The following organizations have lent their time, expertise, and collections to the traveling exhibit and this Web site:

Special thanks to the Wyeth Center at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Brandywine River Museum for their generous help in assisting the ARTSEDGE staff in developing this resource and granting permission to use all of the images of works by James Wyeth included on the site, as well as permission to use Andrew Wyeth's Her Room.

Thanks to the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art for generously allowing us to use Andy Warhol's, Portrait of Jamie Wyeth with Tan Background. Larger versions of the image, as well as interactive information on this painting and others in its collection, is available in their Online Collection.

Thank you to Lynne Silverstein for writing the article, "Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev: The Unlikely Pair Who Created a Legendary Partnership."

This exhibition Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer is organized by the William A. Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center, Rockland, Maine, in collaboration with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, New York, N.Y. Sponsored by the MBNA Foundation.

This Web site was created by ARTSEDGE to support the educational activities of the exhibit and its organizers.

DATES AND PLACES

Don't miss Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer in the Education Resource Center of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, from February 7 to March 10, 2002.

Not in the Washington, DC area? You can also catch the exhibit at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Vincent Astor Gallery in New York City, New York, from March 22-May 25, 2002; and at The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, from June 8-October 20, 2002.

TEACHING RESOURCES

Bring the work of James Wyeth and Rudolf Nureyev to the classroom through exciting lesson plans and other educational resources.



This resource was created in January 2002 by ARTSEDGE. All rights reserved.
For credits and additional information, see the Sources page.
ARTSEDGE is a project of the Education Department of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
and is a member of the MarcoPolo Partnership.