JEWELS OF IMPRESSIONISM AND MODERN ART
Heather James Fine Art *Palm Desert, California* The featured exhibition at our Palm Desert gallery brings together outstanding treasures by impressionist pioneers and masters of representational modernism, highlighting the exceptional reach of artists now considered monumental figures in art history. This exhibition brings together outstanding treasures representing the dynamic ideas and theories that sprung forth from this time. Starting with the Impressionist pioneers Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, and Alfred Sisley, these artists turned towards technological and scientific... more »
Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity
*British Museum* *20 February – 9 August 2020 * Virtuosic and turbulent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778) was a visionary printmaker, architect, antiquarian and dealer. These varied aspects of his career were based on his practice of drawing, which has received comparatively little attention. The British Museum will mark the 300th anniversary of Piranesi’s birth through a new exhibition focusing on his work as a draughtsman. Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity will examine his draughtsmanship through the quality and impact of his pen and chalk studies, as well as examini... more »
True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870
*National Gallery of Art, Washington;February 2 – May 3, 2020Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris,June 13–September 13, 2020* *Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,October 6, 2020–January 31, 2021* Léon-François-Antoine Fleury, *The Tomb of Caecilia Metella*, c. 1830, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.16 An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, painting *en plein air* was a core practice for avant-garde artists in Europe. Intrepid artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John ... more »
FANTASTIC WOMEN. SURREAL WORLDS FROM MERET OPPENHEIM TO FRIDA KAHLO
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT,13 FEBRUARY 2020 – 24 MAY 2020 *Goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, nymphet, or wonderful dream creature—women were the central subject matter of Surrealist male fantasies*. It was often only in the role of companion or model that female artists could succeed in penetrating the circle surrounding André Breton, the founder of the group of Surrealists. *However, on closer examination it becomes evident that the participation of women artists in the movement was considerably larger than is generally known or reported*. The SCHIRN is now pres... more »
Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley
*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia **March 28 to June 21* Victoria Hutson Huntley (American, 1900 – 1971), “The Stairway,” 1931. Lithograph, 11 1/2 x 9 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Stephen Goldfarb. GMOA 2016.21. Victoria Hutson Huntley (American, 1900 – 1971), “Steel,” 1951. Lithograph, 10 7/8 x 15 5/8 inches. Private collection. (A well-known lithographer in the 1930s and 1940s, Victoria Hutson Huntley made works that were popular with museums and collectors. Her lithographs highlighted subjects including landscapes, human figures an... more »
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
JUNE 5–SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy OCTOBER 5, 2010–JANUARY 16, 2011 Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain SEPTEMBER 28–DECEMBER 12, 2011 National Art Center Tokyo, Japan FEBRUARY 2–MAY 6, 2012 Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee OCTOBER 6, 2012–JANUARY 6, 2013 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas FEBRUARY 2–APRIL 28, 2013 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida The first international exhibition organized by The Phillips Collection to feature an overview of the museum's renowned American collection, *To Se... more »
From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
*Vero Beach Museum of Art* *February 1-May 31, 2020* Homer To-the-Rescue. Hassam-Washington-Arch-Spring Arthur G. Dove, *Red Sun*, 1935, oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 28 in.; 51.435 x 71.12 cm. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Acquired 1935 Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) *Miss Amelia Van Buren*, c. 1891, Oil on canvas 45 x 32 inches, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1927 Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), *Ranchos Church, No. II, NM*, 1929, Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1930 Edward Hopper: *Sunday,* 1926, Phi... more »
Jean-François Millet Leads Prints & Drawings at Swann March 5
*Latin American works on paper from Matta, **Rivera, Tamayo & more* New York—*19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings* on *Thursday, March 5* at *Swann Galleries* is set to bring forth a remarkable set of works on paper from the Modern period including important examples from Gustave Baumann, Jean-François Millet, Diego Rivera and more. Works from the nineteenth century lead the sale with *Jean-François Millet*’s circa 1871–72 charcoal-on-canvas study for the artist’s oil painting *La Famille du Payson*, estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. James A. M. Whistler is available w... more »
Picasso and Paper
*Royal Academy of Arts, London * *25 January – 13 April 2020 * *The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio * *24 May – 23 August 2020 * Pablo Picasso, Women at Their Toilette, Paris, winter 1937–38. Collage of cut-out wallpapers with gouache on paper pasted on canvas, 299 x 448 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris. Pablo Picasso gift in lieu, 1979. MP176. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Adrien Didierjean © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019. The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting *Picasso and Pape*r, the most comprehensive exhibition devoted to Picasso’s imaginative and ... more »
By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque
*Norton Simon Museum * *October 4, 2019 - March 2, 2020 * The Norton Simon Museum presents *By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque*, an exhibition that surveys the rich range of artistic responses to life in the French capital during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time, later dubbed the *belle époque*, or “beautiful era,” Paris was at the forefront of urban development and cultural innovation. Its citizens witnessed the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the ascendancy of the Montmartre district as an epicenter for art and entertainment and the brightening ... more »
Pablo Picasso The War Years 1939 – 1945
February 15 – June 14, 2020 K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf *"I have not painted the war because I am not the kind of a painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings I have done." * Picasso, 1944 The exhibition "Pablo Picasso. The War Years 1939 – 1945" provides insight into the artist’s work during the Second World War. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, and documents from the years 1939 to 1945 tell of Picasso the man and the contradictions of everyday life during these times. Picasso fled ... more »
Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth
* Millennium Gallery, Sheffield* *Friday 14 February 2020 - Monday 25 May 2020* Sebastiano del Piombo, A reclining apostle, circa 1516. © The Devonshire Collections, Reproduced by kind permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees *The Devonshire collection of Old Master drawings is one of the finest private drawings collections in the world. Spanning 300 years, these unparalleled works represent some of the true masters of their craft, including Carpaccio, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and more.* Alessandro Bonvicino, called Moretto da Brescia, A woman’s head with ... more »
The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400–1750)
*Norton Simon Museum* *April 17, 2020 - August 31, 2020 * The Norton Simon Museum presents *The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400–1750)*, an exhibition that examines the ways in which the human form has provoked powerful responses, from the physiological to the mystical. In the early modern period—that is, the centuries following the Middle Ages—works of art were thought to have such power that they affected the viewer physically. From erotic paintings produced for wealthy patrons to venerated statues of the wounded Christ installed in local chapels, representations o... more »
Unseen Picasso
*Norton Simon Museum * *May 15, 2020 - October 19, 2020 * The Norton Simon Museum presents* Unseen Picasso*, a small exhibition featuring 16 exceptional prints made between the 1930s and 1960s that illustrate Pablo Picasso’s bold experiments, technically and stylistically, in the graphic arts. For most of his long career and life, Picasso (1881–1973) engaged in printmaking with a gusto and freedom of expression that is thrilling to experience. No print medium intimidated him, and his prodigious facility in intaglio (etching, drypoint and aquatint), lithography and linocut inspired... more »
‘The Poetry of Line. Masterpieces of Italian drawing
*From 31 January to 26 April 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich* presents ‘The Poetry of Line. Masterpieces of Italian drawing’, a selection from its small but prestigious collection of Italian drawings covering the period between Renaissance and Baroque, which have now been examined by students from the University of Zurich. The exhibition displays around thirty of the most important works from the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthaus Zürich. From the sight of the lines skilfully drawn on the paper it is but a short intellectual leap to the genesis of an artwork. RAPHAEL, CO... more »
*Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
*de Young museum**March 21 - July 26, 2020* *Nickolas Muray, "Frida with Olmeca Figurine, Coyoacán", 1939.* *"**The gringas really like me a lot and take notice of all the dresses and rebozos that I brought with me, their jaws drop at the sight of my jade necklaces and all the painters want me to pose for them.” — Frida Kahlo, letter to her parents while visiting San Francisco, 1930* In 1930, Frida Kahlo first visited the United States, traveling to San Francisco with her husband, Diego Rivera. Ninety years later she returns to the de Young museum in the exhibition, *Frida Kahlo: A... more »
Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings
*Princeton University Art Museum (March 7-June 14, 2020)Royal Academy of Arts, London (July 8-Oct. 8, 2020)* From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death in 1906, Paul Cézanne created some 27 canvases that take rocks as their principal subjects. Among the artist’s most extraordinary landscapes, his paintings of rock formations have never been the exclusive subject of an exhibition or publication. Featuring some 15 of the most important works – including scenes of the rocky terrain of the forest of Fontainebleau, the Mediterranean coastal village of L’Estaque and the area ar... more »
Andrew Wyeth Five Decades
January 16, 2020 - February 22, 202 *Forum Gallery, 475 Park Avenue at 57th Street, New York, NY 10022* From January 16 to February 22, 2020, Forum Gallery, New York, presents an exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), who set the standard for American figurative art in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Working in pencil, watercolor, egg tempera and his much-beloved personal medium of drybrush, Wyeth, throughout his life, was a resolute champion of the universal life force of each person he chose to paint, and of the unique, difficult, ever-changing rural American ... more »
Caravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome
*Rijksmuseum* *14 February to 7 June 2020* In the first decades of the 17th century a new generation of ambitious artists led by the brilliant painter Caravaggio and sculptor Bernini shook the eternal city of Rome from its slumber. They introduced a new language to art that dispensed with elegance and incited the emotions. This was Baroque, a spectacular artistic style charged with drama, dynamism and bravura, which sparked intimate collaborations between painting, sculpture and architecture. This was a revolution in Western art, one that started in Rome and resonated throug... more »
In the Picture - Van Gogh Self-portraits
*Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam* *21 February - 24 May 2020* People throughout the world recognize Vincent van Gogh - the man with the red beard and intense expression. Our image of the artist has been primarily shaped by his self-portraits. In the 19th century painters made self portraits to practice, experiment, or to set out their identity. They also made portraits of one other, often as a token of friendship. The spring exhibition *In the Picture* tells stories about identity and image, in 75 portraits. The self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh are the thread running through this exhi... more »
Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection
*Art Institute of Chicago,* *January 25 to May 10, 2020* *[image: Image result for Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection] * *Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left, 1749/50. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray.* Highlighting one of the most important gifts in the history of the Prints and Drawings department, *Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection* brings together more than 100 works from celebrated art dealer Richard Gray and art historian Mary L. Gray. Assembled over nearl... more »
MURALISM…. IDENTITY AND REVOLUTION
Throckmorton Fine Art has on view a special show of Mexican murals and photographs dating to the Mexican Revolution, from 1910-1920. MURALISM…. IDENTITY AND REVOLUTION will be on view at *Throckmorton Fine Art in New York through February 29, 2020.* In a revolt against dictator Porfirio Diaz, the demand for agrarian reform signaled a new age in Mexican society. As Civil War raged in Mexico from 1910-1920, the people of Mexico expressed their belief that the land should be in the hands of the laborers who worked the land. The Mexican people also cried out for universal public educati... more »
Arabesque
*Clark Art Institute* *December 14, 2019-March 22, 2020* The sinuous, curving ornamental motif known as arabesque has ancient sources and first appeared in Islamic cultures as a form of sacred writing. It figures in key movements in European art, from Renaissance grotesques to Rococo interiors, on through Art Nouveau and beyond. Bridging cultures and materials, arabesque did not settle into a single form or style but rather burst open the aesthetic possibilities available to artists, tracing a winding path from decorative border to overall principle of design. The nineteenth-century... more »