Gallery ListingsAdelson 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. D.C. Moore Gallery, New York City “Charles Burchfield: Highlights 1915–1966,” complementing the retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Through September 25, 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. George Billis Gallery, New York City “New York Moments,” urban scenes by gallery artists. July 16–August 14, 2010. Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City “Seven Artists,” a group show featuring Steve Cope’s panoramic landscapes, Walter Hatke’s airy paintings of houses and Julie Speed’s neo-Brueghelian genre scenes. June 29–August 13, 2010. Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York City “Summertime,” summer-themed group shows at both the East and West Coast locations. Through September 3, 2010. Julie Saul Gallery, New York City “The Pencil of Nature,” a group show that takes its title from pioneer photographer Fox Talbot’s 1844–46 book, exploring the symbiotic relationship between photography and the graphic arts. July 1–August 20, 2010. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City Works by Fairfield Porter, one of the mid-twentieth century’s most thoughtful representational modernists. Also colorful, expressionist watercolors, often of exuberant nature, by William and Marguerite Zorach. Through August 13, 2010. Spanierman Gallery, New York City “Summer Selections,” a rather miscellaneous gathering of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, including two rural scenes by Thomas Hart Benton and appealing pictures by Eastman Johnson and Wolf Kahn. July 22–September 11, 2010. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City “Town and Country,” rural and urban souvenirs by twentieth-century artists such as Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley. Through August 13, 2010. Zoraspace, Brooklyn “Dialogue beyond Reality,” a group show featuring New York-based photographers, video artists and sculptors, including Meredith Bergmann. June 18–August 29, 2010. Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts “American Works on Paper: 1800s to Present,” with works by Benton, Catlin, Cropsey and Hassam, among others, from Spanierman Gallery in New York City, as part of the Masters Festival of the Arts. June 26–August 14, 2010. Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, California Paintings by Paul Balmer, brushy landscapes and cityscapes with simplified forms, seen through the hot colors of a heat wave. August 1–31, 2010. Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia “Art, Nature and the American City, 1840–1955,” a fairly large show from Spanierman Gallery, with works mostly by lesser-known artists, although Blakelock, Kenyon Cox, Glackens and Twatchtman are represented. July 10–October 10, 2010. Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe Western landscapes by Louisa McElwain, who trowels on paint for colorful, expressionist vistas of deserts, mountains and big sky. August 5–30, 2010. Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York A solo show of paintings by Nelson H. White, mostly colorful, breezy, nicely composed beach scenes. July 24–mid-August, 2010. John Pence Gallery, San Francisco “Cityscapes,” with gallery artists, such as Carl Dobsky, Greg Gandy and Dean Larsen, who focus on rooftops, street life and raking light across San Francisco’s hilly terrain, along with views of New York City, Block Island and European Capitals by several other artists. August 6–September 4, 2010. Meyer Gallery, Santa Fe Recent works by Milt Kobayashi, whose figures-in-interiors are socially observant; his brushy, tactile paint-handling yields attractive, spontaneous surfaces. Through August, 2010. Susan Powell Fine Art, Madison, Connecticut “Summer in Connecticut,” a group show featuring Elizabeth Strazzulla’s sea shell still lifes. July 29–August 22, 2010. Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, Washington “My Summer Vacation,” a group show featuring Bo Bartlett’s tightly rendered narratives, Zaria Forman’s chalk pastel seascapes and Peter Waite’s acrylic paintings of well-known sites—Tower Bridge, the Duomo in Florence—in unusual light. July 8–August 30, 2010. MuseumsAldrich 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. Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine A retrospective of sixty paintings and drawings by contemporary realist Joseph Nicoletti, whose paint-handling ranges from tight and seamless to loose and softly matte. June 12–September 25, 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. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio “Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit,” seventy-six works by a printmaker influenced by art deco, Precisionism, Cubism and the landscapes of Mexico and the West Indies. June 26–October 24, 2010. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine “Collecting Winslow Homer,” sixteen paintings from the museum’s holdings. June 26–October 31, 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. 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. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware “A Belief in the Power of Beauty: A Selection of Works by May Morris,” focusing on how May Morris (1862–1938) carried on the legacy of her father, William Morris. August 28, 2010–January 2, 2011. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine “N.C. Wyeth: Poems of American Patriotism,” illustrations commissioned for a 1922 anthology of poems by Whitman, Longfellow and Whittier, among others. Wyeth’s bold, colorful images are among the finest produced during a golden age of illustration art. Through September 26, 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. 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. Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington “Northern Latitudes: The Frye and Alaska,” paintings of the wilderness, Mt. McKinley and northern light by Jules Dahlager and Theodore Richardson, among others. June 19–September 19, 2010. Getty Center, Los Angeles “The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, an important exhibition, organized in association with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Gérôme (1824–1902) was a hugely successful painter in his day, best known for his ancient Roman spectacles and Middle Eastern exotica. His reputation, at a low ebb in modernism’s peak, has been undergoing a critical revival. June 15–September 12, 2010. Getty Villa, Los Angeles “The Art of Ancient Greek Theater,” an international loan exhibition with artworks inspired by ancient plays and stagecraft. A performance of Sophocles’ Elektra is also scheduled. August 26, 2010–January 3, 2011. 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. Hispanic Society of America, New York City The Sorolla 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). James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania “Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club,” celebrating the 150th anniversary of the club, whose members included Eakins, Anshutz, N.C. Wyeth, Garber and Redfield, with watercolors and works on paper. August 21–November 21, 2010. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska “Beyond Impressionism: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet.” Through September 12, 2010. Legion of Honor, San Francisco “Impressionist Paris: City of Light,” with 150 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by, among others, Seurat, Degas and Cassatt. Through September 26, 2010. 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 “Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan,” building on the museum’s premier collection of drawings, showing the artist’s hand and the linear intuition that guides the great prints. May 18–September 12, 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 associated with reproductions of paintings. Works by Anders Zorn, Joseph Pennell and James Ensor are also included. April 17–August 15, 2010. Museum of Biblical Art, New York City “The Glory of Ukraine: Sacred Images from the Eleventh to the Nineteenth Centuries,” icons from the oldest monastery in Ukraine, along with liturgical objects. June 18–September 12, 2010. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900.” Baroque, Rococo, Romantic and Realist works acquired by a collector with strong personal tastes, including sheets by Elsheimer, designs for Bavarian church ceilings, architectural watercolors by Schinkel, spirited drawings by Menzel and Friedrich’s landscape New Moon above the Riesengebirge (1810). May 16–November 28, 2010. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut “Dan Truth: Realism/Impressionism,” still lifes and portraits by an American contemporary realist who studied in Spain. The still lifes, reflecting his admiration for Chardin and Meléndez, are particularly fine. Through September 2, 2010. Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island “The Japan Craze: Art and Craft in Rhode Island after 1854,” focusing on japonisme in American painting and decoration. June 12–October 17, 2010. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia “An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew,” with the cleaned and conserved painting recently saved for the city. July 24, 2010–January 9, 2011. 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. Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma “Realism Recovered: The Art of Burton Silverman, with around thirty-five works by this first rate contemporary artist, a keen observer of the human condition and a spirited paint-handler. July 8–September 3, 2010. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts “Luscious: Paintings by Emily Eveleth,” dramatically lit hyper-realist images of jam-filled Berliner or Bismarck doughnuts, some monumental in scale. July 9–October 24, 2010. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. “Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg,” with more than fifty paintings and drawings. The show should provide insights into the link between American anecdotal illustration and popular filmmaking. July 2, 2010–January 2, 2011. 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. Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia James Grashow’s Corrugated Fountain, a witty, large-scale sculpture in cardboard, usually considered a perishable medium, based on the iconography of Rome’s Bernini fountains. June 11, 2010–February 20, 2011. 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. The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York “Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend,” works in pencil, watercolor and tempera, mainly from the Farnsworth Museum in Maine. June 12–September 5, 2010. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia “Tiffany: Color and Light,” an important show of 180 objects from collections in North America, Europe and Russia, including eight newly restored windows. May 29–August 15, 2010. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland “Checkmate! Medieval People at Play,” with scenes from Books of Hours and other manuscripts depicting medieval pastimes. July 17–October 10, 2010. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield,” a touring retrospective of an important American pantheistic landscape painter. June 24–October 17, 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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