Gallery Listings

“Layered Luminescence: The Art of Egg Tempera,” a show focusing on contemporary practice in the historical medium, featuring Doug Safranek’s miniature urban scenes, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov’s Symbolist iconography, Fred Wessel’s early Italian Renaissance-style portraits and works by acknowledged master practitioner Robert Vickrey. March 26–May 2, 2009.

Allen Gallery, New York City

“Four Seasons,” Martin Weinstein’s oil-on-acrylic-sheets paintings combine a Romantic’s love of cloudscapes, in the Constable manner, with a surreal manipulation of picture planes. Through March 14, 2009.

D.C. Moore Gallery, , New York City

Janet Fish, colorful, loosely brushed still lifes by a painter fascinated by the effects of light, transparency and distortion. Through March 14, 2009.

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York City

Glenn Harrington, the painter’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Harrington’s loosely brushed oils have a low-key anecdotal charm, and his interiors mix natural and artificial light to good effect. March 12–April 5, 2009.

Fischback Gallery,New York City

Colin Brown, “The Sunless Sea,” striking views of New York City by night. Brown’s technique for his “Blackboards” entails applying a pitch-black layer of nickel, carbon or charcoal to a white undersurface, then picking out urban lights using a jeweler’s tool. March 5–March 28, 2009.

Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York City

“Thirteen Miles from Paradise,” four large-scale ( 90-by-75 inches) scenes of an industrial town, Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Composite images of surprising beauty, the four canvases are also meditations on the four seasons. Through March 14, 2009. Travels to the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (April 10–June 14, 2009).

Sears-Peyton Gallery, , New York City

“A Natural Order,” serene landscapes by Clay Wagstaff, who uses the Fabonacci series to capture the “blueprint or spiritual design behind everything”. Beyond the mathematics of composition, the artist layers color in subtle ways and has a keen eye for natural detail. Through March 28, 2008.

Forum Gallery, Los Angeles

Bo Bartlett, new paintings by a contemporary realist as interested in oblique storytelling as he is the effects of light. Through April 18, 2009.

Hackett-Freeman Gallery, San Francisco

Raimonds Staprans, abstracted landscapes and still lifes with strong geometric compositions and boldly colored negative space. March 12–May 2, 2009.
 
Marc Trujillo. The artificial light-boxes of fast food drive-throughs are depicted with unexpected compositional rigor in these oil paintings. March 12–May 2, 2009.

Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe

“Evenly Scattered,” a group show of paintings, photography and assemblage by eight artists. The sharp-edged realism of Toby Boothman and the brushy, decorative figure printings of Gregory Calibey stand out. March 6–April 6, 2009.

Museums

“The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860–1989,” a sprawling exhibition of 250 objects, including literature as well as the visual arts. Works by Whistler, Cassatt and La Farge highlight the section on Aestheticism and Japan, while Dove, O’Keeffe and Noguchi illustrate the Asian cross-currents of early modernism. January 30–April 19, 2009.

Morgan Library and Museum, New York City

“The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions since 2002,” another installment in a series featuring promised gifts by collector Eugene V. Thaw. This group of eighty works includes sheets by Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, the talented amateur artist Goethe and the Nazarenes. Through May 3, 2009.

“Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection,” more promised gifts, concentrating on the nineteenth-century heyday of the genre. Through August 30, 2009.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” fifty-seven paintings by the great sixteenth-century masters, focusing on their career rivalries and their development of the craft of oil painting. Standouts include Titian’s Flora and Danäe, and Tintoretto’s Susannah and the Elders. March 15–August 16, 2009. Travels to the Musée du Louvre, Paris (September 16, 2009–January 4, 2010).

National Academy Museum, New York City

“American Waters: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Hudson, Fulton and Champlain,” a collection show with fifty works, from 1850 to 2000, depicting the nation’s vital waterways. Artists include Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, Daniel Garber, Wolf Kahn, John F. Kensett, William Trost Richards and N.C. Wyeth. February 4–April 5, 2009.

National Gallery of Art,Washington, D.C

“Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age,” forty-eight paintings and twenty-two maps illustrating how Amsterdam, Delft and the Hague became subjects in themselves as centers of artistic and economic success in the seventeenth century. Featured artists include Jacob van Ruisdael and Gerrit Berckheyde. Through May 3, 2009.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian,” forty oversize and multipart woodcuts and engravings from a golden age of graphic art, suggesting the epic pictorial ambition of Northern and Italian Renaissance masters. January 31–April 26, 2009.

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery,” a traveling exhibition of paintings, prints and decorative arts from the Colonial period to the Gilded Age. Fresh evidence of why university art collections are vital to the nation’s cultural well-being. Through May 25, 2009. Travels to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (October 4, 2009–January 10, 2010).

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut

Renwick Gallery, “The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene,” 131 objects—including furniture, stained glass, architectural drawings and photographs—from the California masters of the Arts and Crafts movement. March 13–June 7, 2009.

Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

An exhibition of egg tempera paintings by contemporary master Robert Vickrey, in association with the publication of Philip Eliasoph’s Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism. March 23–April 26, 2009.

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

“Saint John’s Bible,” featuring pages from a project undertaken by Saint John’s University in Minnesota, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript Bible by contemporary scribe-artist Donald Jackson. Supplemented by a demonstration of scriptorium practice. February 15–May 24, 2009.

“The Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts.” The thirteenth-century Old French allegorical poem, immensely popular and lavishly illustrated in its own time, became one of the seminal influences in the evolution of the Western notion of romantic love. January 24–April 19, 2009.

“Rembrandt Peale’s Portrait of John Meer: A New Addition to the American Art Collection.” The principal work is supported by another of Rembrandt Peale’s portraits, Rubens Peale with a Geranium, as well as Renaissance, Baroque and modern paintings using skull iconography, a signature element of the Meer portrait. March 4–August 23, 2009.