Shreveport Art Piece on Display in NYC and Chicago

Shreveport is home to The Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana, and while the name is a long one the long history held in this museum should be what catches your attention. If you've heard of the Meadows Museum before there's a chance, you're thinking of the first Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, well our Meadows Museum here at Centenary is indeed related Southern Methodist University's lovingly nicknamed "Prado on the Prairie" as both were opened and named in thanks to the philanthropy of the oil tycoon Algur Hurtle Meadows.

Meadows Piece on Loan

The Meadows at Centenary has a large permanent collection estimated to contain over 1,600 art pieces, with exhibitions rotating in and out of the museum. Centenary announced on their website that the museum will be loaning one of their own permanent pieces to the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the Neue Galerie in New York. Sheep in the Birch Forest by Paula Modersohn-Becker will be on loan up until January of next year.

The piece will be on display at the Neue Galerie as a part of their Modersohn-Becker exhibition. In a letter to Meadows Museum director Alissa Klaus the directors of the Neue Galerie, Sheep in the Birch Forest was described as "...one of the largest and most important work in the series..."

Paula Modersohn-Becker, born 1876, was a German Expressionist painter who's credited by the Museum of Modern Art as the first woman artist to depict herself nude in a portrait as well as the first to paint nude self-portraits while pregnant. Paula produced over 700 paintings during her lifetime.

If you'd like to see Sheep in the Birch Forest, you'll have to wait until January 15th of 2025 when it makes its way back the Meadows Museum at Centenary College of Louisiana, on the other hand if you're willing to make a trip for the summer the piece is already on display at the Neue Galerie and will be there until September 9th.