Transient Effects
Online exhibition
On 21st August 2017, the first full solar
eclipse of this century will be visible in the
United States. Princeton University is
celebrating this historical event with a
substantial online exhibition. This brings
together experts from the sciences and art
history to present the unique paintings of
Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934) and the
story of the artist who created them. Butler
was a portrait and ‘celestial landscape’ artist
and a graduate of Princeton University’s first
School of Science. He painted a new kind of
'space' portrait, of a very unusual sitter: the
total solar eclipse. With remarkable
accuracy, he captured those rare seconds
when the moon disappears into darkness —
crowned by the flames of the sun, whose
brilliant colors had eluded the new art of
photography. In so doing so, he joined the
ranks of artists and other image-makers who
have struggled to translate un-seeable or
fleeting natural phenomena into visual form
for science and for public knowledge.
http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/transient-
effectsSF Cartoon Art Museum opens
Spring 2017, San Francisco, USA
Amid the bustle of San Francisco's hot real
estate market, the city's Cartoon Art Museum
has recently had to move. But in Spring
2017 the Museum will have a grand re-
opening in a new 8,000 square-foot space
inside a historic brick building at 781 Beach
Street. The museum is the only one in the
western United States dedicated to the
preservation and exhibition of cartoon art in
all its forms. The new home is just one block
away from Aquatic Park and the Maritime
Museum, and should be in a fine location for
tourists. Over the past three decades, the
museum has produced nearly 200 exhibitions
and released more than 20 publications.
Among the hundreds of artists that have
been featured are Robert Crumb, Will Eisner,
Dave Gibbons, Edward Gorey, Jack Kirby,
John Romita, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz and
Wally Wood. The museum’s Sparky Awards,
named for Peanuts creator Charles “Sparky”
Schulz, have been awarded to more than 20
cartoonists.