Art History News December - January

*Palmer Museum of Art* *January 21st - June 7th 2020* [image: John William Hill, Under the Falls, Niagara, c. 1870] John William Hill, *Under the Falls, Niagara*, c. 1870, watercolor on paper, 29 x 21½ inches. John Driscoll American Drawings Collection. [image: John William Hill, Under the Falls, Niagara, c. 1870] John William Hill, *Under the Falls, Niagara*, c. 1870, watercolor on paper, 29 x 21½ inches. John Driscoll American Drawings Collection. The gift of 140 works on paper from Penn State alumnus Dr. John P. Driscoll in 2018 dramatically reshaped the Palmer Museum of Art’... more »

*Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) * *February 15–July 26, 2020* The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) presents an exhibition of prints and drawings from artists such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Rembrandt in “From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700” on view Saturday, February 15–July 26, 2020. This exhibition is in conjunction with “Bruegel’s *The Wedding Dance* Revealed.” The exhibition features more than 100 prints and drawings from the DIA’s permanent collection. From elaborate engravings by Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) to the use of... more »

*The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)* invites visitors to experience an exhibition that explores how science and technology is used to learn about art, focused on one of the DIA’s most iconic European paintings. “Bruegel’s *The Wedding Dance* Revealed” will be open from *December 14, 2019–August 30, 2020*. The year 2019 marks the 450th anniversary of artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, and to commemorate it, the DIA’s Conservation department and the European Art department collaborated to trace the life of the painting from its creation in 1566 to the present, including the sto... more »

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*Chrysler Museum of Art * *February 28–May 17, 2020* Edvard Munch (Norwegian , 1863 – 1944) Crowds in a Square , 1920. Color woodcut. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Epstein Family Collection , 2013.Edvard Munch (Norwegian , 1863 – 1944) Omega and the Flower from Alpha and Omega , 1908 – 0 9. Lithograph in black. National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Epstein Family Collection , 2002 The *Chrysler Museum of Art* will present its first-ever exhibition of Edvard Munch’s iconic works in *Edvard Munch and the Cycle of Life: Prints from the National Gallery of Art*. On ... more »

*Fondation Beyeler in Basel * *26 January to 17 May 2020 * EDWARD HOPPER, CAPE ANN GRANITE, 1928. Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 102.3 cm. Private Collection. © Heirs of Josephine Hopper / 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. In Europe, he is known mainly for his oil paintings of urban life scenes dating from the 1920s to 1960s, some of which have become highly popular images. Less attention has so far been paid to his landscapes. Surprisingly, no exhibition to date has dealt comprehensively with ... more »

This January’s Evening Sale of Master Paintings will present an exciting array of European works spanning the 14th through 19th centuries. The sale is led by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s eight-foot tall depiction of the *Madonna of the Rosary with Angels*, the last major altarpiece by this Venetian master remaining in private hands. Other highlights include a newly rediscovered masterwork by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, his earliest known version of *The Virgin and Christ Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist* dating to *circa* 1612, an early Madonna and Child by the Master of... more »

*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza * *18 February to 24 May 2020 * Rembrandt is undoubtedly the most important of the 17th-century Dutch painters. While most artists of that period specialised in a particular genre he was renowned in numerous fields and not just as a painter but also as a draughtsman and engraver. Portraiture was one of those fields but despite the fact that he achieved the highest level in this genre, as he did in all the others, no exhibition has previously been exclusively devoted to this aspect of Rembrandt’s activities. [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org... more »

Peabody Essex MuseumJanuary 18–April 26, 2020The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJune 2–September 7, 2020This January, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), debuts *Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle* the first museum exhibition to feature the celebrated series of paintings, *Struggle: From the History of the American People* (1954–56), by Jacob Lawrence. Painted during the civil rights era by one of the best-known black American artists of the 20th century, the series of 30 intimate panels depicts pivotal moments in early American history with an emphasis on the contributions that black peo... more »

Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will be followed by The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, together launching '20th Century at Christie's' on 5 February 2020. Tamara de Lempicka's Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000) and Alberto Giacometti's Trois hommes qui marchent (Grand plateau) (1948, estimate: £8,000,000-12,0000,000) will both lead the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale. Further highlights include George Grosz's politically charged Gefährliche Straße (1918, estimate: £4,500,000-6,500,000), which has remained in a pri... more »

*January 24–February 2, 2020 * Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), Camilo Astalli, known as Cardinal Pamphili, Rome, Italy, 1650-1651, oil on canvas, H 61 x W 48 cm., Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York. The Winter Show's 2020 loan exhibition will feature masterworks from the renowned collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, spanning 4,000 years of Hispanic history, art, and culture. On view January 24–February 2, 2020, the exhibition is co-curated by esteemed art historian and curator Philippe de Montebello, Chairman of the Board of the Hispanic Society Museum &... more »

Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 4 February will include three works recently restituted to the heirs of Gaston Lévy, one of the most notable patrons and art collectors living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. A highly successful businessman and property developer, Lévy and his family lived in a magnificent apartment on the Avenue de Friedland, which he filled with books, paintings and works of art, many of which he bought from the great dealers of his day, including BernheimJeune, Paul Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard. Lévy’s art collection was dispersed under ... more »

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM OCT 17 2019 – JAN 26 2020 *Kimbell Art Museum * *March 1, 2020 – June 14, 2020* The Seattle Art Museum presents *Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum* (October 17, 2019–January 26, 2020), featuring 40 Renaissance and Baroque works of art (39 paintings and one sculpture) drawn from the collection of one of the largest museums in Italy. Traveling from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see works by significant Italian, French, and Spanish artists who worked in Italy including A... more »

[image: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Christ Among the Doctors] Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Christ Among the DoctorsLot: 1Estimate: $800 - $1,200 Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Christ Among the Doctors, from The Life of the Virgin, 1511, later impression without text verso (Hollstein, 203c/c; Meder, 203f/g). Monogrammed within the More ... [image: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828) Caridad de una Muger] Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828) Caridad de una MugerLot: 2Estimate: $200 - $250 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spani... more »

*Saint Louis Art Museum * *Feb. 16 - May 17, 2020* Jean-François Millet, French, 1814–1875; “The Angelus”, 1857-1859; oil on canvas; 21 7/8 x 26 inches; Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France 2020.28; Photo: Patrice Schmidt, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NYVincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853–1890; “Evening: The Watch (after Millet)”, 1889; oil on canvas; 29 5/16 × 36 13/16 inches; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) 2020.34 *‘Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí’ creates an alternative narrative for the history of modern art.* Jean-François Millet, French, 1814–1875... more »

Winslow Homer, Undertow, 1886. Oil on canvas; 29-13/16 × 47-5/8 in. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1924, 1955.4. Image courtesy clarkart.edu *Natural Forces: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington*, featuring 60 artworks, will reveal connections between artistic themes and techniques used by the two acclaimed American artists. The exhibition opens at the *Denver Art Museum on March 15, 2020, and runs through June 7, 2020*. Born a generation apart, both artists succeeded in capturing the quintessential A... more »

*Dallas Museum of Art* *November 8, 2020, through February 14, 2021* *Baltimore Museum of Art * *March 21 through July 11, 2021 * The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) have announced the co-organization of the first U.S. exhibition in over 35 years dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Gris. *Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris* highlights the artist’s pioneering and revolutionary contributions to the Cubist movement by focusing on his fascination with subjects drawn from everyday life. Through more than 40 paintings and collages that span al... more »

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart11.10.2019 - 2.2.2020Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was celebrated by his contemporaries as “the best painter of Venice”. Born in Venice, he became one of the most important artists of the eighteenth century – as sought-after in Italy as he was in Würzburg or Madrid. To mark the 250th anniversary of his death, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart put together a major exhibition which showcases the museum’s first-rate holdings of the artist in the wider context of outstanding works drawn from public and private collections in Europe and overseas. Giovanni Battis... more »

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart11.10.2019 - 2.2.2020 [image: Graphik von Dizian]Gaspare Diziani, Fête galante (Gesellschaft im Freien), um 1740/50 (Detail), Feder in Braun, braun laviert über schwarzer Kreide, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung *Venice specialties on paper* Venice holds a prominent position on the map of Italy's artistic landscapes. Brought about by the omnipresent reflecting water surfaces, the unusual light in the »Floating City« inspired not only Venetian painters but also and above all draughtsmen. The stroke of ink, often executed with a pen, takes a leadin... more »

*Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC* *February 21–May 4, 2020 * John James Audubon’s lifelong obsession to record the natural world, which he found in his adopted homeland of the United States, resulted in two inspired projects - *Birds of America* (1827—1838) and *The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America* (1843—1848). These compendiums wedded art and science, and presented two of the great artistic accomplishments of the first half of the nineteenth century. John James Audubon, Common American Skunk , from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America , 1845 - 1848, handcolore... more »

*15.11.2019 - 20.04.2020 * With the exhibition *German Expressionism. The Braglia and Johenning Collections*, the Leopold Museum is presenting a comprehensive selection of Expressionist works from two important European art collections. “Around 100 exhibits from the Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia, Lugano, and the Foundation of Renate and Friedrich Johenning from North Rhine-Westphalia make for an impressive pas de deux of the two collections,” summarizes the Leopold Museum’s Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger. The selection is supplemented by works from the Nolde Foundation Seebüll... more »

* Centre Pompidou* * 11 september 2019 - 20 january 2020 * After the exhibitions showcasing Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, André Derain and Henri Matisse, the Centre Pompidou continues its re-examination of key 20th century works by devoting a major exhibition to Francis Bacon. The last major French exhibition of this artist’s work was held in 1996 at the Centre Pompidou. More than twenty years later, Bacon : Books and Painting presents paintings dating from 1971, the year of the retrospective event at the national galleries of the Grand Palais, to his final works in 1992. Didier... more »

*Swann Galleries* will open the new decade in style, with a sale of *African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company* on *Thursday, January 30*. The collection—which hung in the publishing house’s historic offices on 820 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago—will feature paintings, sculpture and works on paper from diverse periods over the last century, with 75 artists represented. Hung together in a single exhibition for the first time, the Johnson Publishing Company’s art collection makes a powerful statement, demonstrating the company’s longstanding recognition and support of vi... more »

*December 21 , 2019 –July 11 , 20 20 | Saturdays, 1 –4 pm Location: Charles White Elementary School | 2401 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, C A 90057 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA )* Rufino Tamayo, Man with Tall Hat (Hombre con sombrero alto), c. 1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, Art © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) was a leading Mexi... more »

*Musée des Beaux-Arts, Agen, * *8 November 2019 — 10 February 2020* Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, *Woman with a Fa*n, detail, ca. 1805–10 (Paris: Musée du Louvre) Curated by Adrien Enfedaque, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, and Bruno Mottin The City of Agen and its Fine Arts Museum, located between Bordeaux and Toulouse in the southwest of France, will present, over the winter of 2019–2020, an outstanding exhibition with a fresh and unexpected view on Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) and his work. Through a selection of works in several media (paintings, drawings, engravings), ... more »

*Old Master & British Drawings* offers a wide variety of works on paper covering over five hundred years of design and European creativity from around 1480 to the mid-19th Century. Featured collections include properties from Jean Bonna, Terry Allen Kramer, James and Marilynn Alsdorf, Luisa Vertova Nicolson, Brooke Astor, Michael Hall and Eric Stanley. Amongst the highlights from the Italian section are masterpieces of the High Renaissance by Perugino, Luca Signorelli, Parmigianino, and exceptional Baroque drawings by Annibale Carracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Elisabetta Sirani. T... more »

*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia * *December 21, 2019 - March 8, 2020* *[image: https://georgiamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Allegrini-D-I-111-scaled.jpg] * When we think of Renaissance art, we usually think of paintings, but from the 16th century on Italian artists focused on drawing just as much if not more so. Giorgio Vasari, an influential Italian painter, architect and historian, regarded disegno (which means “drawing” or “design”) as the foundation of visual art. Disegno was considered the basis of an artist’s training and an essential tool for cap... more »

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra13 Dec 2019 – 13 Apr 2020 *Matisse & Picasso* is the story of the artistic relationship between two of Europe’s greatest twentieth-century artists. Featuring more than 60 paintings and sculptures, as well as drawings, prints and costumes, this is a story of friendship – and rivalry. The exhibition traces the turbulent relationship of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso from its early days during the belle epoque heyday of Paris, through their decades of jockeying for artistic ascendency. This enduring symbiosis continued after Matisse’s death i... more »

*National Gallery, London * *22 February – 31 May 2020* The first exhibition exclusively devoted to Dutch artist Nicolaes Maes will open at the National Gallery next February. [image: Nicolaes Maes, 'The Old Lacemaker', about 1655 The Mauritshuis,] Nicolaes Maes, 'The Old Lacemaker', about 1655 The Mauritshuis, The Hague; Purchased with the support of the Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation, the VSB Foundation The Hague and the Rembrandt Association, 1994 (1101) © Mauritshuis, The Hague With loans from museums and private collections worldwide, 'Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of th... more »

*GETTY CENTER* *Daily, through February 16, 2020* *Early medieval legends reported that one of the three kings who paid homage to the newborn Christ Child in Bethlehem was from Africa. But it would be nearly one thousand years before artists began representing Balthazar, the youngest of the magi, as a Black African. This exhibition explores the juxtaposition of a seemingly positive image with the painful histories of Afro-European contact, particularly the brutal enslavement of African peoples.* Georges Trubert. French, active Provence, France 1469 – 1508. *The Adoration of the Ma... more »

*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston* * March 1–May 25, 2020* Unparalleled outside of Spain, the collections of the New York–based Hispanic Society Museum & Library focus on the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines up to the early 20th century. The traveling exhibition *Glory of Spain* showcases some 200 objects spanning more than 4,000 years of Hispanic art and culture, featuring artifacts from Roman Spain and decorative arts and manuscripts of Islamic Spain. Also on view are paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from medieval, “Go... more »

*Toledo Museum of Art* * Jan. 18 to April 12, 2020* *Cincinnati Art Museum* *May 15 to Aug. 9, 2020 * The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) and the Cincinnati Art Museum are collaborating on an intimate exhibition that highlights a group of richly evocative French still lifes from a single decade, the 1860s. * ONE EACH: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends* will appear in TMA’s Gallery 18 from Jan. 18 to April 12, 2020, and subsequently travel to Cincinnati, where it will be on display from May 15 to Aug. 9, 2020. The exhibition is curated by TMA’s Lawr... more »

*Frist Art Museum* *February 20 through May 31, 2020* *[image: Image result for J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). Small Boats beside a Man-o’-War, 1796–97. Gouache and watercolor on paper, 13 7/8 x 24 1/4 in. Tate: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856. Photo © Tate, 2019] * J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). Small Boats beside a Man-o’-War, 1796–97. Gouache and watercolor on paper, 13 7/8 x 24 1/4 in. Tate: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856. Photo © Tate, 2019 The Frist Art Museum presents *J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime*, an exhibition of extrao... more »

*The Appleton Museum of Art * *Now until January 5th, 2020* *Cedar Rapids Museum of Art * *February 1 - April 26, 2020* This extraordinary exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the nineteenth century, and the complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s, and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed. More than seventy-five paintings and works on paper help tell the story of the new style of painting which developed at the end of the nineteenth cen... more »

*The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao * * October 25 , 2019 – February 16 , 2020 * Masterpieces of the* Kunsthalle Bremen: From Delacroix to Beckmann*, is an extraordinary selection from the holdings of the Kunsthalle Bremen which reveals the close ties between German art and Fre nch art in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the lively dialogue be tween two parallel artistic streams which changed the way modern art was viewed, the exhibition also reflects the unique history and artistic discourse of this museum in a survey that starts with Romanticis m and then dips into Impre... more »

*at Dulwich Picture Gallery* - - - An enduring storyteller; a master of light – Rembrandt is one of the greatest painters who ever lived. This landmark exhibition celebrates 350 years since his death with 35 of his iconic paintings, etchings and drawings, including major international loans. Arranged thematically,* Rembrandt’s Light* will take you on a journey from high drama and theatricality, to the contemplative and spiritual, showcasing his use of light. The exhibition focusses on the period from 1639–1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the h... more »

*National Gallery, London * *13 February – 16 May 2021* A major exhibition devoted to German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer will open at the National Gallery in February 2021. The first significant UK exhibition of the artist’s works in such a wide range of media for nearly twenty years will show Dürer’s career as a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. It will also be the first to focus on the artist through his travels, bringing the visitor closer to the man himself and the people and places he visited, through over 100 paintings, drawings prints and documents loaned from muse... more »

*Museum Prinsenhof Delft * 11 October 2019 to 16 February 2020The first retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the famous 17th-century painter Pieter de Hooch will be presented at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft from 11 October 2019 to 16 February 2020. The exhibition, *Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the shadow of Vermeer* is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in his own country. After Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch is widely considered to be the most celebrated Delft master of the 17th century. The paintings De Hooch produced in Delft (ca. 1652-1660) will be at the heart of... more »

*Getty Research Institute * *December 3, 2019 through March 29, 2020* A related exhibition: *Käthe Kollwitz and the Art of Resistance* *The Art Institute of Chicago * *May 30 to September 13, 2020* Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945), Charge, between 1902 and 1903, sheet 5 of Peasants’ War. Etching, drypoint, aquatint, lift ground, and soft ground with the imprint of two fabrics and Ziegler’s transfer paper, printed in black ink on copperplate paper, and reworked with white pigment and black wash, state III of XIII. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2016.PR.34) Partial Gift of D... more »

*National Gallery of Canada* *November 29, 2019, to March 29, 2020* - *A thematic exhibition presenting some of the most iconic images of the Renaissance and Baroque, including a major work recently acquired by the Gallery* - *Nearly 70 works produced 300 to 500 years ago by 45 German, Flemish, French, Dutch and Italian artists * - *Special programming complements the exhibition, including activities where visitors can “tame the monsters” * Monsters and supernatural creatures –, sometimes horrifying, always fascinating – created between 300 and 500 years ago ... more »