Dutch Art in a Global Age X Gregg Irby Gallery
This past summer the High Museum in Atlanta was one coveted stops for the traveling exhibition, Dutch Art in a Global Age, which features Dutch artworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. As an Atlanta-based art gallery, we were very lucky to have these masterpieces on view just down the street from us. While viewing the artworks in the exhibit, we found ourselves constantly met with similarities that these masterful seventeenth-century works have with the contemporary paintings at Gregg Irby Gallery.
Floral still-lifes, chinoiserie vases, loyal and restful dogs, scenes of ships and seas, and architectural forms are all some of the motifs that brought to mind comparisons to our available artworks. On a deeper and more thematic level, the exhibit's emphasis on how artists and collectors were responding to the boom of global trade felt especially on-the-nose in today’s era of social media and online shopping.
We love observing how the efforts of previous artists can have impacts on the working artists of today. If you do as well, then keep scrolling to see some of the connections we made between the artworks at Gregg Irby Gallery and paintings from the exhibit Dutch Art in a Global Age…
P.S. to all of our Texas art collectors - Dutch Art in a Global Age is currently on view at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, TX until February 9th, 2025!
Left: Evan Mooney, Parrot Tulip in Rose Pink and Raw Umber, 40x30, acrylic on panel
Right: Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers, c. 1709, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Lawrence Young, Reflection, 24x18, oil pastel on paper, Gregg Irby Gallery
Bonaventura Peeters, Dutch Ships in Antwerp Harbor, c. 1637, oil on panel, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Left: Andrea Curtis, Kitchen Tables with Dahlias, 39.5×60, acrylic and collage on canvas in natural wood frame, Gregg Irby Gallery
Right: Willem Kalf, Still Life with Fruit in a Wanli Bowl, c. 1664, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Left: Evan Mooney, Minimalist Arch in Blushes on Hibiscus Green, 30x24, acrylic and resin on panel, Gregg Irby Gallery
Middle: Gretchen Kelly, Flowers in Vase 11, 22x15, mixed media on paper, Gregg Irby Gallery
Right: Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Still Life with Roses in a Glass Vase, c. 1619, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Carylon Cooper, Wake Me When It’s Over, 40x40, oil on canvas, Gregg Irby Gallery
Right: Gerrit Dou, Dog at Rest, c. 1650, oil on panel, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Left: Laura Park, From Jaipur with Love, 30×48, mixed media on canvas, Gregg Irby Gallery
Right: Jan van Huysum, Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, c. 1730, oil on panel, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
