'Art Everywhere U.S.' Unveils 58 Works To Be Displayed In Free, Open-Air Galleries

 

Art Everywhere US, an initiative that will transform billboards, bus shelters, subway platforms, movie theaters and other public spaces into free, open-air art galleries across the country in early August, announced the artworks it will display at the recent annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Dallas.

 

Voting for the artworks began in April on the initiative’s Web site; the public could register its preferences among 100 works nominated by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art inWashington and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, all collaborating with the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.

 

The painting that received the most votes was Edward Hopper’s 1942 Nighthawks, from the Art Institute of Chicago.  Other works that will be featured range from Gilbert Stuart’s 1821 portrait of George Washington, from the National Gallery; Frederic Edwin Church’s 1861 The Iceberg, from the Dallas Museum of Art; and 1893 paintings by Mary Cassatt from the Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery; to Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1912 triptych window from the Avery Coonley Playhouse, from the Art Institute of Chicago; Ed Ruscha’s 1968 Hollywood, from LACMA; and Cindy Sherman’s 2008 untitled self-portrait from the Whitney.

 

The chiefs of the five museums involved with the initiative said the 58 works it will feature ”will bring us face to face with the story of our nation, told by the visionaries who captured our essence at the time they lived and worked, and who to this day compel us to find our place in the evolving story of America. From a stained glass window to a prairie quilt, the two-dimensional artworks in this wide-ranging selection invite reflection on the vernacular of American art, from high art to the everyday, from East to West, and from our origins to the present moment.”

 

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