The American artist Alice Neel devoted the majority of her life to figurative art. While abstract expressionism flourished on the American art scene, Alice Neel chose to stick firmly to her own artistic idiom. Her colourful portrait paintings with their distinctive outlines are as much concerned with individuals as with social, cultural and political divisions within society. The key to Neel’s creative work was her conviction of the unique and powerful meeting between the artist and the model. Although she became well known for her painted portraits especially of people such as Andy Warhol, photographer Samuel Brody and art critic John Perreault, her works on paper are virtually unknown to the general public. They show a much more personal and intimate side of her art in highly sensitive and timeless works. There are impressive images of the artist ́s family and friends as well as delicate works where she deals with her own personal life, both its joy and pain. This summer’s exhibition is the first major presentation of Alice Neel’s watercolours and drawings ever to be held. Works are on loan from the Estate of Alice Neel in New York and international museums and private collections in USA and Europe.

26.5 - 8.9 2013

The museum’s new bright exhibition hall will, for the second summer, be filled with a rich selection of the museum’s own collection of contemporary Nordic watercolour. The collection includes more than 100 artists, all of which have worked with watercolour in personal ways and from different artistic views.

22.9 2013 - 16.2 2014

In the paintings of Martin Jacobson myths meet and mingle. The intensity of his colours reinforces the sense of dream and unreality. He finds his sources of inspiration in abandoned pictorial material, in old book and magazine illustrations from the late 19th century. He recycles them, picking apart and reassembling disparate pictorial elements, then drawing and painting them in Indian ink and colour. Thus he slowly constructs his own fantasy worlds.

22.9 2013 - 16.2 2014

A good children’s picture book is one in which a magic union of image and text takes place to tell a story. This union provides the core theme for museum activities in autumn 2013. We are inviting young Nordic creators of illustrated books to join in an exhibition. We will publish a book on the topic of children’s picture books as art form and fill the museum with picture book activities.

See the full programme here, most of the information in the folder is in Swedish, please email info@akvarellmuseet.org if you have any questions.