James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Pier: A Grey Note
oil on panel
1884
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Speed Art Museum: Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Steven Block
First introduced to lithography in 1878, Whistler’s interest in the medium never waned and he experimented with lithography intermittently until his death in 1903. Works included in this exhibition depict intimate scenes from daily life, delicate ...
Frick Collection: Whistler, Women, and Fashion
The exhibition is organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Curator at The Frick Collection, and Margaret F. MacDonald, a leading Whistler scholar and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the University of Glasgow; Aileen Ribe...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Whistler: Impressions of an American Abroad
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Phillips Collection: A Collector's Cabinet: Whistler's Lithographs and 20th Century American Prints from the Collection of Steven Block
The understated eloquence of Whistler's lithographs connects the personal exploration of Whistler with the
experimentation of early American modernists. Admired by artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Whistler's contribution
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Detroit Institute of Art: American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers
The 63 pieces in the show include 13 paintings by Whistler as well as works by other prominent American artists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Whistler’s paintings will be juxtapos...
Taft Museum: Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
This exhibition is sponsored by the Oliver Family Foundation.
While Whistler’s paintings were often subjected to harsh criticism, his
printed work garnered him a reputation as ...
Detroit Institute of Art: The Etching Revival in Europe: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century French and British Prints
Examples of their work and that of many artists on both sides of the English Channel such as Charles Meryon, Edouard Manet, Jean François Millet, and Frank Brangwyn are part of this exhibition of more than 120 prints from the DIA collection.
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Guild Hall Museum: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Celebrating the opening of the exhibition on Friday, June 16 will be a Gala Preview and Cocktail Party, 6 p.m., $275. Also on
Saturday, June 17 there will be an Opening Reception between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m.
$5 donation (members Free)
A Gallery T...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Frame in America: 1860-1960
A unique aspect of The Frame in America is that all ninety-eight frames included in the exhibition are displayed without pictures in order to assist visitors in focusing on each frame’s individual characteristics. Many of the frames are also neste...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks
This exhibition is one of an occasional series where contemporary artists explore the resources of the Henry Art Gallery collections. At the same time it complements the artist's mid-career survey at the Tacoma Art Museum, Between Clouds of Memor...
Muskegon Museum of Art: Second Nature: Drawings by Karen Klein
She does start with a careful and close study of nature, but transforms what she observes. Referring to the great artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Klein notes that as an artist she must arrange and harmonize into a glorious unity what she pick...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Masters of American Drawings and Watercolors, Foundations of the Collection, 1904–1922
John W. Beatty, who served as Carnegie Museum of Art’s first director from 1896 to 1922, was the driving force behind the acquisition of nearly 200 drawings and watercolors by an array of prominent American artists of the period. With the end of B...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Boston, Edmund Tarbell,
Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of
Impressionism related to the culture of that city. Artists such as Daniel Garber and
Maurice Prendergast carried Impress...
Detroit Institute of Art: Beyond Big: Oversized Prints, Drawings and Photographs
In the last half of the 20th century, advances in technology have permitted artists to create prints and photographs of unprecedented scale. With equipment and paper now being produced in sizes that rival dimensions that only paintings and some dr...
National Gallery: Americans in Paris
Highlights include Whistler's 'White Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropol...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: John Twachtman: An American Impressionist
Organized chronologically and thematically by the High Museum
of Art, the exhibition will be divided into four sections: the early
Venice and New Yo...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his
masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in
context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Smog: Works Inspired by London's Great Smog
For a whole week in 1952, beginning on 4 December, London suffered its worst ever smog when levels of sulphur and particulates reached lethal concentrations, killing an estimated 12,000 people. Half a Century later, the event remains a reference p...
University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: Opulence and Devotion : Brazilian Baroque Art
On display will be a rich array of painted and gilded
sculpture, silverwork and small altarpieces -- chosen from
both private and public collections. There are charming,
intimate, private altarpieces and oratórios -- car...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been
acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first
time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues
...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
San Diego Museum of Art: Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
Organized by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and guest curated by Nicholas Kilmer, Frieseke’s grandson, this traveling retrospective is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Frieseke’s work ever assembled, consisting of ...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Carlyle: A Hero of His Time
Born in Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason, Carlyle was educated at Edinburgh University and became one of the most prolific and influential writers of the nineteenth century. A man of passionate convictions, he was regarded by his contemporari...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Georgeanne Deen: 1992-2002
The result is a peep show
into a fierce and fragile comedy of the human psyche that many of us
would be loathe to lay open. Past series from which she will be showing
key works are The Mother Load, The Vogue Book of the Dead, Un Fuc Me
(and l...
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...
Tate Britain: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Exposed will be the first exhibition to survey the full range of the Victorian nude, both male and female. It will concentrate on the nude in painting, drawing and sculpture, but will also explore artistic representations of the naked body in othe...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Last Week! Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the
Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the
Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints
and sculpture from the Galle...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the
Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the
Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints
and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the
Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the
Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints
and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Telfair Museum of Art: Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
Accompanying the exhibition will be a handsome 220-page
full-color hardback catalogue published by the Telfair and
distributed jointly with Princeton University Press. In addition, a
30-minute documentary ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Treasure Hunt: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper
According to Carnegie Museum of Art's Associate Curator of Fine Arts Linda
Batis, Treasure Hunt not only showcases important acquisitions, but also
reveals the extent of the museum's collection of works on paper. We
collect to overcome weaknes...
Van Gogh Museum: 800 prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and their contemporaries
The Vincent van Gogh Foundation already owns a small collection of prints assembled by Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, which is on loan to the Museum. The addition of this extensive collection adds depth and direction to the print collectio...
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
...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view.
Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard
Daguerreotypy, invented in 1839 by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was a method of capturing an image projected by a camera obscura onto silver-coated copper plates. In this process, the plates were sensitized with iodine vapor, expose...
Van Gogh Museum: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
Although the artists were familiar with and reacted to European art, they simultaneously developed their own individual style. To shed light on the various artistic currents the exhibition is organized around themes such as American Icons, Impress...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits
Included are works by such influential artists as Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, James McNeill Whistler, Auguste Rodin, Oskar Kokoschka, and Ansel Adams. Their observations create a lively narrative across fo...
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