Summer 2017

ORCHESTRATING ELEGANCE: ALMA-TADEMA AND DESIGN JUNE 4–SEPTEMBER 4 Discover the little-known story of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s design for Henry Marquand’s Gilded Age music room through a dazzling display of its original furniture, paintings, and related works. ALSO ON VIEW THIS SUMMER: As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts clarkart.edu Williamstown, Massachusetts Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, designer; Johnstone, Norman & Co., London, manufacturers, Armchair (detail), 1884–85. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, W.25: 1, 2-1980 Generous contributors to Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design include the Gerry Charitable Trust, Sylvia and Leonard Marx, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.