San Francisco hosts first exhibition dedicated to Rubens in more than a decade

The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco will host from April 6 to September 8, 2019, the first exhibition dedicated to Pieter Paul Rubens in the United States in more than a decade and the first ever to focus on the crucial years of the artist’s early career, as well as his social and artistic choices that brought him international fame.

This is also evident from the very title chosen for the exhibition, Early Rubens: in fact, this one will focus between 1609 and 1621, a period when the Baroque master was at the beginning of his career. Through more than thirty paintings and twenty works on paper, the exhibition will trace the early developments in the art of the master with the gift for making seductive paintings with intense colors.
More than fifty works will come from public and private collections in Europe and North America, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Museum in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Many of the works featured will be exhibited for the first time in the United States. Thematically, the masterpieces will be devoted to both history and mythology.

“What distinguished Rubens was his ability to reinterpret the significant models he encountered in Italy and the Netherlands using his brilliant colors and virtuoso brushwork. His tendency to work quickly and on a large scale was essential to Rubens’ success,” said Kirk Nickel, assistant curator of European painting at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

"Early Rubens is the story of a painter and his city, of how Rubens’ return led to an artistic, intellectual and commercial revival of Antwerp," added Sasha Suda, curator of European art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Early Rubens is curated by Kirk Nickel and Sasha Suda. Upon completion of the exhibition at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, the exhibition will be on view from October 12, 2019 to January 5, 2020 at theArt Gallery of Ontario.

For info: www.legionofhonor.org

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Image: Pieter Paul Rubens, The Tribute (c. 1612; oil on panel, 144.1 x 189.9 cm; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums)

San Francisco hosts first exhibition dedicated to Rubens in more than a decade

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