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Philadelphia Museum of Art: Thomas Eakins: American Realist
Eakins was one of the earliest American artists to
make photography an integral part of his creative process. For
the first time in a major retrospective of his work...
Frye Art Museum: Here I am - What We See and Think We Know
The Frye Art Museum's newest exhibition, Here I Am! Passages in Portraiture,
allows you to look at some old friends and new acquaintances to come to your
own definition. According to Debra Byrne, curator, "The magic of
portraiture can be pegge...
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art: Self/Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close
The portrait occupies a singular place in the history of American art. As a genre, these representations of self are layered visual accounts of actuality, desire, and projection. Historical portraits—too often taken at face value—are granted a ra...
Frye Art Museum: Heartland: The Paintings of Bo Bartlett
Bartlett’s powerful and engaging paintings fall well within the tradition of 20th-century American realism. Like American masters such as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett has looked at the people and land around him and in...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Jack Rutberg Fine Art: Peter Milton: Visions and Revisions
The etchings of Peter Milton have long been regarded as being among the
most intriguing, if not enigmatic works in American contemporary
printmaking. Defying easy categorization, Milton employs complex etching
techniques to create works of e...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
The exhibition is made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation, Inc.
Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
explained, From its in...
Mountclair Art Museum: Paris 1900: The American School at the Universal Exposition
Works of art exhibited in Paris have been lent by museums across the United States
and Europe, including Whistler's Symphony in White No. 2 from the Tate Gallery
...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Picturing the Banjo
"For more than two centuries, the banjo has played an integral role in
American history and culture and has inspired an eclectic array of
artists," said Sarah Cash, the Corcoran's Bechhoefer Curator of American
Art. "A highlight of the Corcoran...
Downtown Initiative For the Visual Arts: Jerry Ross: New and Retrospective Works
"I use the principles of abstraction to organize and compose, sometimes working in a single color while drawing out an infinity of subtle colors within that monochromatic base. My interest in portraiture is inspired by the Italian i macchiaioli, e...
Walker Art Center: Alice Neel: Portraits of People and Places
Born in suburban Philadelphia, Neel (1900-1984) led a
rich and colorful life filled with friends, lovers, family,
fellow artists, and a strong sense of community and social
activism. She became a painter at a time ...
Baltimore Museum of Art: Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris
“This is an exciting opportunity to showcase these well-known paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner alongside works from the BMA’s outstanding collection,” said BMA Director Doreen Bolger.
Tanner spent most of his career as an expatriate in Paris...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Expanding Horizons : Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
"The revolutionary approach of Expanding Horizons makes a major contribution to the understanding of landscape art in North America," said Kathleen Bartels director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Gallery is proud to offer visitors the first op...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: New Work: Tim Gardner, Marcelino Goncalves, Zak Smith
Each of the three artists looks to highly formal realist traditions yet departs from convention by employing familiar styles in unexpected ways, invariably inserting himself into the work. Keenly aware of the questionable status of realism as well...
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