Gallery Listings

ACA 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.

 

Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City

New paintings by Michael Klein, a New York painter just returned from five years in Buenos Aires, with introspective figures-in-interiors and still lifes in a muted palette. His academic skill with the figure is nuanced by moods of almost-Spanish austerity, and his handling of oil on linen yields interesting textures. May 13–28, 2010.

 

Babock Galleries, New York City

“From the Light of Distant Skies: A Selection of Nineteenth-Century American Paintings,” including Edward Moran’s Niagara Falls (c. 1865–75). April 8–June 11, 2010.

 

Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York City

“Summer Sweets,” a gallery known for its photorealist roster presents a confectionery still-life show, with foodstuffs that teeter between natural and artificial. Roberto Bernardi’s jars of hard candy in psychedelic colors, sleekly painted, stand out. May 6–29, 2009.

 

Davis & Langdale, New York City

“Albert York: A Memorial Exhibition.” York (1928–2009), once described by Calvin Tompkins as “the most highly admired unknown artist in America,” balanced traditional forms—figures, landscapes, a particularly handsome geranium—with bold, painterly brushwork. April 10–June 11, 2010.

 

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York City

Recent oil paintings by Iain Faulkner, whose figures-in-interiors have a film noir sensibility. For some works, the Scottish artist adds gold leaf, wax and pastel to collage for surface interest. May 6–June 6, 2010.

 

Fischbach Gallery, New York City

“Nocturnes and Diurnes,” recent paintings by Alice Dalton Brown, a veteran artist who continues to find visual possibilities in her signature composition, focusing on the threshold between interior and exterior. Floor-length windows, often framed by diaphanous curtains, set the stage for explorations of light and shadow. April 22–May 22, 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.

 

George Billis Gallery, New York City

Recent paintings by Derek Buckner, depicting the play of light and shadow over undulating drapery, often filling the frame. A breakthrough from earlier works (aerial views of highway overpasses, etc.), these images have a classical feel. April 20–May 22, 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.

 

Arden Gallery, Boston

“Provence and Tuscany,” landscapes by Margaret Gerding. Despite the specificity of the exhibition title, these vibrant paintings—many in a square format—are essentially color meditations on fields, trees and sky, in a palette of asparagus green, lavender and magenta. May 4–31, 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.

 

Chase Gallery, Boston

Still lifes and interiors by Michael Zigmond, who uses intense artificial light that solarizes an aura around simple arrangements of fruit and flowers. May 5–30, 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.
 
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.

 

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.

 

Susan Powell Fine Art, Madison, Connecticut

“New York Scenes,” recent paintings by Vincent Giarrano, brushy images of urban life. His apartment interiors have a Hopperesque quality, but the most appealing pictures feature Soho cast-iron storefronts. May 7–June 13, 2010.

 

William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts

Landscape exhibition, with the best work coming from Mallory Lake, Steven Grabar, who combines charcoal, watercolor and acrylic for atmospheric black-and-white images, and Dennis Sheehan, whose autumnal woods show the influence of George Inness. April 21– June 5, 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.

 

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.

 

Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, New York

“American Tonalism: Paintings of Poetry and Soul,” including works by George Inness, from this small museum’s American collection. Through June 6, 2010.

 

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.

 

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

“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.

 

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.

 

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 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.

 

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.

 

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).

 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

“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.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

“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.
 
“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.
 
“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.
 
“Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art and Landscape Design,” books, prints, drawings and literary manuscripts exploring the central place of nature in the Romantic revolution, in England, France, Germany and the United States, with special attention to Olmsted’s Central Park in New York City. May 21–August 29, 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.

 

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
 
“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 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.

 

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

“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.

 

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island

“Rapid Gestures: Waterfalls in British Romantic Art,” with works by Turner, Constable, Cozens and Edward Lear. Through June 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

“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.