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X-WR-CALNAME:A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder in
	 Nashville at Vanderbilt University Alumni Lawn - Eventful
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SUMMARY:A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder
DESCRIPTION: Location: Tennessee State Museum \n Contact: Mary Skinner
	\n Description: Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: A Retro
	spective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder\, the first major trav
	eling exhibition solely devoted to the work of this important contempo
	rary realist\, opens to the public on December 12\, 2008\, and remains
	 on view through February 15\, 2009 at the Tennessee State Museum.Orga
	nized by Morris Museum of Art curator Jay Williams\, the exhibition\, 
	includes forty of Baeder's painstakingly rendered oils and watercolors
	\, spanning the period 1974-–2004\, Baeder's work documents the roads
	ide eateries he reveres - diners\, taco trucks\, and barbecue dives. H
	is depiction of them captures the pulse of America in a bygone era.Thi
	s exhibition is accompanied by a fully color-illustrated book\, Pleasa
	nt Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder.
	 Co-published by the Morris Museum of Art and the University Press of 
	Mississippi\, it includes essays by Dr. Donald Kuspit\, one of the lea
	ding critical voices in contemporary American art\, and Morris Museum 
	curator Jay Williams\, a preface by Morris Museum director Kevin Groga
	n\, and a statement by the artist. The artist: One of America's most-a
	dmired realist painters\, John Baeder was born in South Bend\, Indiana
	\, in 1938 and shortly afterward\, moved with his family to Atlanta wh
	ere he was raised. He attended Auburn University before embarking on a
	 career in advertising in 1960. He pursued a very successful career as
	 an art director for ad agencies\, in Atlanta and New York City until 
	the early nineteen-seventies. During his years in New York\, Baeder ke
	pt his technique sharp by drawing\, painting\, and taking photographs\
	, while his day job as an art director kept him focused on American ma
	terial culture. He also began to collect old postcards of roadside Ame
	rica whose images were grounded in early modern realist photography an
	d early color lithography. They helped to inspire him to make the tran
	sition from the world of advertising to the world of art. In 1974\, Iv
	an Karp began exhibiting Baeder's paintings at his well-known SoHo gal
	lery OK Harris Works of Art in New York. Since then Baeder's work has 
	been the subject of more than thirty solo exhibitions\, and it has bee
	n included in more than 150 group shows. Baeder's paintings can be fou
	nd in the permanent collections of many noteworthy American museums\, 
	including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Cooper-Hew
	itt Museum\, the Norton Museum\, the Denver Art Museum\, the Milwaukee
	 Art Museum\, the Newark Museum\, the High Museum of Art\, the Virgini
	a Museum of Fine Arts\, the Detroit Institute of Arts\, the Yale Unive
	rsity Art Gallery\, and the Morris Museum of Art\, to cite just a few\
	, as well as corporate and private collections in Europe and the Unite
	d States too numerous to mention.The author of three popular books - D
	iners (New York: Harry N. Abrams\, 1978 and 1995)\, Gas\, Food\, and L
	odging (New York: Abbeville Press\, 1986)\, and Sign Language: Street 
	Signs as Folk Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams\, 1996) - John Baeder con
	tinues to live and work in Nashville\, Tennessee\, his home since 1981
	.Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibi
	tion of Paintings by John Baeder\, continues through February 15\, 200
	9 at the Tennessee State Museum. Located at Fifth and Deaderick Street
	s in downtown Nashville\, the museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\, Tuesd
	ay through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday and is free to the 
	public. For more information visit the museum website at www.tnmuseum.
	org or call 615-741-2692.\n
LOCATION:Vanderbilt University Alumni Lawn @ 2201 West End Avenue, Nas
	hville, Tennessee 37240 United States
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