Exhibitions
until 11 january 2009 in National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.
In conjunction with the major exhibition THE BIG THAW, portraits of Lily Eversdijk Smulders of Canadian Inuit will be on display this summer.
More information: www.rmv.nl , gallery exhibitions.
Drawings of Lily Eversdijk Smulders online.
www.britishmuseum.org/research
You could search by Smulders, or Eversdyk-Smulders or Eversdyk, all the 60 drawings will come up.
2003: Museon, The Hague; (Bali: Portraits by Lily Eversdijk Smulders & Rudolf Bonnet). In the 1930s, Lily Eversdijk Smulders and Rudolf Bonnet were both part of Bali’s community of artists. Their working methods show striking similarities, which formed the reason for this combined exhibition, along with the fact that 20 June 2003 was the hundredth anniversary of Lily's birth. (Guest curator: Cassandra Carmio.) 16 May to 21 September 2003
2002: Archives Départementales, Digne-les-Bains, France;
Le Tour du Monde en 80 Portraits (Around the World in 80 Portraits).
A wide selection from Lily's entire oeuvre. 5 July to 28 September 2002
2002: Museon, The Hague; HAAR tentoonstelling (HAIR Exhibition). This exhibition included 18 of Lily’s portraits with unusual hairstyles.
1998: Musée Alexandra David-Néel, Digne-les-Bains, France. Exposition Lily Eversdijk Smulders (36 portraits of Tibetans). Summer 1998
1997-99: Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal. Tussen Tutsi, Turkana en Tuareg (Among Tutsi, Turkana and Tuareg) An exhibition devoted to Lily’s African travels and drawings, with seventy of her African portraits alongside objects from the museum’s collection. This exhibition coincided with the publication of the book of the same name (Tussen Tutsi, Turkana en Tuareg) by Ella Andriesse, which describes Lily’s African travels in detail. 14 December 1997 to 1 March 1999 (extended)
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. Lieve lasten, hoe kinderen gedragen worden (Sweet Burdens: How Children are Carried). This exhibition included nine portraits of mothers and children drawn by Lily.
17 December 1993 to 28 August 1994
1990: Museon, The Hague. Een Passie voor Verre Volken, portretkunst van Lily Eversdijk Smulders (A Passion for Distant Peoples: The Portraiture of Lily Eversdijk Smulders), a major retrospective exhibition of Lily’s entire oeuvre. She herself was present at the opening. 29 June to 26 August 1990 This exhibition also travelled to the ethnological museum in Groningen.
1986: National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden Portretten van Tibetaanse Lama’s (Portraits of Tibetan Lamas) A series of portraits, accompanied by objects from the museum’s collection. The exhibition was opened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
1978: Singer Museum, Laren. A series of portraits of Tibetan lamas, drawn by Lily, was included in this exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist ritual objects.
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