Gallery ListingsACA Galleries, New York City “Some Kind of Wilderness,” new work by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, a playful visual folklorist who has developed a rich personal iconography exploring the numinous relationships between animals and humans. Her vibrantly colored paintings are often enriched with delicate handwritten texts. May 1–June 26, 2010. Adelson Galleries, New York City “American Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper.” Burchfield, Cassatt, Hassam, Prendergast, Andrew Wyeth and Stephen Scott Young are among the artists represented. June 1–August 27, 2010. Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City New Paintings by Jeremy Lipking, lively contemporary portraits of women and children, nudes and still lifes, in the tradition of the nineteenth-century academy. June 10–25, 2010. Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York City “Rackstraw Downes: A Selection of Drawings 1980–2010” should shed light on the well-respected realist painter, best known for his urban streets and western vistas. June 3–July 30, 2010. Danese Gallery, New York City “Other as Animal,” a group show featuring depictions of surreal animal-human hybrids by contemporary artists, including Julie Hefferman and Shelley Reed. June 3–August 6, 2010. Fischbach Gallery, New York City “We Are the World,” a group show of gallery artists, including work by Alice Dalton Brown, Glen Hansen, Denise Mickilowski and Meg Shields. Anita Mazzucca’s Trimmed Trees (2009) stands out. June 3–August 15, 2010. Forum Gallery, New York City Paintings by Alan Feltus, whose figures-in-interiors reflect his long devotion to early Italian Renaissance masters such as Giotto, although their muted gestures also suggest contemporary anxieties. May 6–June 18, 2010. Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, New York City “Claude Monet: Late Work,” a museum-quality show of the waterlily paintings, including work as early as 1909 as well the experiments after 1914. Through June 26, 2010. Gallery Henoch, New York City Summer group show, including gallery artists Steve Smulka, Eric Zener, Janet Rickus, John Evans and David Kassam. May 13–July 31, 2010. George Billis Gallery, New York City New paintings by Andrew Jones, who documents the old decorative railings of urban architecture with painterly panache and formal intelligence. May 25–July 3, 2010. J. Cacciola Gallery, New York City “Go Figure,” edgy work playing with the human figure in various mediums—oil on canvas, oil on mylar and hand-painted drawing on serigraph—by Alex Kanevsky, Sophie Jodoin, Margaret Evangeline and Jeffrey Beauchamp. May 20–July 3, 2010. Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York City “Something Is Amiss amidst All This Beauty and Delight,” new black-and-white paintings by Shelley Reed, whose images are borrowed from art history, especially Dutch still lifes and studies of animals and birds. May 6–June 12, 2010. Chase Gallery, Boston Moody seascapes by Wayne McDowell, whose expanses of cloudy sky are in the tradition of Romantic abstraction. June 2–27, 2010. David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Recent paintings by Stephen Magsig, exploring shape, color and light in midwestern industrial sites and the architecture of New York’s Soho. May 22–June 18, 2010. Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, California Recent paintings by Christopher Stott, still lifes against clean, white backdrops; the best feature books, typewriters and well-worn luggage, objects that seem to have secret histories of their own. June 5–July 2, 2010. Gruen Galleries, Chicago Paintings of Venice by Tom Parish, who approaches the iconic architecture and canals with an unusual, low-key palette, favoring mauve, rose and ocher. June 4–July 2, 2010. John Pence Gallery, San Francisco Recent paintings by Jeremy Mann, including still lifes and figure studies. His favorite subject is the cityscape, with street life or rooflines blurred by rain or raking sunlight. May 28–June 26, 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. Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey Portraits by Ellen Eagle, in pastel on pumice board, that benefit from a warm, toothy texture and the artist’s insights into the strong characters of her models. May 14–July 1, 2010. William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas Drawings by James Blake—detailed studies of twisted trees that illuminate the process of growth. May 1–June 19, 2010. MuseumsAlbuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico “Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davis collection, National Museum Wales,” a fine collection continues its American tour. Monet, Manet, Corot and van Gogh are also represented. May 14–August 8, 2010. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut “Rackstraw Downes: Under the Westside Highway,” focusing on one painting, a typical amalgam of natural elements with harsh, concrete utilitarian geometries, supplemented by drawings, oil sketches and journal entries. June 27, 2010–January 2, 2011. Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts “In Pursuit of the Picturesque: American Paintings of New England and New York from the Art Complex Museum Collection,” with works by Sanford Gifford, Thomas Doughty, Thomas Moran and Childe Hassam. May 2–September 5, 2010. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “Looking after Louis Sullivan: Photographs, Drawings and Fragments,” documenting the lost buildings and decorative schemes of a great American architect. June 19–December 12, 2010. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas “Manual Alvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries,” forty-five images—many by one of the twentieth century’s great photographers—that capture the potent rituals of daily life in Mexico. March 20– August 1, 2010. Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois “The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480–1650,” a show organized by the Rhode Island School of Design, with prints by Schoengauer, Dürer and Goltzius, among others. A companion show, “Engraving the Ephemeral,” draws on the Block’s collection. Through June 20, 2010. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania “John Haberle: American Master of Illusion,” an important retrospective for the late-nineteenth-century trompe l’oeil painter, accompanied by a catalogue. April 17–July 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. Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio “Robert Vonnoh: American Impressionist,” a retrospective of colorful paintings by Vonnoh (1853–1933), a graduate of the Académie Julian and teacher of Glackens, Henri and Sloan. May 2– June 27, 2010. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California “William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches at Stanford University,” with seventy-five works, including scenes of the Hudson River and Adirondacks, along with the costal views for which the artist is best known. June 23–September 26, 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. Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York “Drawings for American Stained Glass,” with sixteen drawings and a sixteen-foot cartoon reproduction, showing a range of styles from the art nouveau nature of La Farge through modern abstraction, with a 1909 Galahad from Judson Studios. May 17–December 31, 2010. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “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, Manchester, New Hampshire “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. De Young Museum, San Francisco “Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay,” placing avant-garde painters such as Manet, Monet and Degas in the broader context of the nineteenth-century art scene, with work by Realists such as Courbet and academicians such as Bouguereau. May 22– September 6, 2010. Fenimore Museum of Art, Cooperstown, New York “John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women,” with examples of the society portraits that made Sargent’s reputation, along with more causal studies of women from Venice and Capri, and drawings for Madame X. May 29–December 31, 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 Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Small But Sublime: Intimate Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes,” with paintings by Durand, Cropsey, Inness and Heade from the Newark Museum. May 15–September 5, 2010. Frick Collection, New York City “From Mansion to Museum: the Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years,” a small exhibition featuring John Russell Pope’s designs for the 1935 transformation of Carrère and Hastings’s 1913–14 building. June 22–September 5, 2010. Getty Center, Los Angeles “The Old Testament in Medieval Manuscript Illumination,” with scenes of the Creation and Noah’s Ark, among other subjects, from devotional manuscripts, bibles and histories. June 1–August 8, 2010. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida “Sojourner Dream Reliquaries,” twenty-two sculptures of travel trailers from the 1920s–50s, lit from within and featuring unusual materials, such as birchbark, snakeskin, color enamels and gold and silver. The artist, who also makes Shinto shrines, conjures up considerable magic from these miniatures. June 22, 2010–January 2, 2011. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York “The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now,” celebrating the permanent collection and new acquisitions, with works by Cranach, Blakelock, Durand, Gérôme, Inness and Homer. May 8– July 18, 2010. Hispanic Society of America, New York City The Sorella Gallery, featuring epic paintings by a great Spanish artist (1863–1923), who combined history and humanism with glittering brushwork, reopened on May 8, 2010. Permanent installation. Huntington Library, San Marino, California “The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs,” forty-four objects by a creative figure of the American Arts and Crafts movement, whose motifs have the exuberance of French art nouveau and the spindly elegance of the Glasgow school. May 22–September 6, 2010. Travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (October 19, 2010–January 23, 2011). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles “Myths, Legends and Cultural Renewal: Wagner’s Sources,” examining the use of Germanic myths, filtered through the sensibilities of Goethe and the Brothers Grimm, in the modern era. Through August 30, 2010. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City “An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo,” figure studies, motifs from antiquity, mythic narratives and vedute, also including work by Guercino, Guido Reni, Bernini and Canaletto. May 12– August 15, 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 “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 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 “The Glory of Ukraine,” icons from the oldest monastery in Ukraine, showing their stylistic influences, including Western Renaissance and Baroque elements, along with liturgical objects. June 18–September 12, 2010. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “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. Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida “Associated American Artists: Art by Subscription.” Seventy prints made during the Great Depression by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and Reginald Marsh. May 9–June 30, 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. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia “Virgins, Soldiers, Angels and Saints: Violet Oakley’s Religious Art from the PAFA Collection,” celebrating the acquisition of The Wise and Foolish Virgins, stained-glass lancet windows by Oakley (1874–1961), and Saint Cornelius and the Angel, by Tiffany Studios. April 12– July 11, 2010. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine “Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Space,” with twenty works, considering the formal qualities of a painter sometimes prized as a chronicler of Americana. June 5–September 6, 2010. Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska “Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the Nineteenth Century,” examining the influence of Italy’s ateliers, monuments and landscapes, with works by Thomas Crawford, Frank Duvenek, Edward Lear (expanding the scope to some British artists) and the pioneer photographer William Fox Talbot. May 7– September 5, 2010. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts “Picasso Looks at Degas,” pairings and groups of works exploring the modernist’s debt to the most classical of the Impressionists. June 13–September 12, 2010. The Drawing Center, New York City “Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage,” twenty costume designs, created in collaboration with George Balanchine for ballets from his avant-garde picturesque phase. Tanning played an important role in the international Surrealist movement, and her delicately disturbing drawings are intriguing works in their own right. April 23– July 23, 2010. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia “American Art from the McGlothlin Collection,” seventy works from an important promised gift, include paintings by Bellows, Cassatt, Chase, Hassam, Homer, Sargent and Whistler, among others. May 1– July 18, 2010. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut “Seeing Double: Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London,” a close examination of John Scarlett Davis’s Interior of the British Institution (1829), illuminating the taste and installation style of the period. June 24–September 19, 2010. |
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