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Artist: Irma Stern ( - ) Biography:
Irma Stern was a South African painter who studied in Germany from 1913 to 1920. Her greatest influence was Expressionism and she played a huge role in introducing modern art to South Africa. When she first displayed her work in her native country, it was controversial. There is now a museum of her art located in Cape Town.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Arnold Genthe - Irma Duncan, Isadora Duncan Dancer c. 1915-16 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Irma Fischer, Hungarian Sewing sampler Hungary, about 1885 Cotton plain weave embroidered with silk 26
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Alexander Stern Portsmouth Square, San Francisco (Stevenson Monument) Etching 1927
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Henry Wolf Mr. Louis Stern 19th - 20th century
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Paul Filhon Stern Details black and red ink 18th - 19th century
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Kisui [Stern of moored ship] color woodcut 1867
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Paul Filhon Stern Section black, blue and red ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Sketch of the Stern of the Ship La RÈgÈnÈrÈe graphite 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern/Transom of a Ship black ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern of Ship black, red and blue ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern /Transom of a ship black ink 18th - 19th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Ernst Stern Sumurum (1 of 12 lithographs in portfolio) Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Paul Filhon Stern Section with Carved Details black and red ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern Detail of a Ship black and red ink and watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern of the Ship Le Magettueu(?) watercolor over graphite 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern /Transom and Bow for the Ship Lamphitrite black ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern /Transom and Bow for the Ship Duquesne black ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern /Transom and Bow for the Ship Hebe black ink 18th - 19th century
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Stern Are you 100% American? - World War I Poster lithograph poster circa 1917 - 1918
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Matthew Brady Portrait of Major-General Isaac I. Stern engraving 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern/Transom Details of the Ship Jena black and blue ink 18th - 19th century
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Paul Filhon Stern/Transom Details of the Ship L'OcÈan black and blue ink 18th - 19th century
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Toby E. Rosenthal Two Monks, Study for the painting Sleeping Cardinal (Jacob Stern Collection, 1928.53) graphite circa 1896
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Six Apostles Spanish (Oña) Painter, late 15th centuryTempera on wood, gold ground; Overall 35 1/8
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The Massacre of the Innocents, predella panel, ca. 1470 Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro
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The Adoration of the Magi, predella panel, ca. 1470 Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro
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Madonna and Child, fragment, ca. 1280 Master of the Magdalen (Italian, Florentine, active 1265-95)Tempera on
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Saint John on Patmos, Madonna and Child Enthroned, and Death of the Virgin; The Crucifixion,
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Madonna and Child Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by 1236)Tempera on wood, gold
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Madonna and Child, probably 1440s Jacopo Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active 1424-70)Tempera on wood, gold ground;
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Camille Pissarro, French (born in the Danish West Indies), 1830-1903 The Quarry at the Hermitage,
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Saint Clare, part of an altarpiece, ca. 1330 Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) (Italian, Sienese,
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Madonna and Child; Saint John the Baptist; Saint Jerome, portable triptych, ca. 1450-55 Sano di
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Hugo Kauffmann His Best Customer oil on panel 1890
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Marie Wunsch On the Lookout oil on canvas 1890
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Arthur Putnam Puma Reclining bronze 1908
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Adolphe Schreyer A La Fontaine oil on canvas 19th century
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Anton Mauve In the Pasture oil on canvas 19th century
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Arthur Putnam Puma Reclining bronze 1908
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Alice Schille Girl with Parrot oil on ivory 20th century
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Antoine Louis Barye Deer bronze 19th century
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Jacob Maris Harbor of Amsterdam oil on canvas 1872
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Albert Neuhuys Flirtation oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Johannes Bosboom Church in Hague oil on panel 19th century
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Carl Martin Raschen Old Man's Head oil on canvas 19th century
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Kitchen Etching 1858
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pierrot Etching 1889
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John Henry Twachtman Brush House oil on canvas circa 1895
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J. Frank Currier Still Life with Fish oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Georges Michel Harbor Scene oil on panel 18th - 19th century
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Jacob Maris View of Old Delft oil on canvas circa 1865
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Joost van Geel A Dutch Interior oil on canvas 17th century
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Jules Dupre The Frog Pool oil on canvas 19th century
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John Henry Twachtman Mother and Child oil on canvas circa 1895
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Carl Kronberger Bavarian Logger oil on panel 19th - 20th century
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Alice Schille Shrub Trees watercolor on paper early 20th century
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Beggars Etching 1879 - 1880
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Nocturne Etching 1879 - 1880
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Old Battersea Bridge Etching 1879
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Music Room Etching 1858
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Alfred von Wierusz Kowalski Merry Ride oil on panel 19th - 20th century
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Julius Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuysen The Woodcutters oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Charles Emile Jacque Shephard with Flock oil on panel 19th century
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Charles Emile Jacque Landscape with Sheep oil on panel 19th century
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Gabriel Alexandre Decamps Kiosque oil on canvas 19th century
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Antonio Amorosi Young Girl with Basket (Jeune Fille au Panier) oil on canvas 1670
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Johann Georg Meyer (Meyer von Bremen) Blind Man's Bluff oil on canvas 1864
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William M. Auerbach-Levy The New Talmud etching 19th - 20th century
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Frank Brangwyn A Mosque, Constantinople (The Mosque of Ortakevi) etching on zinc 1911
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Johan Barthold Jongkind Moonlight oil on canvas 1853
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena Wood Interior oil on panel 1852
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena Flowers oil on canvas 19th century
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Rosa Bonheur Stag on the Watch graphite and watercolor on cream wove paper circa 1883
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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater Country Party (Fete Champetre) oil on panel 17th - 18th century
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Toby E. Rosenthal Seine Madonna oil on canvas 1908
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Jozef IsraÎls David and Saul transparent and opaque watercolor and pastel 19th - 20th century
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Charles-FranÁois Daubigny Valmondois oil on canvas 19th century
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Muirhead Bone A Roman Aqueduct graphite and wash on paper 19th - 20th century
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Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael A Cabin on the Hill oil on panel 17th century
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LÈon-Augustin Lhermitte The Reaper (Le Faucheur) pastel on cream laid paper on canvas circa 1890 - 1900
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Doorway Etching and drypoint with roulette printed in brown 1879 - 1880
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Anonymous Salomonis Templum (Temple of Solomon), page 446 from an unidentified book etching circa 17th century
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Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever Dutch Farm House oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Antoine-Louis Barye
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Adolf von Menzel Meissonier's Studio oil on panel circa 1880 - 1889
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Adolf von Menzel Nach Dem Diner opaque watercolor on paper 1885
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Unidentified Man Seated Reading a Newspaper
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Girl in Fulton Street, New York
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Jean-François Millet

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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SCENE Metrospace: Cir*cus/Car*ni*val
Stern sates about her work, "I play God(dess), attributing characteristics to my medium and by being consistent within one piece, I aim to convince the audience of their validity. In some instances, I find, recreate, and reinforce the parallels ...

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: Max Stern: The Taste of a Dealer. Works from Private Collections Acquired Through the Dominion Gallery
Max Stern was born in Germany in 1904. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1928 after having pursued studies in art history throughout Europe.  Stern moved to England during the Second World War and subsequently immigrated to Ca...

Joao Ferreira Fine Art: Change no Sorry
Featured works in the exhibition are by Sue Williamson, Mark Hipper, Bridgit Baker (currently in residence at Stellenbosch University), Helen Johnson, Kim Stern, Steven Cohen, William Kentridge, Nicola Jackson, Eris Silke Ro...

Menil Collection: From Above: Photographs of Houston by Alex S. MacLean
FROM ABOVE, curated by Susan Davidson of The Menil Collection and architect William F. Stern, of the Rice Design Alliance, brings an ...

FACT Gallery: Darkly Comic: Marina Zurkow and Eddo Stern
Zurkow and Stern mix arti-fact and fiction in an exhibition that betrays a curious interest in teen culture. Zurkow's colourful, interactive videos reflect the dark undercurrents of sugar-coated teen comix culture on a grand scale, while Stern use...

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo
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g-module: Michael Rodriguez: Recent Paintings
Michael Rodriguez’s acrylic paintings of the late 1990s were a complex and excessive mixture of seductive orbs, ritualistically painted amidst digital like fissures, colorfield patches of negative space and constructions of lines. The paintings, r...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: California Pottery: From Mission to Modernism
Drawn exclusively from California collections, the approximately 180 pieces in the exhibition are a selection from producers throughout the state. IMAGE:
May Hamilton de Causse and Geneviève Hamilton
Platter, Rippled...

Plus Ultra Gallery: Rosemarie Fiore: Solo Exhibition
A collaboration between artist Joshua Stern and independent curator Ed Winkleman, Plus Ultra Gallery began as a ground-floor gallery near the corner of South 1st and Roebling Streets in May 2001. Still committed to their initial goal of offering a...

Irma Stern Museum: Malcolm Payne: Illuminated Manuscripts
This is achieved through dissonance, both in the improbable affinities or groupings assigned to these (non-menacing) objects and how they are re-fashioned in powerful software applications that causes damage to their structural coherence. He delib...

Lump gallery/projects: Conglomerates: Randy Wray
“Randy Wray has developed a lexicon that is uniquely his own. He makes abstract ceramic sculpture, photographs it and then scans the photos into a computer then altering their structure. The resultant paint-by-number schematic of 43 colors acts as...

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: IMPRESSIONISM TO THE PRESENT: CAMILLE PISSARRO AND HIS DESCENDANTS
The Pissarro exhibition will feature 156 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro, known as the Father of Impressionism, and works created by his sons, grandchildren and great-granddaughter. Museum visitors will have a rare op...

Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida: Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to th Holocaust
BITTERSWEET LEGACY is a collection of art and poetry inspired by the Holocaust. The artists are people from many walks of life who have creatively attempted to understand and give form to their sorrow and quest for meaning.Moskowitz Brody is th...

Parker's Box: Distant Shores: Jason Glasser, Karolyn Hatton, Janine Lariviere, Bruno Peinado, Stefan Sehler, Joshua Stern, Fabien Verschaere
Ambiguity is a great tool here, especially when the origins and identity of characters or settings are hidden or veiled. In the work of Berlin-based artist, Stefan Sehler, his mountain paintings at first sight suggest a realistic representat...

Yale School of Architecture Galleries: New Blue: Recent Work of Graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, 1978-1998
Our graduates have historically been leaders of the profession for generations, said Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture. This is the generation that was raised in the post-modernism debate of the 1980s, and they are now flourish...

Laguna Art Museum: California Holiday: The E. Gene Crain Collection
Support for the exhibition has been provided by the Festival of Arts Foundation, the City of Laguna Beach, the Fieldstone Foundation, Jim and Martha Newkirk, John and Barbara Bing, the late Rex Brandt, Gerald and Bente Buck, Mary and Matt Lawson, ...

Stephen Cohen Gallery: Bollywood Dreams – Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik
Born in 1969 in Tel Aviv, Jonathan Torgovnik lived in Israel until his early 20’s. He began his career as a combat photographer in the Israeli army. "The army was my real school of photography. It was very unorganized. They just told me to go ...

Plains Art Museum: Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist from Montmartre
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was the consummate bohemian artist of Parisian nightlife, creating scenes that would later come to define the era and its famed cabaret, the Moulin Rouge. Considered one of the most innovative artists of the l...

UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH - UNIVERSITY MUSEUM: CECILY SASH: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
During 1955-75 Sash lectured art at the University of the Witwatersrand. Some of her students are now well known artists and art educators, for example Judith Mason, Terry King and Greg Kerr. During the forties Sash herself studied as an artis...

Broadway Gallery: Winard Staring: Abstraction In The Elements - On A Water Note
"They walk the invisible line between abstraction and figuration and, given the unpredictable qualities of his subject, he managed to have it both ways... The artist’s works move from tormented reds to chilling Saharan yellows, and through a hu...

Sothebys.com: The Art Of Henry Moore
At the core of this sale is a collection of drawings, prints and small sculptures from the Estate of Dr. Max Stern, who, as the director of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal was for many years one of the major dealers of Henry Moore in Canada. ...

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: Camille Pissarro and his Descendants
The exhibition will feature 157 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro as well as works created by his five sons, three grandchildren and his great-granddaughter. This exhibition follows the same concept as Camille Pis...

Yale School of Architecture Galleries: Saving Corporate Modernism: Assessing Three Landmarks Designed by Gordon Bunshaft.
The Lever House in New York City, the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and the Connecticut headquarters of the Emhart Manufacturing Company incorporate the work of many of the most innovative designers of their time. In addition to Buns...

Beall Center for Art and Technology - University of California, Irvine: SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games and Art
Festival Content: Game Mods The availability of commercial game engines that allow users to create their own game "mods," or modifications, has allowed independent designers, artists and small teams to produce innovative new games, genres and aes...

Yale School of Architecture Galleries: 2 Views of Eero Saarinen: The Architectural Photography of Balthazar Korab and Ezra Stoller
This exhibition celebrates the work of two great architectural photographers who were closely associated with a great architect, Eero Saarinen, Robert A.M. Stern, dean of Yale School of Architecture, commented. Through the interpretive photograph...

Open Studio: A Group Show: Briar Craig, Elizabeth Forrest, Leah Oates, Elena Roginsky, Rochelle Rubinstein
Briar Craig is a Kelowna-based artist with an MVA in printmaking from the University of Alberta, and BFA from Queen’s University. He has exhibited across Canada as well as in Poland, Japan, and Ireland. The recipient of numerous grants, his work i...

Austin Museum of Art: Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
In the past, many South African artists, whatever their background, created art that predominantly sought to bring down apartheid. Since that time, the political aspect of their work has become less explicit, while identity has developed as a fo...

Premises Gallery at Johannesburg Civic Theatre: Uplift: The Mountain Premises - Sean Slemon 's Newest Work
‘Uplift: The Mountain Premises’ is a site-specific installation of carpet where layers of carpet trace the contours from the gallery footprint and gradually reduce in size to create a mountain. The installation is informed by the space of t...

Haus der Kunst: Piotr Nathan: He who Counts the Stars
Nathan attempts to give a place to the fleeting, transient and disparate without depriving these moments of their specific and complex qualities of experience. In the past few years, Piotr Nathan has appeared in numerous international theme exhib...

Vancouver Art Gallery: E.J. Hughes: Work from the Early 1930s to Present
Hughes remarkable career as an artist, which continues to this day, spans 70 years and encompasses his work as a gifted printmaker, successful muralist, outstanding Canadian war artist and prolific painter. His paintings depict land, sea and smal...

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