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Albright-Knox Art Gallery Telephone (716)882-8700 January [logo] HOURS Gallery: Sunday: 12-5p.m Tuesday-Saturday: 10a.m.-5p.m Closed New Year's Day Library: Tuesday-Friday 2-5p.m Saturday:1-3 p.m Or by appointment Education Department Loan Service: Tuesday-Friday 12-4:40p.m. Saturday 9a.m.-noon An ADMISSION FEE is requested on a voluntary basis Children's Room: Sunday: 1-5p.m. Saturday:10a.m-4 p.m. Saturday,January 3:1-4 p.m. Member's Gallery: Sunday:2-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday: 1-4 p.m. Garden Restaurant: Sunday: 12-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday: 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS: The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo Society of Artists and Patteran Artists (both in North Temporary Exhibition Galleries, through January 4) Josef Albers: Prints from the "Formulation-Articulation" Portfolios (George Mathews Gallery, Gallery 16 through January 4) Christmas Tree with 18th Century Neapolitan Crèche Figures (Sculpture Court through January 6) Japanese Prints: 18th-mid 19th centuries (Members' Gallery through January 18) Art Work from The Nichols School (Education Department through January 4) TWO PORTFOLIOS: Robert Goodnough: Portfolio ONETWOTHREE Nicholas Krushenick: Fire/Flash/Fire/Fade (Garden Restaurant through January 4) January Thurs. 1 GALLERY CLOSED Sat. 3 13th ANNUAL FAMILY HOLIDAY FESTIVAL: THEATRE FOR THE FAMILY: Auditorium, 11 a.m. The Janet McDonald Puppet Theatre: and 2:30 p.m. Santa and the Little Girl Hansel And Gretel (admission 50¢) No Saturday Creative Art Classes today. They will resume January 10 Sun. 4 GALLERY TALK: 2:30 p.m. No Sunday Creative Art Classes today. They will resume January 11 Tues. 6 JUNIOR GROUP FILMS: Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. High Noon (1952) Fred Zinneman (by series subscription only, pro-rated subscriptions available at door) Fri. 9 JUNIOR GROUP FILMS: Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. (repeat of Thursday night's program) Sun. 11 GALLERY TALK: 2:30 p.m. Tues. 13 COFFEE HOUR AND DISCUSSION: 10 a.m. American Painting: 18th and 19th centuries Christopher B. Crosman, Assistant Curator of Education OPENING OF EXHIBITION: Education Department Art Work from the City of Tonawanda Public Schools (through February 8) Wed. 14 LECTURE: Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. ROBERT MANGOLD, painter, will discuss his work (in cooperation with Hallwalls - partially funded by the Committee for the Visual Arts, Inc.) Thurs. 15 EVENING FOR NEW FILM: Auditorium, 8 p.m. Films by Morgan Fisher (co-sponsored by Media Study, Ins, and the Center for Media Study, SUNYAB) informal discussion with the artist will follow Sat. 17 CHILDREN'S FILM SERIES: Auditorium, 1 p.m. The Point sponsored by the Junior Group (admission 50¢) MEMBERS' PREVIEW — DINNER: 7 - 11 p.m. American Folk Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou (through February 22) Sun. 18 OPENING OF EXHIBITION: Members' Gallery American Folk Art (through February 22) GALLERY TALK: 2:30 p.m. FILM SERIES: Auditorium, 3:45 p.m. Kenneth Clark's Romantic versus Classic Art II. Jacques-Louis David Gian-Battista Piranesi Henry Fuseli (by series subscription only) Tues. 27 OPENING OF EXHIBITION: Education Department Art Work from the Sweet Home Central School Disctrict (through February 22) Sat. 31 SATURDAY MORNING LECTURES: Auditorium, 10:30 a.m. 200 Years of Art in America I. Architecture: 17th and 18th centuries Charlotte B. Johnson, Curator of Education CHILDREN'S FILM SERIES: Auditorium, 1 p.m. Indian Paint sponsored by the Junior Group (admission 50 cents) EXHIBITION Ammi Phillips Andrew Jackson Pen Broeck 1834, Hudson, New York oil on canvas, 39" x 34" Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Tillou. American Folk Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou opens on Saturday, January 17, 1976, with a special dinner preview sponsored by the Members' Council. Included in the exhibition are 150 works -- mostly newly discovered -- dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Tillous, in their collecting, have never sought previously acknowledged "masterpieces" but rather have gathered works of high quality which they feel typify the spontaneity, strength and breadth of the folk artists' production. An illustrated catalogue of the exhibition is available at The Gallery Shop. A related exhibition, American Folk Art, opens to the public in the Members' Gallery on Sunday, January 18, 1976. Guests attending the Saturday night preview will be able to visit this exhibition before its public opening. RECENT ACQUISITIONS Marius de Zayas (Mexican, 1880-1961) Portrait of Paul Haviland, ca. 1914 charcoal on paper, 24 1/2" x 17 5/8" James C. Forsyth and Charlotte A. Watson Funds With the acquisition of Marius de Zayas' Portrait of Paul Haviland, ca. 1914, the Gallery has significantly complemented its collection of early 20th century avant-garde art in America. De Zayas was born in Mexico in 1880 and, after a short period of study in Europe, emigrated to New York in 1907, where he was employed as an illustrator and caricaturist for the New York World and became deeply involved in the progressive art circles revolving around Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery 291. His caricatures depicting various New York personalities were exhibited at 291; he published an influential book on African Negro Art, and he later opened two galleries of his own. His most important contribution lies, however, in his abstract caricature portraits, as exemplified by the Portrait of Paul Haviland. These works are among the earliest expressions of pure abstract art in America, and share certain stylistic features with the work of artists such as O'Keeffe, Hartley and Dove. As De Zayas himself wrote (in Camera Work, April 1914), he sought to represent his subject's "psychological self" and to this end depicted "The spirit of man by algebraic formulas, his material self by geometrical equivalents, and his initial force (which binds the spirit and the matter together) by trajectories." The result is a geometricized mask-like symbol which, through its dark shadings, takes on a strong mystical aspect. Such works anticipated and perhaps influenced Picabia's Dada portraits of 1915. Our drawing was illustrated in a special article on De Zayas which appeared in Camera Work magazine in 1914. The drawing is now on view. (Dr. Steven A. Nash, Research Curator)