classical world, from the Orient and the Islamic world, and from major European production centres from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Particular emphasis was placed on Dutch and English tiles depicting a wide range of Biblical scenes, including the Christmas story, and on English Delft from Bristol, London and Liverpool.
Eric North Room: 13th January - 28th February 1999	Chinese Silks
Large 18th and 19th century silk hangings from the Museum's collections. The bright colours and auspicious motifs make this an ideal subject to coincide with the New Year. The exhibition also included a smaller embroidery depicting next year's animal, the Tiger.
Eric North Room: 3rd March - 2nd May 1999	Buddhist Art from Tibet The E.M. Scratton Collection
Mr E.M. Scratton's extensive collection of Tibetan Buddhist art, formed in the 1950's and 60's, has been on loan to the Museum for many years, but for reasons of space only small parts of it have been displayed at one time. The collection is notable for its rich and diverse representation of the arts of thangka (scroll) painting, bronze-casting, metalwork and ivory and bone carving.
Eric North Room: 4th - 30th May 1999	Paintings by Contemporary Islamic Artist -- Tajammul Hussain
The artist will lecture on 4th May on Quranic Paintings.
Eric North Room: 1st - 27th June 1999	Paintings by Chen Chi-Kwan
Chen Chi-Kwan was born in Peking in 1921, and has since lived in east China, Taiwan and the United States. He studied architecture in both China and the US before turning to painting, and since the early 1950's has enjoyed success in both fields. His paintings are traditional in format, materials and subject matter, but unconventional in their use of vivid colour. All works in this exhibition were lent by the artist.
Eric North Room: 29th June - 19th September 1999	Japanese Warrior Prints by Kuniyoshi
In early nineteenth century Japan, following the popularity of the landscape woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, the printmakers of the Utagawa school, and especially their leader Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1767-1861), revived the cult of the Hero as subject-matter for their prints. Using both Chinese and Japanese legends and historical Japanese figures, they made dramatic depictions of individual warriors, usually as the heroic failure so beloved of Japanese stories, and of triptych scenes of battles and of threatening monsters.
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Heberden Coin Room
Spring 1999	Cromwell Exhibition
A small exhibition (one case) commemorating the birth of Oliver Cromwell 400 years ago in 1599 was on display until mid-June. It featured Cromwell's death mask, silver-gilt watch, privy seal, and a small selection of medals and coins representing his relatives, contemporaries, and significant events during his lifetime.
Early Summer 1999	English Civil War Coins
On display is the hoard of English Civil War coins recently discovered at Broughton Castle between Oxford and Banbury. The coins are thought to have been buried during the siege of the castle, by the Royalist army, shortly after the battle of Edge Hill.
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The Department of Western Art
Eldon Gallery: 5th January - 28th February 1999	Nineteenth Century French Drawings
Many recent acquisitions were included in the exhibition, together with a number of familiar major drawings. The highlight was the recently acquired portrait by Ingres of C.R. Cockerell, architect of the Ashmolean building.
McAlpine Gallery: 22nd December 1998 - 21st March 1999	The Painterly Brush: Oil sketches from the Ashmolean Museum
The nature and function of small, freshly-handled oil sketches was explored in this exhibition. Included were oil sketches on paper, canvas and board, dating from the 16th to the early 20th centuries with works by artists as varied as Domenico Tintoretto and Edward Lear.
Eldon Gallery: 2nd March - 30th May 1999	Recent Acquisitions: British Drawings and Watercolours of the 18th and 19th Centuries
The collection of British watercolours has had a number of notable additions in recent months, particularly from the bequest of Arthur David Murray, which includes works by J.M.W. Turner, Bonington and Lear.
McAlpine Gallery: 30th March - 13th June 1999	From Cozens to Palmer: Exhibition Watercolours from the Permanent Collections
An exhibition to mark the completion of a programme of conservation and remounting of the outsize watercolours in the Museum's collections. It drew attention to the importance of the "exhibition watercolour" as a feature of 19th Century British art at a time when watercolourists were attempting to rival contemporary painters in oil by creating large, ambitious, eye-catching works for exhibition.
Eldon Gallery: 8th June - 15th August 1999	The Prophetic Vision
An exhibition of prints and drawings on Christian themes, selected from the Museum's collection by Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery. The exhibition was held to coincide with the Conference Art and the Prophetic Vision organised by the Art and Christianity Enquiry which was held in Oxford from 19th-21st July. Neil MacGregor gave lecture in the Museum on 19th July on The Prophetic Vision.
Daniel Katz Gallery, 59 Jermyn Street, St James's, London: 7th June - 16th July 1999	Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Ashmolean Museum: The Fortnum Bequest
A Centenary Exhibition 1999 is the centenary of the death of C.D. Fortnum, described in his obituary in The Times as the "second Founder of the Ashmolean Museum". His remarkable collection of small Renaissance bronze sculptures was brought together in 1922 in the gallery that bears his name. The exhibition in London, was accompanied by a series of lectures by leading Renaissance specialists.
McAlpine Gallery: 2nd June - 22nd August 1999	Paintings by Leonid Pasternak
Leonid Pasternak was born in Odessa in 1862 and died in Oxford in 1945. This loan exhibition, from private collections, coincided with both the publication of Dr Rima Salys's catalogue of Pasternak's Russian paintings and the opening of a Pasternak Museum in the artist's former house, in Park Town, Oxford.
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