The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, through March 13, 2011

Albrecht Dürer, Knot with a Heart-Shaped Shield, c. 1507, Woodcut. Sterling and Francine Art Institute 1968.280


The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer


Curated by Jay Clark
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
November 14, 2010, through March 13, 2011

In The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer, the Clark produced a most enjoyable exhition, which should prove a fertile opportunity for Williams undergraduates and the general public to discover an important body of work from one of the West's very great artists, Albrecht Dürer. Very few American museums can boast the depth in their holdings of a single artist to attempt this. In Abstract Expressionism the Museum of Modern Art has, with one of the strongest areas of their collection, just created the kind of experience one might find at the Prado or the Uffizi. The Clark's holdings of Dürer prints are so extensive and of such high quality that they make it possible to offer a survey of similar quality, with 75 of 300 prints in all.  The Clark possesses most of Dürer's subjects and many impressions are of the highest quality. Hence, this exhibition is an ideal opportunity to get to know a body of work that occupies a central place in western culture

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller