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Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
Nationality: British
Movement: British School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
A child prodigy, Sir Thomas Lawrence was a portrait artist at the early age of six. He studied at the Royal Academy in London at the age of eighteen and began exhibiting. In 1792, he was appointed King George III’s Painter-in-Ordinary and subsequently became a famous and sought-after portraitist. Lawrence was knighted in 1815 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1820.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Lady Peel - Sir Thomas Lawrence 1827 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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Thomas Lawrence Engravings from the choicest Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Henry Graves & Co., [ca. 1846] book with mezzotint engravings 1846
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Thomas Lawrence Nature, plate 1 in the book, Engravings from the choicest Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Henry Graves & Co., [ca. 1846] mezzotint engraving 1835
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Portrait of a Man Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil on canvas; 50 3/8 x 40
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John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil on canvas; 36 x 28 in.
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Samuel Cousins Portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence Mezzotint 19th century
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James Thomson Stipple or Chalk (portrait of a woman painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence) after page 62,eighth illustration in the book The Art of Engraving by T. H. Fielding (London: Ackermann & Co., 1844) stipple engraving 1844
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Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, 1790 Sir Thomas Lawrence
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The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818-1906, and Laura Anne, 1820-1894), 1823 Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil
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Lady Harriet Maria Conyngham (died 1843), Later Lady Somerville Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil on
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Thomas Lawrence Anna Maria Dashwood, later Marchioness of Ely oil on canvas circa 1805
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Thomas Lawrence Other Archer, Earl of Plymouth oil on canvas circa 1817
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Thomas Lawrence Mary, Countess of Plymouth oil on canvas circa 1817
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Thomas Lawrence Charlotte Georgina Jerningham, later Lady Lovat oil on canvas 1823
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Thomas Lawrence Laura Calmady chalk 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Lawrence Emily Calmady chalk 18th - 19th century
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Chester Harding - Amos Lawrence c. 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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James Bard - Steamer "St. Lawrence" 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Lawrence - Ewan Law, M.P. 1788-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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Thomas Lawrence Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons Graphite on wove paper mounted on a heavier sheet circa 1790
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Thomas Lawrence Lady Seymour black chalk and red watercolor on paper mounted to heavier support circa 1825
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Salomon de Bray - The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence 1652 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Gilbert Stuart - Lawrence Reid Yates 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Lawrence - Samuel Woodburn c. 1820 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Mrs. Jens Wolff 1803-15 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago English
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Mrs. Robert Blencowe c. 1792 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Thomas Lawrence - Mrs. Frederick Hemming c. 1824-25 oil on panel Kimbell Art Museum English
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Thomas Lawrence - Frederick H. Hemming c. 1824-25 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum English
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Gherardo di Jacopo Starnina - A Bishop Saint and Saint Lawrence c. 1404-1407 tempera and gold on Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Gherardo di Jacopo Starnina - A Bishop Saint and Saint Lawrence c. 1404-1407 tempera and gold on Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Roy De Forest - The Dipolar Girls Take a Voyage on the St. Lawrence 1970 acrylic, polymer and Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Gentile da Fabriano - Madonna and Child, with Sts. Lawrence and Julian c. 1423-25 tempera on panel The Frick Collection Italian
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© Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation ; Jacob Lawrence,
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Sir Thomas Lawrence, British, 1769-1830 William Lock of Norbury 1790 Oil on canvas 76.3 x
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of a Young Girl 1790-1825 pastel Arkansas Arts Center British
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Admiral Frank Sotheron 1809 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester British
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Zanobi Strozzi - Saints Nicolas, Lawrence and John the Baptist c. 1450 tempera and gold lea The Hyde Collection Italian
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Rembrandt Peale, American, 1778-1860 Duke of Wellington (copy after Sir Thomas Lawrence) about 1818 Oil
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Thomas Lawrence - Charlotte and Sarah Hardy 1801 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Jan Albertsz Rootius, Dutch, 1615-1674 Portrait of a Boy Oil on panel 127 x 101.6
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Niccolo di Liberatore and Niccolo da Foligno, Italian, active in 1456-1502 Saint Lawrence, Saint Gregory,
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Follower of John Constable, British, 1776-1837 A Heath Oil on canvas 82 x 95.5 cm
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Charles Stewart Butler and Lawrence Smith Butler 1880-1881 plaster National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Thomas Lawrence, British, 1769-1830 Sir Uvedale Price, Baronet about 1799 Oil on canvas 76.2
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Unidentified artist, British, 19th century Cottage with Cows and Cowherds by a River Oil on
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Andrew Lawrence La Conversation Engraving 1742
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Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Arthur Atherley as an Etonian c. 1791 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Arthur Atherley as an Etonian c. 1791 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Bernardus Johannes Blommers, Dutch, 1845-1914 Dunes in Holland Watercolor on paper Sight: 27.6 x 45.1
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Sir Thomas Lawrence, British, 1769-1830 Portrait of a Man in a Blue Coat Oil on
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Gilbert Stuart - Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis) 1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son 1802 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Studio of Sir Godfrey (Gottried) Kneller, British, 1646-1723 Portrait of a Woman (said to be
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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch, 1824-1903 A Windmill in Holland late 19th century Watercolor on cardboard
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Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, ca. 1175-1180; Romanesque English; Made in Canterbury, KentPot-metal glass, vitreous paint;
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Johan Frederik Thaulow, Norwegian, 1847-1906 River View Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
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Andrew Lawrence La Conversation Red chalk and graphite 1742
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Georges Michel, French, 1763-1843 Windmill on a Bluff Oil on paper mounted on canvas 55
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Johan Frederik Thaulow, Norwegian, 1847-1906 Abbeville Oil on canvas 73.5 x 92.5 cm (28 15/16
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Lawrence Beall Smith Skaters Lithograph 1939
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Lawrence Beall Smith Frolic Lithograph 20th century
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Lawrence Beall Smith Museum Visitor Lithograph 1939
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Lawrence Beall Smith Solitude Lithograph 1940
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Jean Léon Gérôme, French, 1824-1904 Oasis about 1857 Oil on canvas 65.1 x 82 cm
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Anonymous Portrait of a Lady daguerreotype 19th century
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Where the ships go out Drypoint 1924
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Estuary Etching 1920
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Bolinas Bay Etching 1921
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Landscape Etching 1921
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Old Habitations Etching 1920
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Sundown Drypoint 1923
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Ebb Tide Etching 1923
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Marie Danforth Page, American, 1869-1940 Frances Lee Weeks 1922 Oil on canvas 121.92 x 83.82
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Lawrence Barrett Eagle In Repose Lithograph 20th century
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Camille Pissarro, French (born in the Danish West Indies), 1830-1903 Two Peasant Women in a
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Lawrence Norris Scammon San Francisco--Mt. Tamalpais Drypoint 1927
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Lawrence Beall Smith Windy Hill Lithograph 20th century
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Lawrence Beall Smith Forest Flight Lithograph 20th century
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Henry Wolf [Samuel Lawrence] 19th - 20th century
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Eucalyptus Trees Etching 1931
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Lawrence Norris Scammon A Waterfront Habitation Drypoint 1924
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Lawrence Norris Scammon A Roadside Tree Etching 1921
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Richard Houston Stringer Lawrence, Esq. Mezzotint 18th century
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Louis Eugène Boudin, French, 1824-1898 Quay at Villefranche 1892 Oil on canvas 50.7 x 74.6
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Oakland Estuary Etching 1924
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Lake Tahoe Lithograph 1929
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Golden Gate, San Francisco Drypoint 1927
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Lawrence Norris Scammon Eucalyptus Trees by the Water Drypoint 1928
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Andrea di Bartolo The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence tempera on panel early 15th century
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Pool Parlor, 1942 Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)Gouache on paper; H. 31, W. 22-3/4 in. (78.7
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Lawrence Kupferman Saratoga Springs Victorian Drypoint 20th century
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Chester Harding, American, 1792-1866 Abbott Lawrence about 1842 Oil on canvas 73.34 x 46.99 cm
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Lawrence Norris Scammon hargen's Book Shop, San Francisco Etching 1920
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John Henry Hill Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroads watercolor circa late 19th century
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New England Glass Co. Egg cup Bulls eye or Lawrence lead glass circa 1850
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Itinerant Harpist etching 1878
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The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (verso) Giving Drink to the Thirsty Master of the Acts
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Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, British, 1828-1882 Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed) 1859 Oil
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Chester Harding, American, 1792-1866 Annie Bigelow Lawrence 1831 Oil on paperboard 58.42 x 48.26 cm
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Chester Harding, American, 1792-1866 Mrs. Abbott Lawrence (Katherine Bigelow) about 1855 Oil on canvas 69.53

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Killarney Art Gallery: John Lawrence: A Glorious Field of Poppies
John is a painter of light and colour, who likes to work in front of his subject. His landscapes have captured both the stunning beauty of Ireland’s countryside and the admiration of collectors and art lovers around the world. His recent pa...

Lawrence Gallery Portland: Amanda Dunbar, Oils
The paintings depict the tropical richness of the Fiji landscapes. Dunbar was captivated by all she saw and experienced on her travels. A rising star in the art world, Amanda Dunbar’s amazing talent has captivated thousands of art fans, incl...

Lawrence Gallery Portland: New Works by Painter Ann Ruttan
Patron’s of Ruttan’s work will be dazzled by her new collection as they are revealed in the main gallery on 1st Thursday, September 1st. Those seeking Ruttan’s work for the first time, should look forward to large scale canvases which mirror t...

Neuberger Museum of Art: Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Lawrence Gussman Collection of African Art
These works will be included in a major exhibition of central African art that will travel to the Israel Museum, the
Lawrence Street Gallery:
Abstract Odyssey: Anita Boulan-Stromberg and Sri Guha
"My love of nature combined with my interest in color and texture lead me to create paintings and prints that can be described as abstract landscapes. Some are purely about color and design, while others reflect feelings. My latest endeavor is cre...

Lawrence Street Gallery: Title: 32 - Celebrating a New Space with Gallery Fundraiser
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The 32 artists of the Lawrence Street Gallery create unique artistic pieces in a wide range of media including ...
Physics Room:
'Through my repeated attempts to repair the window, I have developed pneumonia' by Robert Hood and Simon Lawrence
Their Physics Room project is an extension of the artists' collaborative practice and interest in narrative, with the addition of computer aided video pieces and further functional sculptural elements exploring the neurosis of the modern-day o...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions--Ron Mueck

Ron Muecks sculptures, though inanimate, seem alive---eyes are wet, vessels swell with blood, and you can almost feel the heat and breath emanating off the body, says Lawrence. The skewed sizes of the figures give this realism a psychological e...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Bent & Broken Shafts of Light Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner's material is language. For him, language serves as the universal and infinitely versatile medium for the communication of an artistic intention He always uses language concretely, never metaphorically. When he says stone, wate...

Lawrence Street Gallery: Two Solo Exhibitions of Paintings by Patrice Erickson and Margaret Nern
Patrice Erickson's pieces are rendered in oil using traditional painting techniques. "Working in a contemporary realistic manner challenges me both technically and emotionally. I strive to present the viewer with recognizable imagery that suggests...

Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Lawrence Weiner: AFTER ALL/NACH ALLES
. His art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth. A work can be made or merely spelled out on a museum wall, but it can also be read in a book or heard if uttered aloud. In a radical restructuring of the traditional artist/viewer relations...

Lawrence Gallery Portland: Yuri Tremler and Jacek Rudnicki OIls
Yuri Tremler's striking and spontaneous palette clearly expresses a gamut of emotional states and moods. Painted with the accuracy of a designer and the delicacy of a colorist, his works both inspire and calm. He uses the female form and contrasts...

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints – Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L’Ouverture
Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own expe...

Memphis Brooks Museum: In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is an honor for the Brooks to be selected as a venue for this important and moving Smithsonian exhibition," said Kaywin Feldman, Director of the Brooks. "We hope that no child in our community will miss this unique opportunity to experience Ki...

ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center: Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections
Rhapsody includes works by Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Robert Colescott, Renée Cox, Charles Gaines, Sam Gilliam, Eugene Grigsby, ...

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: An Acre of Art
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Kunstlerhaus Cinema: MOVED PICTURES OF LAWRENCE WEINER
Weiner’s filmmaking represents a continuous line of concerns in his oeuvre. Capturing reality in moved pictures in context with his statements and linguistic structures, the films are cha...

Binney and Smith Gallery, Banana Factory: Native American Potter Lawrence Namoki
“Lawrence uses only clay native to Hopi land, natural dyes for the painted surface of his works and the traditional Hopi firing process using sheep dung,” says Banana Factory Director Diane LaBelle. “Anyone who visits the Banana Factory while he’...

Tullie House Museum and Art Services: Eyemusic, the Creators of ColourDome: Fabulous Sound Machines
All of the individual sound sculptures are framed in a world of colour created by artist Peter Jones and composers Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher. Other contributors include Johannes Bergmark, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley, Dan Knight and Will ...

Cleveland Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint
Lawrence, who moved to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, was influenced and stimulated by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W. E. B. DuBois, who fostered pride...

Norton Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence was raised in Harlem where he not only witnessed the poverty and prejudice that most African-Americans faced in th...

Tacoma Art Museum: Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
Evans, who grew up in Georgia and South Carolina, became interested in art when he began visiting museums while he was in the U.S. Navy during the ...

Cincinnati Art Museum: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection
Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and touring with the assistance of the Denver Art Museum. Supported by an ...

Corning Museum of Glass: Museum Film Wins Best of Show and Gold Awards
Dreams Into Glass won the Best of Show Grand Award for best informational production. 1999 Grand Award winners were selected by The New York Festivals' international board of judges from the highest scoring Gold WorldMedalists in the competiti...

ArtSpace: GLOW: Reiko Aoyagi, Phillipa Lawrence, Artstation
Focussing on the possibilities of these elements either metaphorically or literally, the artists will work with a range of materials to produce large scale, site specific installations involving 600 gold-leaf covered light bulbs, huge inflatable ...

Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Oakville Galleries: Weathervane: Curated by Karen Love
The exhibition features works by Marlene Creates, Paterson Ewen, Rodney Graham, Tania Kitchell, Mark Lewis, Richard Rhodes, Seifollah Samadian, Alan Storey, T & T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner and Chris Welsby. ...

Whitney Museum of American Art: The Whitney Biennial 2002 Opens in New York
The 113 artists and collaborative teams in the exhibition represent a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and sensibilities. Established artists, like sculptor Kiki Smith, painter Vija Celmins, filmmaker Ken Jacobs, and composer ...

Art Gallery of Ontario: Present Tense 23: Jonathan Monk
Monk was born in 1972 in Leicester, England.Spanning painting, performance, installation, photography, and video, and alluding to a wide variety of both autobiographical and art historical references, the work of Jonathan Monk defies categorisa...

William Havu Gallery: Three Dimensions: Lawrence Argent, Stephen Daly, Mary Bates Neubauer and David Mazza
Stephen Daly is the area head of the sculpture department at the University of Texas, Austin. We will be showing his large cast bronze piece "Controller" as well as a selection of other works. Daly works in many mediums including cast aluminum, ...

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