Most Recent Exhibition
Centre Historique Minier
Lewarde, FRANCE
August 31 - March 31, 2016
Recent Exhibitions
Les Dominicaines
Pont-l'Eveque, FRANCE
June 15 - September 15, 2012
"At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection."
The exhibition was supported by an illustrated, color, French language catalogue, on sale at the Musee D’Orsay, Paris.
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Le Bois du Cazier
Marcinelle, Belgium, BELGIQUE
April 5 to June 3, 2012
"At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection."
The exhibition was supported by an illustrated, color, French language catalogue, on sale at the Musee D’Orsay, Paris.
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The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
County Durham, England
September 17, 2011 through January 15, 2012
"At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection."
Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by the Ackland Museum (University of North Carolina),Tthe Bowes Museum exhibition is the first stop of a multi-country European tour that is being organized and circulated by Art-In-Industry.com . Click HERE for more details on The Bowes Museum.
You may download a .pdf of all prints and posters in the "Heart of Progress" exhibition, HERE.
Palmer Museum of Art | Pennsylvania State University : October 19, 2010 -
January 23, 2011
Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, the exhibition was organized and is being circulated by the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with funding provided by the William Hayes Ackland Trust. Click HERE for more details on the Palmer Museum.
You may download a .pdf of all prints and posters in the "Heart of Progress" exhibition, HERE.
Ackland Art Museum | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : January 24 - May 17, 2009
The Ackland continued the celebration of its fifitieth anniversary year with a special exhibition drawn from one of the most extensive private collections of prints and posters associated with industry and labor. At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 - Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection (January 24 - May 17, 2009) included approximately seventy-five pieces selected from the collection of Dr. John P. Eckblad. The exhibition includes works that explore the world of coal production and consumption, featuring such artists as Camille Pissarro, Theophile Steinlen, Constantin Meunier, Joseph Pennell, C. R. W. Nevinson, and Craig McPherson, as well as a wealth of commercial and documentary imagery.
Read more about the Exhibition at The Ackland Art Museum.
You may download a .pdf of all prints and posters in the "Heart of Progress" exhibition, HERE.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | Vassar College : January 22 - March 21, 2010
At the Heart of Progress examines the legacy of coal, iron, and steam through prints and posters drawn from one of the most extensive private art collections associated with industry and labor. Organized by the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the exhibition surveys the Faustian bargain between humanity and carbon. Though coal, iron, and steam support industrial civilization, their enormous benefits are counterbalanced by equally enormous tolls.The exhibition of seventy prints, five books, and one children’s toy focuses on several themes, including mining, iron and steel making, smokestack landscapes, and images of laborers. Its wide artistic range includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English and French landscapes, and post-impressionist images from the golden age of French printmaking in the 1890s.
Read more about the Exhibition at Vassar College.
Identity and Difference in 19th Century Art, Ackland Museum | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : August 27, 1995 - January 14, 1996
The installation, "Labor and Industry" opened November 29, 1995 and ran through January 14, 1996. Featured works included prints by J.C. Bourne, Francois Bonhomme, Eugene Carriere, and William Read from the John P. Eckblad Collection of Industrial Imagery.