A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works
from the Dahesh Museum of Art
January 19 - April 1, 2001
A lecture by the Director of the Dahesh
Museum on the Orientalist movement will be given on
February 18th, as part of the Whitehall
Lecture Series.
A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works from the Dahesh Museum
of Art features 50 works of art from the permanent collection
of the Dahesh Museum in New York by such noted Orientalist
painters as Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Arthur Bridgman,
Adolf Schreyer, Edwin Longsden Long, and Charles Theodore
Frère.
Orientalism was a favorite genre of painting popular with
Gilded Age art collectors and depicted romantic scenes of
the Near East: camel caravans, harems, and exotic costumes
and customs. Henry Flagler owned a number of Orientalist
paintings, displaying them at Whitehall and the Hotel Ponce
de Leon.
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