Provocative Women, Provocative Paintings Two exhibitions opening Saturday, January 29
Members-Only Preview Friday, January 28
 Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman
The portraits of Thomas Gainsborough made him perhaps the most famous British artist of the 18th century. Nobles, statesmen, musicians and the range of men and women of the period’s merchant class all sat for him. But it is his portraits of notorious society women which attracted the most attention. This exhibition explores the ways that women, art, and fashion came together to contribute to a new sense of women’s roles in society in the mid to late 18th century. Beyond adding to our understanding of portraiture, the exhibition affords the opportunity to see the brilliant painterly canvases of Gainsborough, one of the supreme technicians in the history of putting oil paint to canvas.
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place 2001-2010
Time and Place 2001-2010 explores the most recent work of Howard Hodgkin (born 1932), one of Great Britain’s most renowned painters of the later 20th century. Hodgkin’s work plays with the notion of “representational pictures of emotional situations,” and viewers delight in exploring the intense interactions of paint and surface. A brilliant colorist whose work lies between representation and abstraction, Hodgkin defies definitions.
This exhibition brings together 23 paintings and spans the last 10 years of the artist’s career. Collectively, their vigor and radical address confirm Hodgkin’s enduring contemporary significance. Read more.
  
Top Image: Thomas Gainsborough, Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse), 1760, oil on canvas, 77 5/8 x 53 1/8 in. (197.2 x 134.9 cm), Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Mary M. Emery (1927.396). Photo credit: Scott Hisey.
Bottom Image: Howard Hodgkin,Big Lawn, 2008-2010 Oil on wood, 42 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches, (107.3 x 122.6cm). ©Howard Hodgkin. Courtesy of the Artist. | 
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