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William H. Johnson’s World on Paper
The career of William H. Johnson (1901–1970) was one of the most brilliant yet tragic of any early 20th-century American artist. Best known for his lively paintings of the African American experience...
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Diane Arbus Revelations
From October 25, 2003, through February 8, 2004, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presented the groundbreaking exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations. Co-organized by guest curator Elisabeth...
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Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
“Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape,” the first major retrospective in 35 years devoted to this celebrated leader of the Hudson River School, was on view from Sept. 14 through...
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Max Ernst at the Fondation Beyeler
From 26 May to 8 September 2013 there will be on exhibition of over 160 of the works the “artist of the century” Max Ernst (1891–1976) at the Fondation Beyeler in cooperation with the...
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Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
“Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections” celebrated the vision and passion of private collectors who are formally affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum....
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Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
(click on links for more info and images)When the first printed images appeared in Europe in the fifteenth century they were limited to the small size and shape of a sheet of paper that could fit in a...
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Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Miró – Surrealism in Paris
From October 2, 2011 – January 29, 2012 the Fondation Beyeler displayed a comprehensive exhibition Surrealism in Paris. On view were major works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst,...
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
From October 21, 2009 to January 10, 2010 the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented a major traveling retrospective celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia,...
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Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presented Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum from October 2, 2010 – January 2, 2011. This selection of forty...
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Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi
Nearly eighty masterpieces of Italian Renaissance drawing from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, including a number of rarely seen works, were on view only at The Morgan Library & Museum from January 25...
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THE ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT, GREECE and ITALY
HARP-PLAYER. From an Egyptian painting. EGYPT.Egyptian painting is principally found on the walls of temples and tombs, upon columns and cornices, and on small articles found in burial places. There is...
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J.M.W. Turner At Washington National Gallery
The largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever presented in the United States of the career of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art, premiered...
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Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance
Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532) was one of the most startling and versatile artists of the Northern Renaissance. A pivotal Old Master, Gossaert changed the course of Flemish art, going beyond the...
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Pierre Bonnard at the Fondation Beyeler
With the exhibition “Pierre Bonnard”, 29 January – 13 May 2012, the Fondation Beyeler celebrated one of the most fascinating of modern artists. With more than 60 paintings by the renowned French...
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MASTERWORKS FROM THE MORGAN: Drawings
MASTERWORKS FROM THE MORGAN: Drawings (April 29–through July 2, 2006) comprised approximately one hundred works from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, highlighting the breadth and depth of the...
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Edgar Degas - Late Work
The Fondation Beyeler’s exhibition 30 September 2012 to 27 January 2013 of work by Edgar Degas (1834–1917)was the first ever show devoted to this important late 19th century French painter to focus...
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Collecting Gauguin: The Courtauld Gallery Through 8 September 2013
The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Assembled by the pioneering collector Samuel...
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The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure
The Courtauld Gallery: 17 October 2013 to 12 January 2014 This exhibition focuses on the remarkable early figure drawings of the great German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). It examines...
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Celebrating Rembrandt: Etchings from the Morgan
To celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669), from July 15 through October 1, 2006 the Morgan Library & Museum presented highlights from its...
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New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection at The Metropolitan...
Some sixty photographs of New York City from the 1850s to the 1970s—including many landmarks of American photography—were on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 7 through August 25, 2002....
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