*The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York* *February 17–May 15, 2022* Regarded in his time as the most important painter in France, Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) produced major canvases that shaped the public’s perceptions of historical events in the years before, during, and after the French Revolution. Drawings were the primary vehicle by which he devised and refined his groundbreaking compositions. Opening February 17, 2022, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman is the first exhibition devoted to works on paper by this celebrated and influe... read more
Works by two of the most internationally acclaimed artists were unveiled at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this past week, ahead of Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on 2 March. A stunning example of Claude Monet’s Nymphéas series, this depiction of the waterlilies at Giverny was painted between 1914 and 1917. The culmination of the artist’ progression towards true abstraction, this ground-breaking series is widely considered his greatest achievement, and this expressive, later work perfectly encapsulates the artist’s vision on a grand scale. Having last been at... read more
*Toledo Museum of Art * *April 23-July 17, 2022* This spring and summer the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) offers a spectacular exhibition of more than 100 objects drawn from one of the most significant private collections of Persian art. *Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands *opens April 23 and showcases the artistic inventiveness of Persian culture across different media, featuring a broad array of textiles, ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, paintings, jewelry and manuscripts from the Hossein Afshar Collection. Historically Persian lands – a wide swath of territ... read more
Santa Barbara Museum of Art *Feb. 27 through May 22, 2022* "Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources" is on view at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February 27 – May 22, 2022. Vincent van Gogh, Les Vessenots in Auvers, 1890. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, inv. no. 559, 1978.41. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid. Santa Barbara, a seaside city known for its café culture, sweeping views and vibrant arts scene, is set to draw visitors this spring for a full van Gogh experience. Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) and in partn... read more
On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America
*Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass* *March 12, 2022 -* Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock, b. 1977), Boots, 2013–14. Glass beads on boots designed by Christian Louboutin. 19 1/2 x 9 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (49.53 x 23.114 x 8.89 cm). Museum commission with support from Katrina Carye, John Curuby, Karen Keane and Dan Elias, Cynthia Gardner, Merry Glosband, and Steve and Ellen Hoffman. 2014.44.1AB. Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Walter Silver. This winter, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., opens a new gallery that, for the first time, combines its Native... read more
*René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières* Painted for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, who appears in many of Magritte’s greatest works, the enigmatic 1961 work has remained in her family ever since. To be offered in March 2022 with an estimate in excess of $60 million. Courtesy Sotheby's. - One of the most desirable works of modern art in private hands, and among the definitive images of Surrealist art, René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières captures the visual paradox that lies at the heart of the artist’s originality. The instantly recognisable work was created in 1961 for Baroness Anne... read more
- Lucian Freud *Girl with Closed Eyes* (1986-87, estimate on request), which is among the most exquisite of Lucian Freud’s triumphant 1980s portraits. *Girl with Closed Eyes* will be a focal point of Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, a key auction within the 20/21 Shanghai to London sales series, which will take place on 1 March 2022. The painting is being offered at auction for the first time, having remained in the same private collection for around 35 years. Reclined on a bed in the artist’s Holland Park studio, t... read more
National Gallery London Unveils Newly-Restored Acquisition 'The Red Boy' While 'The Blue Boy' Visits
Thomas Gainsborough, 'The Blue Boy', 1770. Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California (21.1) © Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California At the National Gallery, *The Blue Boy* is displayed in Room 46 among a small selection of related masterworks that connect to Gainsborough’s oeuvre and influences, particularly van Dyck’s paintings. (Learn more in the curator's video Why is Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy' so famous?) Offering a rare chance to see both of these British master portraits under one roof, while *The Blue Boy* is on loan, The National Gallery in... read more
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By Allen Hirsch 1) Philadelphia Museum of Art 2) Gemaldegalerie Berlin One of the great mysteries of the Dutch Golden Age is the relationship between Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and Pieter de Hooch (1629-after 1686); They elevated Dutch genre painting to one of the most beloved expressions of the Golden Age and of the history of art. They are the Van Gogh/Gauguin, the Michelangelo/Leonardo dynamic duo of Delft. There is not a single written document that shows an interaction between them other than t... read more
*Tate Modern, London, February 4 – May 31, 2021National Gallery of Art, Washington, July 3 – October 3, 2021Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 7, 2021 – February 6, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 6 – May 30, 2022* (detail) Philip Guston, Painting, Smoking, Eating, 1973, oil on canvas, overall: 196.85 x 262.89 cm (77 1/2 x 103 1/2 in.) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam © The Estate of Philip Guston *Philip Guston: Now *is a touring exhibition that caused controversy when the dates were initally rescheduled to four years out. One of America’s greatest modern painters... read more
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston* *March 27 to July 10, 2022* Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) by Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851) 1840. Oil on canvas, 90.8 x 122.6 cm (35 3/4 x 48 1/4 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings focus to a pair of differing game-changer artists, J. M. W. Turner and Philip Guston, who responded to their own tumultuous times with innovative artistic visions. One of Britain’s greatest artists, J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and worked at the pe... read more
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Annely Juda and L.A. Louver have announced *Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting*, a major touring retrospective of paintings by seminal British artist *Leon Kossoff* (1926 – 2019) that will open in London in September 2021 and travel to New York and Los Angeles in January 2022. Comprising 58 works, this touring show will be the first posthumous and largest exhibition of Kossoff’s paintings in a commercial setting to date, and coincides with the publication of *Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings* by Modern Art Press. The exhibition is curated ... read more
* J. Paul Getty Museum* *February 15–May 8, 2022* Hymenaeus Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus, 1634–38, Nicolas Poussin. Oil on canvas, 65 9/16 × 146 7/8 in. Collection Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Purchase, 1958 MASP.00046. MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Purchase, 1958. Photo: Alexandre LeãoRoman sculptor, 'Relief with Five Dancers before a Portico ('The Borghese Dancers')', second century CE. Musée du Louvre, Paris, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities (MA 1612). Photo © RMN-Grand Palais Nicolas Poussin,... read more
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Self-Portrait, Sept. 1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. *Van Gogh. Self- Portraits* opens *February 3 – May 8, 2022, at The Courtauld Gallery in London.* This unprecedented exhibition takes as its springboard Van Gogh’s iconic *Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear,* one of the most celebrated works in The Courtauld collection, and will bring together around half of the self-portraits Van Gogh created during his career. An outstanding selection of more than 15 works will be brought together to trace the evolution of Van Gogh’s self-representat... read more
*Denver Art Museum * *opening Feb. 6, 2022* *Albuquerque Museum* *June 11, 2022 through Sept. 4, 2022* *San Antonio Museum of Art * *Oct. 14, 2022, through Jan. 8, 2023* The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is planning *Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche*, an exhibition opening Feb. 6, 2022, that examines the historical and cultural legacy of La Malinche. Both reviled as a traitor and hailed as the mother of Mexico, Malinche is an enigmatic figure whose legacy has been the subject of controversy, legend and adulation from the 16th century through the present day. Alfre... read more
* Frist Art Museum * *November 5, 2021 through January 30, 2022* Master of Saint James at the Battle of Clavijo (active ca. 1315–30). Saint Catherine of Alexandria Freed from the Wheel, from Stories of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, ca. 1330. Tempera, gold, and mosaic gold on panel, 25 x 32 1/4 in. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, GL.60.17.14 Seneca Master (active early 14th century). Cutting: The Sixth Day of Creation, early 14th century. Tempera and gold on parchment, 2 3/4 in. diameter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, The Jeanne ... read more
* Royal Academy of Arts* *29 January – 17 April 2022 * The Royal Academy of Arts presents Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through the lens of his fascination with animals, and how this impacted upon his treatment of his ultimate subject: the human figure. Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is recognised as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Since his death, the world has changed in ways that make his unnerving work ever more prescient. This important exhibition includes 46 remarkable paintings spann... read more
*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia* *January 28 to April 24, 2022* Pontormo, del Sarto, Foschi. One of these names is much less of a household name when it comes to 16th-century Italian art, but the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia aims to change that this January. “Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence,”organized by Nelda Damiano, the museum’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, is the first exhibition dedicated to Pier Francesco Foschi (1502 – 1567), a highly prolific and fashionable Florentine painter ... read more
*Lower Belvedere * *28 January to 29 May 2022 * Salvador Dalí, Untitled. Woman Sleeping in a Landscape, 1931 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Bildrecht, Vienna 2022 Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud. The artist's Surrealist imagery reflects an intensive engagement with psychoanalysis. But did they actually know one another? The story is as complex as its protagonists: Dalí discovered Freud's writings in the 1920s and was spellbound, even obsessed! Under their sway, he developed a pictorial language that is still unique today. Fr... read more
*Holburne Museum* *28 January to 8 May 2022 * In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Holburne Museum will present a major new exhibition featuring 25 famous Tudor portraits Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist, circa 1575 © National Portrait Gallery, London. This focused exhibition, developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and National Museums Liverpool, includes some of the most iconic images in British painting, including the ‘Darnley’ and ‘Armada’ portr... read more
Krannert Art Museum Albrecht Dürer, Christ Carrying the Cross (detail), 1512. Engraving on paper. Museum Purchase through The Champion & Partners Acquisition Prize in Honour of Richard Hamilton 2017-28-1 ( A Krannert Art Museumexhibition of prints depicting sacred and supernatural imagery will showcase Early Modern treasures from across campus, including the growing collection of historical European prints in KAM’s collection. “Sacred/Supernatural: Religion, Myth, and Magic in European Prints, 1450-1900” is on view *Jan. 27-May 15.* The 44 prints in the exhibition portray Christian ... read more
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Pegasus Departing, by 1901. Oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.Jackson Pollock, T.P.’s Boat in Menemsha Pond, ca. 1934. Oil on tin, 4 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches. The New Britain Museum of Art. © 2021 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York An over view on YouTube Ryder was a prophetic visionary, seeing and representing the world in a way that diverged from everyone else. To many, he is considered the father of American modernism, and perhaps, the most in... read more
Princeton University PressAuthor : Dieter Buchhart *An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art* Keith Haring (1958–1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and complex sociopolitical commentary. Each artist invented a distinct visual language, employing signs, symbols, and words to convey strong messages in unconventional ways, and each left an indelible legacy that remains a force in contemporary visual and popular culture. Offering fasc... read more
Helen Frankenthaler, Madame Butterfly (detail) 2000 and Tales of Genji III (detail), 1998 © 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / DACS / Tyler Graphic Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY Through April 18, 2022, the UK's Dulwich Picture Gallery brings together a major exhibition of woodcuts by the leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011). Shining a light on her groundbreaking woodcuts, *Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty* showcases the artist as a creative force and a trailblazer of printmaking, who endlessly pushed the possibilities of the medium. Rang... read more
“Georgia O’Keeffe” at Fondation Beyeler 23 January – 22 May 2022
The Fondation Beyeler will devote the first exhibition of its anniversary year to Georgia O’Keeffe (1887– 1986), one of the most significant painters and an icon of modern American art. With 85 works from mainly American public and private collections, “Georgia O’Keeffe” offers a representative overview of this exceptional artist’s many-faceted and endlessly surprising work. The retrospective provides European viewers with a rare opportunity for such in-depth exploration of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, which is hardly represented in collections outside the United States. The exhibit... read more
William Baziotes
*Reading Public Museum * *May 14 through September 25, 2022* William Baziotes, (American, 1912 – 1963), The Souvenir, 1940s, oil on canvas, 18 x 20 1/8 inches, Gift, The Ethel Baziotes Trust and Estate of William Baziotes © Estate of William Baziotes The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum received two major gifts in 2021 and 2022 from The Ethel Baziotes Trust and Estate of William Baziotes in New York, New York. The large gift of nearly one hundred works includes sketchbooks, drawings, watercolors and gouaches, oil paintings on canvas and board, and archival material repre... read more
Cézanne in the Barnes FoundationEdited by André Dombrowski and Nancy Ireson and Sylvie Patry A monumental volume devoted to one of the world’s largest and most spectacular collections of Cézannes. The Barnes Foundation’s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)—sixty-one oils on canvas and eight works on paper—are among the most significant in the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually unrivaled collectio... read more
Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. As one of the most important artists of the avant-garde movement, Mondrian shaped the evolution of painting from figuration to abstraction. His early work was influenced not only by late 19th-century Dutch landscape painting but also by Symbolism and Cubism. It was only in the early 1920s that he began concentrating on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary consisting solely of rectilinear arrangements of black lines on a white backgr... read more
*The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University* *Jan. 26 to July 10, 2022* seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long history of American artistic engagement with anti-Black violence. From the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013 and up to today, (2) Dox Thrash, After the Lynching, late 1930s. Carborundum mezzotint. 5 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Emory Douglas, November 16, 1972, 1972. © 2021 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. “Ho... read more
* Palmer Museum of Art**through May 15, 2022* Lee Krasner (American, 1908–1984), Composition, 1949, oil on canvas, 38 1/16 x 27 13/16 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the Aaron E. Norman Fund, Inc., 1959, 1959-31-1 © 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A captivating new exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State considers how some of the most provocative midcentury artists made the leap from figuration to abstraction. A Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s features major works by Suzy Frelinghuysen, Arshile Gorky, Paul... read more
Over 70 years ago, Swann held the first auction dedicated to photography in the United States. This 1952 photography auction was astonishingly early for a sale devoted to a medium just 113 years old and still finding its artistic footing in the marketplace. Seven decades later, however, the landscape for this diverse and innovative medium has grown dramatically. The past few decades bore witness to a blossoming market, with numerous galleries, auction houses, and a vibrant, devoted, passionate group of collectors spread around the world. In 1952,... read more
*McNay Art Museum* * January 21 - May 8, 2022* San Antonio, TX (January 17, 2022) – Opening Friday, January 21, at the McNay Art Museum, *Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism* presents a wide-ranging view of the American Modernist movement through 65 diverse artworks from the McNay’s permanent collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and rare loans from across the country. Georgia O’Keeffe, From the Plains I, 1953. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Tom Slick, 1973.22. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights S... read more
Gift Of More Than 600 Photographs To The Portland Museum of Art
*Richard Avedon* (United States, 1923-2004), *Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan, evening dresses by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959*, 1959, gelatin silver print, 19 1⁄2 x 29 inches. Museum purchase with gift in honor of Judith Glickman Lauder, 2020.7. Photograph by Richard Avedon. © The Richard Avedon Foundation The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is proud to announce that Judy Glickman Lauder—photographer, collector, humanitarian, advocate, philanthropist, and communit... read more
*Worcester Art Museum* *November 13, 2021 through March 13, 2022* Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London, is an exploration of the role of love in some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. For over a year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled people around the globe to be physically separated from loved ones. In tragic cases they have experienced loss and suffering. It is thus a timely moment to reflect on how portraits sustain us during long periods apart and preserve the memory of those no longer with us. As the first venue in an internation... read more
*Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum* *14 June to 11 September 2022* For the first time in Spain, the museum is presenting a retrospective on the American painter Alex Katz (born New York, 1927), one of the key figures in the history of 20th century American art and a forerunner of Pop Art who continues active today. The exhibition is curated by Guillermo Solana, the museum’s artistic director, and it benefits from the support of the artist and his studio, who are in close contact with this project. The display includes around 30 large-format oils accompanied by various studies, ... read more
The curated sale of 69 lots is dedicated to 19th Century American paintings, drawings and sculpture, and is anchored by two noteworthy collections from Houston, Texas—the James William Glanville and Nancy Hart Glanville Collection and the Estate of Patrick Rutherford, Jr.—which feature important works by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Leading the sale is the resplendent *In the Yosemite* by Albert Bierstadtwhich captures the awe of Cathedral Rocks on a crystalline day, and is among the property from the Estate of Patrick Rutherford, Jr. (estimat... read more
RENOIR. ROCOCO REVIVAL
*Städel Museum* *2 March to 19 June 2022* Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is one of the outstanding painters of French Impressionism. Venturing beyond the bounds of that characterization, the Städel Museum is now staging a major special exhibition that takes the first-ever in-depth look at the surprising connections between Renoir’s art and Rococo painting. Whereas the latter was considered frivolous and immoral after the French Revolution, it underwent a revival in the nineteenth century and was widely visible in Renoir’s lifetime. He was also intimately acquainted with the ... read more
The New Deal not only established a great legacy, but a greater generation of artists whose works defined the American spirit. The visual art produced under the Federal Arts Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), and the other “alphabet agencies” remains timeless. Capturing vernacular architecture to the rise of the modern city, the elevation of visual and performing arts, interior scenes of domestic laborers to pool halls — allowed artists to paint, print, and photograph during a period of great strife as a means to forge forward. They helped form a modern American ... read more
* Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York**August 1, 2021–October 24, 2021* *Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OhioMarch 4, 2022–June 5, 2022* *Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North CarolinaAugust 25, 2022–January 8, 2023* The first major museum exhibition to explore the early work of Roy Lichtenstein, one the most celebrated American artists of the 20th century, will be on view at the Columbus Museum of Art from March 4 through June 5, 2022. - ROY LICHTENSTEIN HISTORY IN THE MAKING, 1948–1960 August 1–October 24, 2021 Premiering at the... read more
*The New Britain Museum of American Art * *January 28 to March 22* A stunning array of over 40 paintings created between 1818 and 1886, The Poetry of Nature illustrates America’s scenic splendor as seen through the eyes of over 25 leading Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, as well as lesser-known but important artists Josephine Walters, Christopher Pearse Cranch, and Louisa Davis Minot, among others. Albert Bierstadt, Autumn Woods, Oneida County, State of New York, 1886. Oil on linen, 54 x 84 in. New-York Histor... read more
*Kunsthistorisches Museum * *5 OCTOBER 2021 TO 16 JANUARY 2022 * Each year, the Kunsthistorisches Museum dedicates its autumn show to the Old Masters. The exhibition Titian’s Vision of Women shows over sixty paintings from international as well as the museum’s own collections in order to illuminate the depiction of women in the oeuvre of the Venetian master Titian (c.1488‒1576) and his contemporaries. Exceptional works are on loan from, among others, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the
*Lyme Academy of Fine Arts * *January 14 through March 18, 2022* Lennart Anderson, Portrait of Mrs. Suzy Peterson, 1959. Oil on canvas, 30 3/16 × 26 15/16 in. (76.7 × 68.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award 63.49 Lennart Anderson, 'Self-Portrait', c. 1965, Oil on canvas, 10 x 13 in. Private Collection. *When you look at nature from a distance, you can see how it all fits together. There is a harmony, and that is what interests me*. - Lennart Anderson After a fall run at the New York Studio School, *Lennart Anders... read more
* The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Greensburg, PA (September 26, 2021 - January 09, 2022)* *Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA (February 5 – May 8, 2022), * *Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL (June 5 – September 18, 2022), * *Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (October 30, 2022 – January 15, 2023).* An undated image provided by the estate of Doris Lee shows “Thanksgiving,” 1935, a painting by the artist. A major new retrospective, “Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee,” traveling nationally through 2023, is reintroducing the painter and illustrator at the nexus of folk ar... read more
Italian painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century from Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Collection at the MNAC
*Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya* *From 25 October 2021 to 9 January 2022* Curator: Mar Borobia When the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opened in 1992 an important and representative selection of nearly 80 works of the Italian and German schools was placed on long-term deposit for display at the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona through an agreement reached between Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and the city’s mayor, Pasqual Maragall. In 2004 that group was moved to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) where it continues to be exhibited today. Dosso and Battista Doss... read more
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Penn., February 5 to May 8, 2022. “Cold Case” by Wayne Thiebaud, 2010/2011/2013. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York. Courtesy Acquavella Galleries.Nine Jelly Apples, 1964, watercolor and graphite. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932. Photography by Tony De Camillo, © Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Wayne Thiebaud, Reservoir and Orchard, 2001, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches (101.6 x 101.6 cm), Collection of Wayne and Betty Jean Thiebaud. Art... read more
Martin Johnson Heade, 'Orchid and Hummingbirds Near a Mountain Lake,' c. 1875–90. Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company and trustee associate at Boston College, has gifted 27 paintings and three drawings—worth in excess of $20 million—from his and his late wife Carolyn’s private art collection to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, including renowned works from Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierst... read more
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
*Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American ArtSeptember 29, 2021–February 13, 2022* The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is being presented simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia . A single exhibition in two venues, this unprecedented collaboration, *Jasper* *Johns: Mind/Mirror*, will be the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in a quarter century. It opens concurrently in Philadelphia and in New York on Septemb... read more
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