Gallery Listings

ACA Galleries, New York City

Fantasy California landscapes by Jack Stuppin, whose saturated-color patchwork fields, curvaceous hills, fleecy clouds and stylized trees have a folk art feel and a playful lyricism. March 27–April 24, 2010.

Alexandre Gallery, New York City

“Second Street Paintings,” a series of ten paintings (1967–70) by veteran artist Lois Dodd, whose urban scenes translate convincingly realistic architecture and light into planes of color and geometric shapes. April 1–May 1, 2010.

Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City

Premier solo show for painter Brad Kunkle, a hyper-Romantic who uses gold and silver leaf to enrich a mostly monochromatic palette. His figures owe much to the Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists, and his shallow, patterned backdrops suggest Japanese screens. April 27–May 7, 2010

Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York City

“Paul Caranicas: On the Edge II,” recent paintings that find abstract patterns in realistic depictions of the industrial landscape. In Caranicas’s “Ozone” series, the void of the sky is shaped by peripheral architectural elements to striking effect. April 1–May 1, 2010.

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York City

“Self-Portraits,” paintings by Travis Schlaht, Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso, Daniel Graves and Paul Oxborough, among others, in a straightforward traditional style. April 1–May 1,2010.

Fischbach Gallery, New York City

“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.

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.

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City

“Not from Here,” recent paintings by Julie Speed, whose quirky, faux-naïve scenes are reminiscent of Brueghel’s visual fables. Chubby figures suggest Botero, and Maurice Sendak also seems an inspiration. April 1–May 1, 2010.

Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York City

“Aqua Terra,” thirty works on paper by traditional watercolorist Alexander Cresswell. His yachting and architecture paintings are breezy and light-filled, and images of Venice and New York harbor have a spontaneous transparency. March 25–April 24, 2010.

Arden Gallery, Boston

A showcase for three contemporary practitioners of the egg tempera method, Fred Wessel and the husband-and-wife team of Scherer and Ouporov, whose fairy-tale scenes juxtapose realistic figures with flat, decorative backdrops enriched with gold leaf and reminiscent of Klimt. April 1–30, 2010.

Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia

A group show featuring trompe l’oeil artist Adam Vinson’s handsome paintings, along with brushy landscapes by Valerie Craig and intriguing figures in interiors by Abby Heller-Burnham, whose scenarios have a Symbolist vibe. March 31–May 2, 2010.

Beardsley Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut

“Objects of Art,” still-life and trompe l’oeil paintings by a good group of contemporary realists, including Kiril Doron, Juliette Aristides and Koo Schadler. April 27–May 29, 2010.

George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

New paintings by three artists. Jorge Santos is a technically accomplished hyper-realist with a propensity for ironic allegory and enigmatic narrative content. Adam Normandin’s latest series of acrylics focuses on freight cars, balancing the abstract formalism of color blocks with the realism of weathered industrial surfaces. Chris Wright’s first solo show, “Fish Market,” offers compositionally straightforward, texturally convincing portraits of fish. April 17–May 29, 2010.

John Pence Gallery, San Francisco

Recent paintings by Carl Dobsky, a contemporary realist willing to tackle tough subjects—punk kids, the homeless—with formal skill and humanity. Double-sided portraits, with vanitas skull still-lifes on the verso, are particularly intriguing. Also crisp still lifes by Adam Forfang. Both shows April 16–May 22, 2010.

Koplin del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles

Portraits by Bill Vuksanovich, mostly straight-on studies of individuals in oil or pencil. Most striking are images of children and a fine still life of colored stones. Also landscapes—some softly lit rural scenes, other with modern detritus such as billboards—by Darlene Campbell. Gold leaf is judiciously used in several of Campbell’s paintings, notably in To Stand (Homage to David Ligare). Both shows April 17–June 29, 2010.

Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa, Monica, California

“1962,” recent oil paintings by Lawrence Gipe, who mimics the look of historical twentieth-century film and photography while emphasizing brushy paint-handling. April 3–May 15, 2010.

Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia

Paintings by Ray Donley and Larry Preston. Donley’s neo-Baroque fictional portraits, rich in chiaroscuro, draw on the commedia dell’arte but reflect modern anxieties. Preston’s kitchen still lifes are dramatically lit and show his love of the Flemish old masters. April 9–May 7, 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.
 
“John Haberle: American Master of Illusion,” an important retrospective for the late-nineteenth-century trompe l’oeil painter, accompanied by a catalogue. April 17–Jully 11, 2010.

Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont

“Egg Tempera: Contemporary Masters” demonstrates the modern vitality of an old technique, with works by George Tooker, Robert Vickrey, Koo Schadler, Fred Wessel, Doug Safranek and Scherer and Ouporov. March 28–July 11, 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.

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida

The world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The usual display of decorative objects is supplemented by “Paintings by Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Circle,” a show that also includes works by Elihu Vedder and Cecilia Beaux. Through July 4, 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.
 
“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change,” a retrospective exploring all aspects of the pioneering photographer, best known for his stop-motion sequences, including his lyrical 1860s California landscapes. April 10–July 18, 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.

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut

“Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint.” This contemporary painter finds inspiration in the grand vistas of nineteenth-century Americans such as Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt selected for this show from the museum’s collection. Telfair’s own pictures are imaginative fictions created in the studio, with a sophisticated chromatic range. April 24–June 27, 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.

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.

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

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 Parmigianino. January 22–May 9, 2010.
 
“Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey,” with thirty-one drawings from the Royal Instiute of British Architects Trust, along with architectural texts and pattern books, and a section on his influence in America, seen in Jefferson’s Monticello. April 2–August 1, 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 Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

“Whistler, Hassam and the Etching Revival.” Late nineteenth-century artists embaced etching as a more creative medium than engraving, which was most associated with reproductions of paintings. Works by Anders Zorn, Joseph Pennell and James Ensor are also included. April 17–August 15, 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 5, 2010

New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut

“The Great American Watercolor,” with work by Winslow Homer, Walton Ford and John Singer Sargent, among others. April 24–July 3, 2010.

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

“Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870–1940,” with 125 works, by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson and George Bellows, among others. April 10–July 18, 2010.

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

“Fairfield Porter: Raw—The Creative Process of an American Master,” unfinished paintings, works on paper and objects from the artist’s studio, offering insights into the practice of an important figurative modernist. April 11–June 13, 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.

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.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

“Whistler: Influences, Friends and the Not-So-Friendly,” with sixty prints by Whistler and work by his contemporaries Henri Fantin-Latour, Joseph Pennell and Charles Meryon. Through May 30, 2010.

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

“Reunited Masterpieces,” with pairs of paintings usually split between museum collections: works by Goltzius, Piero di Cosimo, Frans Hals and George Romney, among others. Through May 30, 2010.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

“Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection,” a show of middle-range Social Realists, with some interesting work by Charles Burchfield, Raphael Soyer and Philip Evergood. Through May 16, 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.
 
“Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1750,” documenting the beginnings of the architects’ profession through medieval masons’ drawings, prints and instruments. Through May 30, 2010.