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SUMMARY:Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London
DESCRIPTION:Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London is the first major museum exhibition in the United States devoted to Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)\, one of the most daring and distinctive artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. Described by Edward Burne-Jones as “the greatest of us all\,” Solomon used his artistic practice to explore his sexuality and faith. He produced art that brought biblical narrative\, religious ritual\, and queer sensuality into unexpected dialogue. \nAssembling over 180 paintings\, watercolors\, drawings\, prints\, photographs\, and archival material\, Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London follows Solomon’s vision across Jewish\, Christian\, and Greco-Roman subjects. These works range from Old Testament scenes to depictions of Sappho\, Bacchus\, and other classical figures—subjects through which Solomon gave form to beauty\, longing\, and same-sex passion. \nSolomon’s career never recovered after his 1873 arrest for attempted sodomy. Rejected by the art establishment in which he had once thrived\, he lived for decades under precarious circumstances marked by alcoholism\, homelessness\, and repeated stays in London workhouses. Yet Solomon did not disappear. He continued to produce an extensive body of work and garnered a new generation of followers and supporters\, even as later histories of Victorian art minimized his achievements or omitted him entirely. \nThis exhibition positions Solomon as a major Victorian artist whose sexuality and faith were central to the power and intensity of his art. Seen anew\, his work emerges as sophisticated and resilient\, using the languages of Pre-Raphaelitism\, Judaism\, and classical antiquity to visualize desire and identity far beyond the constraints of Victorian convention. \nSimeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London is co-curated by Sophie Lynford\, Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection\, Delaware Art Museum\, and Roberto C. Ferrari\, Curator of Art Properties\, Columbia University\, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated volume published by Yale University Press. \n \nSappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene\, 1864\, Simeon Solomon. Watercolour on paper 330 x 381 mm. Tate.
URL:https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/simeon-solomon-queer-and-jewish-in-victorian-london/
LOCATION:Delaware Art Museum\, 2301 Kentmere Parkway\, Wilmington\, DE\, 19806\, United States
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