{"id":9036,"date":"2015-07-03T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2015-06-29T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:22:23","slug":"leightons-flaming-june-makes-new-york-debut-at-the-frick-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/?p=9036","title":{"rendered":"Leighton\u2019s \u2018Flaming June\u2019 Makes New York Debut at The Frick Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Less than forty years after its glorious reception at London\u2019s Royal Academy<\/a> in 1895, Frederic Leighton\u2019s extraordinary painting \u201cFlaming June<\/a>\u201d fell from favor and disappeared from view\u2014only to be unearthed in 1962 behind a false panel of a mantelpiece in a house on the outskirts of London.<\/p>\n

With a narrative nearly as captivating as its aesthetic appeal, Leighton\u2019s celebrated painting of a sleeping woman draped in a brilliant orange gown is now on view in New York City for the first time at The Frick Collection<\/a> in an exhibition organized by Susan Grace Galassi<\/a>, Senior Curator.<\/p>\n

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One of the most renowned artists of the Victorian era, Leighton painted his masterpiece in the last year before his death, which is, perhaps, foreshadowed by the symbol of the bouquet of oleander above the sleeping maiden. Inspired in part by Michelangelo\u2019s sculpture \u201cNight,\u201d as well as the erotic painting \u201cLeda and the Swan,\u201d Leighton\u2019s \u201cFlaming June<\/a>\u201d suggests the inherent eroticism of an illusionary Mediterranean setting. Leaving behind no written explanation about the painting\u2019s meaning, Leighton bequeaths \u201cFlaming June<\/a>\u201d as his definitive statement on Aestheticism, the school of art that emphasized formal beauty over content.<\/p>\n

The only British artist to have been ennobled, becoming Lord Leighton, Baron of Stretton, Leighton served as a president of the Royal Academy, where \u201cFlaming June<\/a>\u201d was first displayed to critical acclaim. \u201cDespite the painting\u2019s renown,\u201d states Galassi, \u201cit has never before been exhibited in New York.\u201d Having passed through several private collections in the early 20th<\/sup> century, the painting was forgotten before its rediscovery in 1962, whereafter it was purchased by Luis Ferr\u00e9, the founder of Museo de Arte de Ponce<\/a> in Puerto Rico, where the painting has remained one of the collection\u2019s signature works.<\/p>\n

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From June 9 through September 6, 2015, the single-work exhibition remains installed in the center of The Frick Collection<\/a>\u2019s Oval Room<\/a>, surrounded by four full-length portraits by James McNeill Whistler, a London contemporary of Leighton, whose work was also influenced by the Aesthetic movement. The interplay between Whistler\u2019s distinctly modern style and Leighton\u2019s neo-classical principles provides a complementary context for understanding the milieu and manners of Aestheticism and its adherents.<\/p>\n

The exhibition ‘Leighton’s Flaming June’<\/a> is accompanied by a small framed oil sketch that Leighton made in preparation of the painting\u2019s palette, as well as an illustrated catalogue<\/a> and a series of public programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Established by Henry Clay Frick, The Frick Collection<\/a> opened in 1935. Guided by the mandarin aesthetics of the discerning art dealer Joseph Duveen, Frick, who had a remarkable eye for acquisition, amassed a superlative art collection, leaving 137 paintings to the museum upon his death.<\/p>\n

Apart from the Collection<\/a>\u2019s three Vermeers<\/a> (out of a global total of a possible 37) as well as superb examples of Old Master and 19th-century paintings, the museum also houses French, Italian, and\u00a0English furniture, Limoges enamels,\u00a0S\u00e8vres<\/a> and Chinese\u00a0porcelains, clocks and carpets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less than forty years after its glorious reception at London\u2019s Royal Academy in 1895, Frederic Leighton\u2019s extraordinary painting \u201cFlaming June\u201d fell from favor and disappeared from view\u2014only to be unearthed in 1962 behind a false panel of a mantelpiece in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125],"tags":[2145,2147,2144,2146,1801],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-flaming-june","tag-frederic-leighton","tag-leightons-flaming-june","tag-lord-leighton","tag-the-frick-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0038.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31sdB-2lK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrnystyleandtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}