The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced it will be the only U.S. venue to host the touring retrospective "Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting," honoring the English artist known for revitalizing figurative art in the 1990s. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the exhibition opens October 12, 2025, and runs through January 18, 2026, featuring nearly 50 works spanning Saville's career from her student days at the Glasgow School of Art to recent abstracted portraits. The show includes monumental oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and a new series, accompanied by a publication with contributions from curators and critics.
This matters because Saville is one of the most influential living figurative painters, and the exhibition offers a rare comprehensive view of her evolution, with Fort Worth as the exclusive U.S. stop. The show underscores the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's role in presenting major international retrospectives, and the accompanying publication and artist lecture deepen public engagement with contemporary painting's boundaries.