ART REVIEWS
A Walk Through East Hampton's Creative History
'East Hampton Artists: Seen and Scene'
Guild Hall Museum, 158 Main Street, East Hampton. Through July 26. 324-0806.
Guild Hall has had few opportunities to test the full scope of its permanent collection though wise interpretive programming. But with East Hampton's 350th anniversary as the direct impetus, the museum has prepared a commemorative exhibition that demonstrates how its permanent collection ties in with the last 125 years of the area's history.
A particularly effective gallery plan makes use of relationships among photography, painting, prints, sculpture and archival material to draw attention to the local landscape, landmarks and circles of artists who engaged in furthering the goals of a sequence of avant-garde styles. One cluster examines images of heads by Surrealists: Max Ernst's moonlike bronze ''Face''; Val Telberg's self-portrait with only one side in focus, and Dorothy Norman's photograph of Marcel Duchamp in East Hampton. Jimmy Ernst's adjacent canvas, configured entirely in black, offers a nice transition between surreal and abstract tenets.
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Guild Hall Museum, 158 Main Street, East Hampton. Through July 26. 324-0806.
Guild Hall has had few opportunities to test the full scope of its permanent collection though wise interpretive programming. But with East Hampton's 350th anniversary as the direct impetus, the museum has prepared a commemorative exhibition that demonstrates how its permanent collection ties in with the last 125 years of the area's history.
A particularly effective gallery plan makes use of relationships among photography, painting, prints, sculpture and archival material to draw attention to the local landscape, landmarks and circles of artists who engaged in furthering the goals of a sequence of avant-garde styles. One cluster examines images of heads by Surrealists: Max Ernst's moonlike bronze ''Face''; Val Telberg's self-portrait with only one side in focus, and Dorothy Norman's photograph of Marcel Duchamp in East Hampton. Jimmy Ernst's adjacent canvas, configured entirely in black, offers a nice transition between surreal and abstract tenets.
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