AFA Summer 2021

Summer 20 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com HAPPENINGS Three Centuries of American Art Antiquities, European and American Masterpieces from The Fayez S. Sarofim Collection Through September 6, 2021 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX For information visit, mfah.org or call 713.639.7300 Three Centuries of American Art highlights more than 200 works from the private collection of Fayez S. Sarofim. The Houston-based collector has assembled an extraordinary representation of painting in America, from Impressionism through Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, and contemporary art. He has also acquired objects that reflect his Egyptian heritage, including Coptic carvings and textiles. But it is his devotion to 19th- and 20th-century painting that is at the center of his collection and this exhibition. Grouped in thematic galleries, the masterpieces on view include works by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent. Also represented are Helen Frankenthaler, George Inness, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, among many others. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, c. 1880-81. Oil on canvas, 65 × 43¼ in. Fayez S. Sarofim Collection. Egyptian, Figure of a Nude Man, c. 550–450 BC. Limestone. Fayez S. Sarofim Collection. Lee Krasner, The Green Fuse, 1968. Oil on canvas. Fayez S. Sarofim Collection. © 2021 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. El Greco, The Crucifixion, 1575–80. Oil on copper. Fayez S. Sarofim Collection.