Word: ruisdael
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find in public museums. Often this approach alienates the public, but that need not be the case with intelligent work, suggests Curator of Drawings William Robinson. On the contrary, the most perfect exhibit ever at the Fogg, he says, was a collection of landscapes by Dutch master Jacob van Ruisdael that was shown in 1982. "Director Seymour Slive successfully combined a major artist's unfamiliar, though brilliant, work with exemplary scholarship, and 2,500 people came on a single afternoon...
...stories. The largest is the museum, which is, in turn, broken up into five pavilions set around a 1 1/2-acre garden courtyard, interconnected by walkways, some open air. The arrangement means that a visitor's tour will be punctuated by blasts of California blue sky and sunlight: Rembrandt and Ruisdael landscapes interspersed with real- life Pacific vistas...