About
Félix Buhot: Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century France
This project was developed in collaboration with the Palmer Museum of Art and the Visual Resources Centre in the Department of Art History at Penn State University to coincide with an exhibition of works by Félix Buhot at the Palmer. This selection of prints, drawings, and paintings, on loan from a private collection, offers a rare chance to view works that span Buhot's career and the accompanying exhibition contextualizes these images and makes them accessible anywhere.
Fantasy and Reality: The World According to Félix Buhot
On view at the Palmer Museum of Art, September 29–December 15, 2019
Félix Buhot was one of the most original printmakers in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This exhibition, selected entirely from a private collection, examines the full range of Buhot’s graphic effort, from his highly imaginative intaglios to the more somber lithographs, a medium to which he turned near the end of his career. Also included are several drawings and paintings related to the prints. This exhibition is organized by the Palmer Museum of Art.
The Palmer Museum of Art
The Palmer Museum of Art is a free-admission arts resource for Penn State University and surrounding communities in central Pennsylvania. With a collection of 8,850 objects representing a variety of cultures and spanning centuries of art, the Palmer is the largest art museum between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
Contributors
Theresa A. Cunningham is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Penn State, the Margaret R. Mainwaring Fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a former Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Palmer Museum. Her research explores the ramifications of technology and infrastructure on the experience of space within newly-formed locations in nineteenth-century Paris.
Hyoungee Kong is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Penn State and a former Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Palmer Museum. Her research examines Japonisme's queer promises to late nineteenth-century middle-class French women, providing them with occasions to reimagine their bodies and bodily pleasures outside the French bourgeois norms.
Special Thanks To:
Claire Heidenreich