Art Of The Day Weekly
#304 - from 23 May 2013 to 29 May 2013
Thomas Eakins, The Swimming Hole, oil on canvas, 1884-85, 70x92 cm, The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
In the Kennedy suite
DALLAS - Art historian Olivier Meslay presents a very original and moving exhibition fifty years after the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas. He has brought together the collection of works that had been put together in suite 850 of the Texas Hotel at Fort Worth, where the presidential couple spent their last night before the drama. The loans from local collectors included works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Eakins, Henry Moore, etc.
• Hotel Texas at the Dallas Museum of Art, from 26 May to 5 September 2013.