This information is current as of August 2000, and is subject to change. Please discard previous schedules. Members of the media may contact the Public Relations Office at 202.783.7373 for confirmation of information and photographic requests. As Art XII highlights rare examples from the collection, many of which have never been exhibited.
Delight brings together different visions of flowers, fruit, and garden.
The exhibition provides a comprehensive look at the deeply personal and poetic vision of one of the most important photographers working in Mexico today. The Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition and the accompanying publication are supported by the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture and its three sponsors, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Fundaci n Cultural Bancomer, and The Rockefeller Foundation, whose contributions make this program possible. Additional support for the exhibition was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. For the first time, approximately 37 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sketch books from private and public French collections, largely unavailable to American audiences, will be united with works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which has lent 32 artworks to the exhibition and tour as part of its collection-sharing program while the museum building is being renovated.