What’s on at: The Crocker Art Museum, The Sense of Beauty, Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce

May 3

The Crocker Art Museum presents The Sense of Beauty, a landmark exhibition of 60 masterworks from Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce. Spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, the exhibition brings European, American, and Puerto Rican painting into dialogue through bilingual English-Spanish interpretation.

Highlights include Frederic, Lord Leighton’s Flaming June (1895), alongside works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Goya, John Singer Sargent, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Frederic Edwin Church, Gustave Courbet, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Angelica Kauffman, Bouguereau, and James Tissot.

Installed in the Crocker’s historic 1872 Victorian gallery building, the exhibition marks the space’s first traveling show in more than 20 years. Organized with Museo de Arte de Ponce, it is accompanied by a fully illustrated bilingual catalogue and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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This exhibition is on view at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA through May 24. Learn more here.

Hugh Leeman

What’s on at: The Crocker Art Museum, The Sense of Beauty, Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce

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