July Gallery and Museum ListingsGallery 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. Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City “Desire,” paintings by Malcolm T. Liepke, bold, loosely brushed close-up portraits of strong, sultry women—realism with expressionist color. Through July 29, 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. D.C. Moore Gallery, New York City “Charles Curchfield: Highlights 1915–1966,” complementing the retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Through September 25, 2010. DFN Gallery, New York City “Unfinished Past,” a decade-long survey of works by David Mahler, who makes loosely brushed, mixed media versions of landscapes after Constable, Ruisdael and other masters. Through July 16, 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. 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 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. 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. 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. Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C. “Here and There,” landscapes of New York, Rhode Island, Maine, etc., in oil on linen. The artist, John Morell, is sensitive to the effects of seasonal light. Through July 17, 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. Galleries West Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming Jennifer L. Hoffman, recent graphite and pastel western landscapes with attractive tactile surfaces. Snowy scenes are reminiscent of Twachtman. July 2–18, 2010. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts “Contemporary American Masters,” with landscapes by Hale Johnson, dramatically lit interiors by Nick Patten and nudes by Evan Wilson, as well as Brother Thomas Bezanson’s Zen ceramics. Through July 31, 2010. Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. New paintings by Emma Tapley, whose meticulous landscapes—built up from imperceptible brushstrokes and glazes—have a conceptual edge; many are inverted in still-water reflections. June 10–August 7, 2010. John Pence Gallery, San Francisco Recent paintings by Nicholas Hiltner, whose cool, dark still lifes and nudes demonstrate a thoughtful feeling for the virtues of nineteenth-century academic art, especially the work of Chasseriau. July 1–31, 2010. Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California “Noctilucent,” acrylic paintings and prints by Susan Holcomb, semi-abstract yet convincingly illusionistic depictions of night skies. Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe “Naked,” a group show of realist paintings by a star line-up, including Graydon Parrish, Tony Curanaj, Daniel Sprick, Jacob Collins and Fred Wessel. July 1–30, 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. 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. 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. Blanton Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine “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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. “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. “From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice,” with sheets by Mantegna, Pontormo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Titian, among others, from the Getty’s collection. July 20–October 10, 2010. Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York “The Pleasures of Summer,” paintings and graphic illustrations by Winslow Homer. Through July 25, 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). 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 “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 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. 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. 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 “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008,” a retrospective of works by a clear-eyed depicter of America’s urban vistas. June 20–August 8, 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. 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 CollectionGlen 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 “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. 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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