Gallery Listings

Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York City

William Bailey, serene yet formally invigorating paintings by a distinguished contemporary realist. Six figure paintings, which suggest the mysterious characters of Balthus, and a substantial group of Bailey’s signature still lifes—groups of modern vessels so elegantly simple they recall classical Kraters and amphorae. Through March 27, 2010.

Campton Gallery, New York City

Handsome paintings of picturesque scenes in Naples, Sicily and Venice by Thomas Pradzynsti (1951–2007). March 14–30, 2010.

D.C. Moore Gallery, New York City

Yvonne Jacquette’s bird’s-eye views of the city, usually New York and often by night. Some paintings are shaped by the architecture of the metropolis; others, almost abstract, hover over galaxies of distant traffic. February 10–March 13, 2010.

DFN Gallery, New York City

Recent paintings by Dan Witz, a contemporary practitioner of the nocturnal genre, drawing on traditional Baroque candlelight pictures. Witz’s subjects include isolated modern buildings as well as eerily lit portraits. March 10–April 3, 2010.

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York City

“March Salon Featuring Still Life,” with works by John Morra and others. March 4–28, 2010.

Fischbach Gallery, New York City

Two painters doing attractive work in traditional genres are on view. Brad Marshall’s small landscapes, based on plein-air sketches and photographs, offer views of Niagara Falls, Lake Como and Capri. Denise Mickilowski’s trompe l’oeil images of fruit, presented in wooden crates that double as frames, make intriguing use of shallow-space illusionism. February 4–March 13, 2010.
 
“Found in Translation,” watercolor/gouache paintings by Patrick Gordon, who recreates botanical studies and natural history still lifes by Flemish and Dutch Renaissance artists, handsome examples of creative copying. Also, “Verdant Refuge,” serene California landscapes by Christopher Evans. Both exhibitions March 18–April 17, 2010.

Forum Gallery, New York City

Bernardo Siciliano’s full-frontal nudes have an edgy, combative quality, with little of the decorum of the academic figure. The strength of the compositions comes as much from the faces of his models, seen with a directness reminiscent of Eakins, as from the shock of the naked body. January 21–March 13, 2010.

George Billis Gallery, New York City

Recent acrylic paintings by Roland Kulla of girders and bridges. His clear-eyed realism is balanced by a strong sense of abstract composition in disorienting close-ups that suggest Franz Kline. March 9–April 17, 2010.

Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York City

“Nature Morte,” hyper-realistic oil paintings by Marc Dennis, who brings a microscopic intensity to the botanical still-life genre. His orchids are hypnotically sinister in their beauty. Through March 20, 2010.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York City

Glamorous fin-de-siècle photographs by Adolf de Meyer, best known for his Ballets Russes images in the Pictorialist mode. February 17–April 3, 2010.

Arden Gallery, Boston

Recent work by Sherrie Wolf, who poses colorful, frequently outsized still-life arrangements against art historical backdrops, in this group, pictures of exotic birds. March 2–30, 2010.

Chase Gallery, Boston

Joseph Piccillo, black-and-white images in charcoal and mixed media, of galloping horses and human figures, like cropped close-ups of Muybridge’s action frames. March 3–28, 2010.

John Pence Gallery, San Francisco

“The Human Figure,” an important survey—exploring allegory and portraiture as well as nude studies—by some first-rate contemporary artists including Juliette Aristides, Michael Bergt, Jacob Collins, Douglas Flynt, Kate Lehman, Richard Maury and Will Wilson. February 26–April 10, 2010.

Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans

Recent acrylic paintings by Adrian Deckbar, who paints vibrant close-ups of Honey Island Swamp in Tammany parish, focusing on the “gnarly, uncontrolled, magical quality” of wild places. Through March 28, 2010.

Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida

Recent paintings by Robert Vickery, the dean of contemporary egg tempera masters, whose games with perception are always intriguing. March 28–April 10, 2010.

Koplin del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles

“Un-Exported Los Angeles,” gouaches by Michelle Muldrow, whose subjects—run-down urban wastelands—are given incongruous grace by feathery palms, blue skies and exuberant brushwork. February 27–April 10, 2010.

Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia

Kevin Fitzgerald, simplified landscapes—mostly of marshes at dusk or dawn—that suggest the mystical Tonalism of George Inness with an awareness of Rothko. March 12–April 6, 2010.

William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts

“2010 Still-Life Exhibition,” with lovely drawings by Skip Steinworth, Pop-bright images by Robin Freedenfeld and Nicora Gangi’s dramatically lit birds and fruit. Through March 14, 2010.

Museums

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

“American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,” with drawings and watercolors from 1910 to 1960, featuring Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andrew Wyeth. February 27–May 30, 2010.

Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

“N.C. Wyeth and the Philadelphia Sketch Club,” focusing on Wyeth’s first show in 1912, with impressionist views of the countryside as well as illustrations. March 20–May 23, 2010.

Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

“Anna Hyatt Huntington: A Collecting Eye,” with works selected by the sculptor and Brookgreen founder, including pieces by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Harriet Frishmuth and Paul Manship. January 30–April 25, 2010.

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

“Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum, Wales.” Works by Monet, Manet and van Gogh are also featured. January 30–April 25, 2010.

Currier Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

“From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Currier Museum of Art.” Childe Hassam, Charles Burchefield, John Marin and Andrew Wyeth are also represented. March 6–June 23, 2010.

Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida

“New World Eden: Artist Explorers in the American Tropics,” with works by Frederic Church, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness and Thomas Moran. January 26–April 18, 2010.

Frick Collection, New York City

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the Dulwich Picture Gallery,” works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Murillo, Poussin, Gainsborough and Canaletto. March 9–May 30, 2010.

Getty Center, Los Angeles

“Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts,” showing churches and domestic interiors, some realistic, others stylized as symbolic forms and compositional devices. March 2–May 16, 2010.

“A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans.” Evans (1853–1943) is best known for his images of medieval cathedrals in England and France, which are imbued with spirituality. In addition to his signature architectural depictions of York Minster and Ely Cathedral, the exhibition features landscapes and portraits. February 2–June 6, 2010.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

“‛The Artful Disposition of Shades’: The Great Age of English Mezzotints.” Before the era of photographic reproduction, mezzotints—with their painterly lights and shadows—were the preferred way to disseminate artistic images. Examples here include works by Reynolds, Turner and Constable. January 19–March 15, 2010.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, San Marino, California

“Modeling Devotion: Terracotta Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance.” Often painted and glazed, these figures were strikingly colorful and naturalistic. Della Robbia is the best known of the artists on display. Through May 23, 2010.

Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C.

“Personal Interiors,” a joint exhibition by Lani Irwin and Alan Feltus. Feltus’s paintings combine an early Renaissance vocabulary of gestures with modern sensibilities. Irwin uses geometric space in a more esoteric way, developing a rich personal iconography. January 23–March 14, 2010. Travels to George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (April 5–May 7, 2010).

Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas

“From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern,” with 100 works by, among others, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Gauguin, van Gogh and Matisse. November 22, 2009–March 21, 2010.

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

“An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection,” celebrating a local collector’s taste for the exuberant, light-filled work of John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer and Frank Benson, among other Americans fluent in the style. Also on view is “Truth Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945,” curated by the George Eastman House, representing early work aimed at establishing the new artform. Many of these moody landscapes and portraits share the aesthetic of Tonalist painting. Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz and the eccentric F. Holland Day. Both exhibitions February 3–May 9, 2010.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

“Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage,” the first show to focus on these inventive mixed-media works, mostly undertaken by aristocratic women as an outlet for creativity. Combining watercolor and collaged photographic elements, these sheets and albums have the playfulness of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll but also anticipate Surrealism and modernist collage. February 2–May 9, 2010. Travels to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (June 5–September 5, 2010).
 
“The Drawings of Bronzino,” the first monographic show of drawings by the Mannerist painter, court artist to Cosimo de’ Medici, with sixty sheets. Agnolo Bronzino (1503–72) was a remarkable stylist. January 20–April 18, 2010.
 
“The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy,” from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France. Mid-fifteenth-century statuettes from the elegant funeral monument of John the Fearless. March 2–May 23, 2010.
 
“The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry,” an opportunity to see one of the most sumptuous prayerbooks of the Gothic era, currently unbound; the pages are alive with luminous color and rich natural detail. March 2–June 13, 2010.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Desire and Deliverance: Drama in the Old Testament,” with prints and drawings by Dürer and Rembrandt, among others. March 6–September 12, 2010.

Morgan Library & Museum, New York City

“A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy.” The Morgan has the world’s largest collection of Austen (1775–81) manuscripts and letters. The show includes first and illustrated editions of the novels, contemporary drawings and prints, and responses from later writers, such as Auden, Nabokov and Woolf. November 6, 2009–March 14, 2010.
 
Three in-house exhibitions demonstrating the Morgan’s splendid specialties. “Demons and Devotions: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves,” with 100 miniatures from the disbound masterpiece (1440), and “Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves,” showcasing eighteen manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Both on view January 22–May 2, 2010. Eighty drawings from Renaissance and Mannerist artists are also on exhibit in “Rome after Raphael,” which includes a very fine group by the Mannerist Pontormo. January 22–May 9, 2010.

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

“Glackens as Illustrator.” One of the Eight, a group of artists associated with the Ashcan School, Glackens combines social observation with graphic energy. September 5, 2009–May 3, 2010.

Museum of the Bible in Art, New York City

“Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain,” exploring through images the rich, complicated cultural interactions of a fascinating period. February 18–May 30, 2010.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

“Sargent and the Sea,” a show that originated at the Corcoran Gallery, focuses on Sargent’s breezy, virtuosic paintings of sun and seaside. February 14–May 23, 2010. Also on view is “Houston’s Sargents” with thirty works from the museum and local private collections, with an emphasis on Sargent’s bravura society portraits. February 14–May 9, 2010.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

“The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Paintings and Sculpture, 1600–1700,” with twenty works, paintings by Velázquez and Zurbarán as well as painted and gilded sculpture. Vivid realism charged with fierce spirituality. February 28–May 31, 2010.
 
“Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age,” fifteen paintings and twenty drawings by the Dutch artist (1585–1634), scenes, mixing landscape and genre, of skating and sleigh rides on frozen canals. March 21–July, 2010

New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut

“John Haberle: American Master of Illusion,” a major show devoted to the late-nineteenth-century trompe l’oeil artist, accompanied by a catalogue. December 11, 2009–March 14, 2010.

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

“Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres.” In homage to Ingres’s Comtesse d’Haussonville (1845), on loan from the Frick Collection, 150 works by nineteenth-century and modern painters, including Bonnard, Modigliani and Picasso. October 30, 2009– April 5, 2010.

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

“Nature and Spirit: American Landscape Painting from Florida Private Collections,” with works from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, including the natural history images of Audubon and O’Keeffe’s quasi-abstractions. January 9–March 21, 2010.

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

“Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art,” with fifty works from a Florida museum. The selection ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. February 4–June 6, 2010.

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey

“Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art,” with ninety works showcasing the documentary and formal visual interest of building types in two-dimensional images. March 6–June 6, 2010.

Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

“Gothic Art in the Gilded Age,” an intriguing examination of collecting at the turn of the twentieth century, with 350 medieval and early Renaissance works, including paintings, sculpture and decorative objects. Originally belonging to the Frenchman Émile Gavet, the collection was acquired by Alva Vanderbilt for her Newport home and then passed to John Ringling. Through April 4, 2010.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

“Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan,” with more than 120 photographs and stereo cards. The exhibition, mounted in collaboration with the Library of Congress, focuses on formally assured images that had an enormous impact on the visual iconography of the American West for generations of painters and photographers, as well as the public, and helped spur the National Parks movement. February 12–May 9, 2010.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

“Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris” examines the early work of the stylish Italian (1842–1931), best known for his bravura brushwork and elegant portraits. The seventy paintings and drawings on view are from the Clark, which has the largest Boldini holdings in the United States, as well as European museums and private collections. February 14–April 25, 2010.

Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio

“Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914,” with seventy paintings and works on paper by, among others, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, John Singer Sargent and John Twachtman. February 5–May 2, 2010.

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

“Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp,” 200 sheets, including works by Turner, Blake, Fuseli, Friedrich, Corot and Delacroix. February 4–April 25, 2010.