Art History News - April-May

*Frist Museum* *May 24–September 2, 2019 * The Frist Art Museum presents *Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection*—an exhibition that captures the vitality and expressiveness of twentieth-century Mexican art with iconic works by Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and their contemporaries, including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, María Izquierdo, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Organized by the Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), the e... more »

Royal Academy of Arts, London June 30–September 29, 2019The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkOctober 29, 2019–January 26, 2020 [image: Felix Vallotton] The Visit (La Visite), 1899. Gouache on cardboard. 55.5 x 87.0 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, 1909 © Kunsthaus Zürich. Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) created indelible imagery of *fin-de-siècle* Paris in painted portraits and interior narratives that pulse with psychological tension. Witness to the radical aesthetics that gripped Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Swiss-born and Paris-educated Vallotton is today recognized... more »

*Oklahoma City Museum of Art* * Nov. 2, 2019 and close April 26, 2020* John Marin (American, 1870 – 1953). Rough Sea, Cape Split, Maine , 1932. Oil on canvas. Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Museum purchase from the Beaux Arts Society Fund for Acquisitions, 1987.011. Photo: Josep h Mills Walt Kuhn (American, 1877 – 1949). Tiger Trainer , 1932. Oil on canvas. Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of the Okla homa Art Center, 1981.035. Photo: Joseph Mills Stephen Mopope (American, 1898 – 1974). Love - Call , 1931. Tempera on paper. Oklahoma Ci... more »

The Metropolitan Museum of Art October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020The Albertina Museum in Vienna February 12–May 10, 2020 [image: Renaissance of Etching] *Exhibition Dates:* October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, Galleries 691–693 The Charles Z. Offin Gallery, Karen B. Cohen Gallery, Harriette and Noel Levine Gallery The emergence of etching on paper in Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries—when the technique moved out of the workshops of armor decorators and into those of printmakers and painters—was a pivotal moment that complete... more »

*Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA June 8-Sept. 15, 2019;* * Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, Oct. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020; * *Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, March 7-May 31, 2020; * *Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, June 26-Aug. 23, 2020; * *June Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, Sept. 19, 2020-Jan. 3, 2021; * *Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, Sept. 3, 2021-Feb. 19, 2022;* *Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, March 19-June 12, 2022. * The dynamism and style of tu... more »

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art. *Whistler in Watercolor**May 18–Oct. 6* For renowned artist Whistler (1834–1903), watercolor was the medium through which he reinvented himself in the 1880s and painted his way into posterity. Now, four co-curators at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have brought together the worlds of art history, conservation and scientific research to give the public special insight into this part of Whistler’s life and rare access to the artworks in the exhibition “Whistler in Watercolor.” Because of his gr... more »

*Frist Art Museum * *June 21 through September 29, 2019* The Frist Art Museum presents *Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s*, an exhibition that explores the powerful and unsettling images created in response to the threat of war and fascist rule. Featuring works by Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Tanning, and others, the exhibition will be on display in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from June 21 through September 29, 2019. Through 78 objects, including paintings, drawings, film, and sculptures dr... more »

*Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts * *June 8–September 22, 2019 * *Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas * *October 27, 2019–January 26, 2020* Over the course of his long career, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) continually turned to the human figure for artistic inspiration. The body—particularly the nude—was the defining subject of Renoir’s artistic practice, from his early days as a student copying the old masters in the Louvre to the early twentieth century, when his revolutionary style of painting inspired the masters of modernism. In recognition of the ... more »

*Di Donna, 744 Madison Avenue, NYCApril 26 – June 28, 2019* Di Donna Galleries announces *Surrealism in Mexico*, an exhibition that explores the robust creative moment that emerged between 1940 and 1955 as an international community of artists fled World War II in Europe and settled in Mexico. There, many principles that had defined the Surrealist movement were broadened and transformed in response to a new topography, new cultures, and the experience of exile, toward the creation of radically innovative new styles. This vibrant art-historical episode was made possible through lib... more »

*Art Gallery of New South Wales* * On view** until 11 Aug 2019* 'The essential Duchamp' celebrates the legendary work of artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp *Bicycle wheel* 1964 (replica of 1913 original) Philadelphia Museum of Art; *Fountain* 1950 (replica of 1917 original) Philadelphia Museum of Art; *Hat rack* 1964 (replica of 1917 original) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; *Bottlerack* 1961 (replica of 1914 original) Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2018 More than a century after Marcel Duchamp’s (1887–1... more »

Peabody Essex Museum May 11 through December 1, 2019The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the debut exhibition of an outstanding collection of American painting, furniture, and decorative arts that was assembled by philanthropists, Carolyn and Peter Lynch, over the course of fifty years. *A Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection* takes visitors on the personal collecting journey of a couple that shared an extraordinary life together. Through travel, exploration, and intellectual curiosity, the Lynches amassed a broad-ranging collection th... more »

Freeman’s has again artfully curated another strong sale for June, consisting of nearly 160 lots and replete with many sought after artists. Many of the usual suspects will make an appearance in both the American Art and the Pennsylvania Impressionists categories, including William Glackens (1870-1938), Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Joseph Stella (1877-1946) and Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), as well as Fern Coppedge (1883-1951), Edward Redfield (1869-1965), Walter Schofield (1867-1944), and Mary Elizabeth Price (1877-1965). In addition, the sale will feature various, renowned artists... more »

Sotheby’s American Art auction in New York on 21 May 2019 is led by Edward Hopper’s Central Park scene, *Shakespeare at Dusk *(estimate $7/10 million), as well as significant examples by American icons such as Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mary Cassatt. Highlights from the auction are now on view in Sotheby’s newly expanded and re-imagined New York galleries, with the full exhibition of all works opening on the 17th. EDWARD HOPPER’S *SHAKESPEARE AT DUSK * Edward Hopper,* Shakespeare at Dusk*. Estimate: $7/10 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's. Following the ... more »

J.M.W. Turner, *Landscape with Walton Bridges*. Estimate: £4-6 million. Courtesy Sotheby's A rare, late work by Britain’s favourite artist, J.M.W. Turner, will be unveiled in Moscow ahead of its sale at Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale on 3 July. One of an important group of works painted by the artist in the last ten years of his life, Landscape with Walton Bridges, comes to the market for the first time in over 35 years with an estimate of £3-4 million. One of the preeminent figures that mark the pages of history – like da Vinci, Darwin, Picasso or Einstein – who changed t... more »

In New York, American art is the focus from Friday, May 17 to Saturday, May 18, 2019, with an arts industry conference at Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue. Tickets here. *View from Brooklyn*, 1927, by George Ault (1891-1948). The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation*© The Vilcek Foundation* *Initiatives in Arts and Culture's* (IAC) 24th Annual American Art Conference will explore the myth, mystique and artistry that cement a work's status as a "masterpiece" of American art. Key elements include taste of the times and its documentation, as well... more »

Christie’s has announced that *The Michael Scharf Family Collection *will lead the American Art sale on May 22. Considered one of the finest collections of American Modernism, this impressive group of twenty-eight paintings offers a strong representation from the Stieglitz Circle with works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove, as well as exceptional early explorations into abstraction by artists including Max Weber and Charles Green Shaw. Michael Scharf began his collection of American Modernism in 1972 when he purchased Arthur Dove’s *Parabola* and began to stu... more »

Apr 28, 2017–Jun 2, 2019 *WHERE WE ARE: SELECTIONS FROM THE WHITNEY’S COLLECTION, 1900-1960* *Where We Are*, a new exhibition of works from the Whitney’s collection made between 1900 and 1960, goes on view in the Museum’s seventh-floor Robert W. Wilson Galleries, beginning April 28. At a time when debate continues over what it means to be American, *Where We Are* proposes a framework of everyday relationships, institutions, and activities that form an individual's sense of self. *Where We Are *brings together some of the Whitney’s most iconic works by Louise Bourgeois, John S... more »

*Whitney Museum of American Art* Jun 28, 2019– This summer the Whitney debuts a complete re-installation of the Museum’s extraordinary holdings of early and mid-twentieth century American art. The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 traces major art historical movements and genres, presenting 120 works by more than seventy artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Elsie Driggs, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Archibald Motley, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Kay Sage, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition refle... more »

*Brandywine River Museum of Art * *June 22 – September 15, 2019 * *Portland Museum of Art in Maine * *October 4, 2019 – January 12, 2020* *Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio * *February 8, 2020 – May 3, 2020 * Th is summer the Brandywine River Museum of Art will present N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives , the first exhibition in almost 50 years to examine in depth the entirety of Wyeth’s multifaceted oeuvre . A formidable yet often overlooked fig ure in the history of American art , N. C. Wyeth was the foremost illustrator of his generation, and the patriarch of an extraordinary... more »

- April 14, 2019 – July 21, 2019 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin (1819–1900), an important art critic of the Victorian era, the National Gallery has brought together over 90 works, including paintings, watercolors, and drawings, by American artists who were influenced by Ruskin’s writing. Specifically, the exhibition will explore Ruskin’s significant impact on artists associated with a movement called “American Pre-Raphaelitism,” which peaked between 1857 and 1867 and included American artists su... more »

*Alte Pinakothek, Munich* *17 April to 21 July 2019* What a shock it must have been for Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst, and Dirck van Baburen, three young painters from Utrecht, when they encountered the breathtaking and unorthodox paintings of Caravaggio for the first time in Rome. Described as 'miraculous things' his works were marked by an innovative realism, striking drama, and mysterious lighting and were to influence the style of many artists from Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with the Centraal Museum in Utre... more »

*The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale* opens 20th Century Week at Christie’s New York. The highlights of the New York auction on 13 May, include standout out pieces by Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and other leading names of the 20th Century. The much anticipated sale presents works from the greatest moments of Impressionism to Modern art, with leading artists of the period. Pablo Picasso’s Baigneuses et crabe, 1938 (estimate: $1.2 – 1.8 million), [image: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Arbres dans le jardin de l’asile, October, 1889. Oil on canvas. 16 ... more »

*20 march - 21 july 2019* *Musée Maillol* In the spring of 2019, the Musée Maillol will exhibit masterpieces from the Emil Bührle Collection, one of the most prestigious private collections in the world. Exhibited for the first time in France, this ensemble, which was assembled between 1936 and 1956 in Zurich, provides a panorama of French art from the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The Musée Maillol will present the exceptional collection of the manufacturer Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956), who was born in Germany but settled in Switzerland in 1924 and... more »

*Van Gogh Museum, **Amsterdam, * * 21 June - 1 September, ** 2019 * *Sunflowers* (1889), one of Vincent van Gogh’s best-known paintings, will be the centrepiece of the summer exhibition *Van Gogh and the Sunflowers*. The presentation will highlight the flower’s significance to the painter and what he hoped to achieve with his *Sunflowers*. Van Gogh himself thought that this work was among the best things he had done. A great deal of study has been devoted to the masterpiece from the Van Gogh Museum’s collection in recent years. The exhibition will show what the latest technic... more »

*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston* *April 7 through August 4, 2019* [image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aristide Bruant in His Cabaret (detail), 1893. Poster, color lithograph printed in black, red, green, and gray, proof before letters. Otis Norcross Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.] Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,* Aristide Bruant in His Cabaret* (detail), 1893. Poster, color lithograph printed in black, red, green, and gray, proof before letters. Otis Norcross Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Paris was the center of nightlife and spectacle in the late 19th century, a moment immortaliz... more »

Questroyal Fine Art,903 Park Avenue (at 79th Street) Third Floor New York, NY 10075* October 2 – August 22, 2019* * The nineteenth volume in Questroyal’s coveted Important American Paintings series explores the ways in which art attracts collectors and investigates what motivates people to acquire this unique asset. Gallery owner Louis M. Salerno proclaims “Art is an enigma! Without any quantifiable utility, its impact is profound. Over my lifetime, as both a dealer and a collector, I have witnessed the joy and satisfaction that art brings to so many clients.”Featuring 37 color p... more »

Questroyal Fine Art,903 Park Avenue (at 79th Street) Third Floor New York, NY 10075*May 9 – May 24, 2019* The city of the world rests on more than 300 square miles of rock and is flanked by two rivers and the Atlantic Ocean. With an influence that spans the earth and an appeal that inspires people of every age and gender, paintings of this great city are among the most coveted of any subject matter in American art. This exhibition and salepresents paintings of the city in varying seasons and times, in an array of light and life, in frenzy and in solitude, any one of which may comp... more »

------------------------------ *Tampa Museum of Art* *April 11 through August 11, 2019* *Woman II*, 1961 Willem de Kooning (American, b. the Netherlands 1904–1997). Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 29 x 22 1/2 inches. The Haskell Collection. © 2018 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York *Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution, Selections from the Haskell Collection,* presents twenty-five works from the Haskell Collection indicative of Abstract Expressionism as a unifying direction in Post-World War II art. [image: Abstract Expressionism: A ... more »

*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), * *February 27 through June 16, 2019 * Throughout her entire career, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) avidly collected traditional Mexican folk art—*arte popular*—as a celebration of Mexican national culture. She drew inspiration from these objects, seizing on their political significance after the Mexican Revolution and incorporating their visual and material qualities into her now-iconic paintings. The first-ever Kahlo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), *Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular* (through June 16, 2019) focuses on the artist’s last... more »

When a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconic artist of the past, the result is storytelling magic at its best. Here are nine tales that bring to vivid life the early decades of the 20th century as witnessed by one of America's most well-known painters. Thomas Hart Benton sketched fiddlers and farm wives, preachers and soldiers, folks gathering in dance halls and tent meetings. Though his lithographs depict the past, the real-life people he portrayed face issues that are front and center today: corruption, women's rights, racial inequality. ... more »

Researchers at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence have proved what was suspected for a long time: that Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci was able to write, draw and paint with both hands. The study also uncovered a previously unknown landscape sketch on the back of the original work, titled *Landscape Drawing for Santa Maria Della Nave* and alternatively known as *Landscape 8P*. [image: An infrared view of the backside of Leonardo da Vinci's <em>Landscape Drawing for Santa Maria Della Nave</em>, also known as <em>Il Paesaggio</em> or <em>Landscape 8P</em> (1473) reveals another land... more »

EXHIBITION DATES *New York, May 1 – Aug 16 2019, Shepherd W&amp;K Galleries 58 East 79th Street New York, NYC 10075 USA www.shepherdgallery.com* *Dortmund, Sept 17 – Oct 26 2019, Galerie Utermann Silberstraße 22 44137 Dortmund www.galerieutermann.de* *Vienna, Nov 14 2019 – Jan 1 2020, Wienerroither &amp; Kohlbacher Strauchgasse 2 1010 Vienna www.w-k.art * [image: Lyonel Feininger, Rosa Wolke II] Lyonel Feininger, *Rosa Wolke II* (Shepherd W&amp;K Galleries, New York; Galerie Utermann, Dortmund; and W&amp;K - Wienerroither and Kohlbacher, Vienna) *1919-2019: 100 years ago the Bauhaus art school ... more »

David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street New York February 26—April 13, 2019 Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. It’s very hard to get freedom. You know all these things in life keep crawling over you all the time, so it’s very hard to feel free. —Alice Neel1 David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of paintings and significant works on paper by Alice Neel (1900–1984), on view at 537 West 20th Street in New York. Spanning six decades of the artist’s career, *Alice Neel: Freedom* is organized by Ginny Neel of The Estate of Alice Neel. The exhibitio... more »