far-flung places and create visual diaries of
the places that they’ve been. They’d often take
paint kits or cameras or different ephemera,
or write postcards, and take them back with
them to their studios and create final works.”
Imagery of the American West makes
up about half of the show, and hones in
on places such as the Grand Canyon and
Yellowstone. The show features historic and
contemporary works, as well as multiple
pieces of the same destinations. “We have
them all within the same museum space,
creating new conversations about how artists
will travels to the places,” Brindza explains.“We have a Thomas Moran lithograph of
the Grand Canyon next to a contemporary
piece of the Grand Canyon. It’s creating new
conversations between not only the older and
newer pieces, but how artists continue to go to
these landmarks.”
Along with those two Grand Canyon
pieces will be a winter scene of the illustrious
destination by Clark Hulings and Peter
Holbrook’s Isis Temple and Colonnade, which
is a more focused take on the terrain.
There also will be works on view by John
Mix Stanley that show Western expansion and
exploration through the railroad, as well as
pieces by Eanger Irving Couse and Fremont
Ellis that depict life in the Southwest.
Travelogue remains on view through
September 29.MUSEUM PREVIEW
Tucson
Travelogue: Grand
Destinations and
Personal Journeys
Through September 29, 2019
Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main
Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 624-2333,
http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.orgFritz Kaeser (1910-1990), Ranchos de Taos Mission, 1942, gelatin silver print, 9¼ x 12¼”. Collection of the Tucson Museum of Art. Gift of the
artist. 1986.5.5.
Peter G. Holbrook (1940-2016), Isis Temple and Colonnade, 1995, oil on canvas, 30 x 45”.
Collection of the Tucson Museum of Art. Virginia Johnson Fund. 1995.48. © Peter G. Holbrook.