Posed & Composed: Portraits of women from OKC MOA's permanent collection

(Oklahoma City, OK) The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) showcases the diversity of the female portrait in the latest exhibition, Posed & Composed: Portraits of Women from the Permanent Collection, which opened July 23.

"This exhibition considers one of the most enduring subjects in the history of Western art: portraits of women," said Film and American Art Curator Michael J. Anderson. "Instead of designing the gallery with the paintings arranged chronologically, we have sought to highlight commonalities in pose, gesture, color, composition, and subject matter. In being viewed outside their immediate historical contexts, they begin to speak to each other in new and unexpected ways."

Twelve portraits by eleven American artists will be on view in the Posed and Composed gallery located on the second floor of the Museum. The time period of the works ranges just before World War I through the early 1980s.

Included in Posed & Composed are both familiar and unfamiliar highlights from the Museum's collection. On view beside well-known works by Will Barnet, Alex Katz, and Larry Rivers are less frequently exhibited canvases from such notable American painters as Leon Kroll, Walt Kuhn, and Everett Shinn. "Collectively, their art attests to the abiding vitality of the woman as artistic subject," said Anderson.

Posed & Composed: Portraits of Women from the Permanent Collection is organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday. For more information, visit www.okcmoa.com.

About OKCMOA: Presenting exhibitions drawn from throughout the world, the Museum's collection covers a period of five centuries with highlights in European and American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, a growing collection of contemporary art, and one of the largest collections of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The museum hosts a repertory cinema and is home to the Museum School. Amenities include the Museum Store, a Roof Terrace, and the Museum Cafe, a full-service restaurant, offering lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch, full bar and catering services.

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