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July 6, 2014

Conserving Works of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Rare and valuable Chinese paintings from the 16th through 19th centuries are being conserved and used for teaching and exhibitions at Scripps.

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April 7, 2014

Andy Warhol Prints Gifted to Scripps College

Andy Warhol, Ingrid Bergman (The Nun), 1983 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Following Andy Warhol’s lead, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. continues to surprise and delight. In 2008, Scripps College received an astonishing gift of 150 Warhol works, including 50 silver gelatin prints, as part of […]

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The Big Picture: Photographs and Archives of Aperture Cofounder Go to Scripps

Image: Edward Weston at Rhyolite, Nevada, 1948 by Dody Weston Thompson, Thompson Family Trust, c. 2012 Scripps College is delighted to announce the recent gift of 461 photographs by mid-century American photographer Dody Weston Thompson. A key participant in the West Coast photography movement, Weston Thompson was also a major chronicler of that era. The […]

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March 24, 2014

Drowning in Drought: Williamson Interns’ Exhibition at Gallery 112 through April 11

The Williamson Gallery’s interns have teamed up to create an exhibition on a theme of their choosing.

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February 13, 2014

Art Conservation the Topic of the Day on California Edition

Art Conservation was the topic of the day on the statewide public affairs program, “California Edition,” recently. Brad Pomerance, host of the TV program, interviewed Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Director and Associate Professor of Art History Mary MacNaughton ’70 on the topic. Professor MacNaughton discussed the many opportunities available at Scripps for art conservation students. […]

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November 14, 2013

Ansel Adams Museum Set: Stunning Addition to the Scripps Collection

Between 1978 and his death in 1984, Ansel Adams created a special inventory of photographic prints of the pieces he considered to be his finest and most iconic. One of these sets has found a home at Scripps.

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Williamson Awarded Grant from the NEA

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that the Williamson Gallery is among those organizations to receive an NEA Art Works grant to conserve four Chinese textiles in the Scripps art collection, the oldest dating from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century.

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January 15, 2013

The Williamson’s Year at a Glance, 2013 – 2014

So much is happening this coming year! See what the Gallery is up to: EXHIBITIONS Chasing Daylight: Philip Latimer Dike, 1927 – 1943 August 31 – October 13, 2013 Former Scripps professor Philip Dike contributed greatly to the California art scene of the 1930s and 1940s through his work in the California Style of watercolor painting. […]

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December 17, 2012

Clay’s Tectonic Shift Chosen as One of the Top 10 Exhibitions of 2012

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight has named “Clay’s Tectonic Shift” as one of the ten best art museum exhibits of 2012. In doing so, Knight places the Williamson Gallery’s exhibition alongside exhibits created by such notable institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Museum.

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