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| Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window, c. 1820 |
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| Join art historian Karen Pope for study tours, day trips, and informal luncheon programs to expand your horizons or fill gaps in your world of art. No background or experience is necessary--just curiosity!
Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good company of companions with similar interests.
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Recommended temporary museum exhibitions around Texas are listed on this page
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Day Trips, Study Tours, and future destinations are described on the Study Tours page
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For a history of tours and other notes, see About Art inSight.
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| "Salon hang," Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| 2020 MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES: "9 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context"
Choice of two dates, two venues, two formats
*** REGISTRATION IS OPEN! ***
Preregistration is expected; deadline for registration is 5 days in advance of the program.
Email to hold a place, then mail check payable to Art inSight to:
PO Box 5730
Austin TX 78763-5730
Please include your email address in order to receive a confirmation and other material and
specify the date you are attending; request special meal (GF, Veg, Vegan) by email.
Friday Luncheons @ Chateau Bellevue (capacity: 150)
(Austin Woman's Club, seated luncheon, free parking in AWC lot; complimentary house tour)
10:30am - 1:00pm
$45 per person per program --"Series subscription" option: $400 for 9 programs
Thursday Morning Coffees @ Neill-Cochran House Museum (capacity: 45)
(coffee, tea, pastries, free parking behind Museum; complimentary Museum visit)
9:30-11:30am
$30 per person per program --"Series subscription" option: $250 for 9 programs
SCHEDULE of TOPICS:
| Parthenon, 447BC |
Jan 10 @ CB |
Jan16 @ NCHM |
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| Augustus of Prima Porta, 20BC |
Feb 14 @ CB |
Feb 13 @ NCHM |
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| Pala d'Oro (San Marco, Venice), 976f |
Mar 20 @ CB |
Mar 19 @ NCHM |
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| Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1434 |
Apr 24 @ CB |
Apr 23 @ NCHM |
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| Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 |
June 30 @ CB [T] |
July 2 @ NCHM |
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| David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784 |
July 17 @ CB |
July 16 @ NCHM |
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| Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873 |
Aug 28 @ CB |
Aug 27 @ NCHM |
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| Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884f |
Oct 30 @ CB
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Oct 29 @ NCHM |
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| Picasso, Guernica, 1937 |
Nov 13 @ CB |
Nov 12 @ NCHM |
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| Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna |
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2019 Great Art Museums, part 2
2018 Great Art Museums, part 1
2017 Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 2
2016 Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 1
2015 Japan & the West
2014 9 Great Cities and Their Depiction by Artists
2013 Back to the Birthdays, Artists in Their Birthday Months
2012 The World's Great Buildings: Milestones in Architecture
2011 Women in Art/Art of Women
2010 Art of Nations: Survey of Art History, One Country at a Time
2009 Angels, Saints and Their Friends in Art History
2008 Time Capsules: A Survey of Seven Centuries
2007 Un-Birthday Parties (for great artists with inconvenient birthdates)
1995-2006 Birthday Parties for great artists, on their true birthdays
Potential Future Series Topics:
Key Works of World Architecture, Stonehenge to Safdie
Great Moments in Art History, Antiquity to Modern
Perspectives on Movies about Great Artists
A Year with Prints: Basics of the major printmaking processes, handling examples, studio and collection visits
Art History Survey: Prehistory through the Present
Great Works in each medium, one medium at a time, emphasis on process and effect (marble, etching, tempera, etc.)
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| Special Events of Note:
Neill-Cochran House Museum (Austin landmark, Abner Cook 1855)
"Modern Times" Speaker Series 2019-20 -- Season 13:
"The Other Mid-Century Modern: 1845-55, Texas Statehood and the International Scene"
13 October -- Karen Pope
"The Great Exhibition: Prince Albert, Industry and Spectacle in 1851)
17 November -- Brandice Nelson
"Reckoning with England: Viewing Early Texas from Across the Pond"
26 January -- Caroline Crimm
"Women in Frontier Texas: Contrasts and Contradictions"
27 February -- Jennifer Cumberbatch and Ted Gordon
"Master Builders of a Modern City: Slavery in Early Austin"
27 March -- Francesca Christian and Ev Lunning
"Charles Dickens: Home on the Range"
19 April -- Charlotte Canning
"Theater in Early Austin"
SPACE LIMITED, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
(Free to current Friends of the NCHM; $10 per person per event otherwise):
REGISTER FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS ONLINE or call the Museum: 512-478-2335
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| ABILENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRACE MUSEUM ♦ www.thegracemuseum.orgM
AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY • www.cah.utexas.edu
From Commemoration to Education: Pompeo Coppini's Statue of Jefferson Davis
Commissioned in 1919 by university regent Major George W. Littlefield the statue was envisioned as part of a much larger allegorical memorial, the Littlefield Fountain, intended to honor Texans who died in the Civil War and World War I while also addressing the reconciliation of the northern and southern states between those wars. However, the memorial and its campus setting and cultural context changed significantly over the course of its development. No longer an object of commemoration, the statue was moved in 2015 and now forms part of a new exhibition that explores the statue's history, as well as its significance as both a work of art and evidence of the past.
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN • http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM ♦ www.nchmuseum.org
The NCHM's major structural renovation is complete and, for the first time in 50 years, this Greek Revival mansion has bright paint, splendid wallpaper, and Cochran furnishings in new bedroom installations. Changing exhibitions highlight aspects of life in long-ago Austin, and art and artifacts from the House's period of interpretation complement adult lecture series and family programming, offering numerous reasons to visit and return.
Prominent upon a Hill: The Unlikely Birth and Growth of Austin
(through December 20, 2019)
In 1839, Sam Houston wrote that, “there is no site more unfortunate on Earth for the Seat of Government.” See how Austin survived its unlikely beginnings and grew during its first century of existence.
The Art of the Japanese Fan: Selections from the Josephine West Ladd Collection
(through February 2, 2020)
Japanese aesthetics exerted tremendous influence on Americans and Europeans from the 19th century through a substantial part of the 20th century. This display captures the fascination of one American collector with folding fans as icons of Japanese design.
If These Walls Could Talk (January 15 - April 26, 2020)
Ginger Geyer's porcelain trompe-l'oeil sculptures of everyday objects placed throughout the Museum will set the stage for dialogues between Chlora (imaginary resident of the NCHM sometime in the past) and Ruby Virginia, her visiting friend, enacted by performance artist Jennifer Cumberbatch, dialogues between sculptor and actress, etc.
Numerous special one-time events are planned, dependent on the success of fundraising for this milestone museum project that will be followed by a reinterpretation of the Museum's "Dependency," the 9th-oldest building in Austin and the only extant habitation/workspace used by enslaved laborers (who worked on the construction of the Neill-Cochran House Museum).
UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM) ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
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ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hiroshige's complete series--this set once owned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and gifted to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus in 1984—will be on view at the DMA for the first time in more than 30 years.
Austin printmaker Daryl Howard will give a gallery talk, "Journey along the Tokaido," Wednesday, June 19, at 12:15.
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ♦ www.cartermuseum.org
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.orgRenoir: The Body, The Senses (October 27, 2019 - January 26, 2020)
This daring exhibition of nearly 200 paintings is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form, and it reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism into luminous Impressionism, culminating in the modern classicism of his last decades.
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.org
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ♦ www.swbts.edu/
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
Monet to Picasso: A Very Private Collection (October 27, 2019 - January 12, 2020)
Berthe Morisot: Impressionist Original (October 27, 2019 - January 12, 2020)
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
MENIL COLLECTION ♦ www.menil.org
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM ♦ www.camh.org
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ♦ www.crafthouston.org
THE PEARL [The Pearl Fincher MFA, Cypress Creek/Spring TX] ♦ www.pearlmfa.org
ORANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
STARK MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.starkmuseum.org/
THE W. H. STARK HOUSE ♦ http://www.whstarkhouse.org/
The 14,000 square-foot three-story house built in 1894 by William Henry Stark and his wife, Miriam M. Lutcher Stark, prominent philanthropists who occupied the home until 1936, was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It house features a distinctive turret, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork in cypress and long leaf yellow pine.
As a historic house museum (National Register of Historic Places) it is interpreted to c. 1900 with fifteen rooms of original family furnishings, personal effects and decorative arts, including antique rugs, original textiles, silver, cut glass, and antique porcelain. Also featured are the Stark family’s impressive collections of American Brilliant Period cut glass, pressed and pattern glass, milk glass, porcelains, and other 18th and 19th century decorative accessories.
SAN ANGELO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.samfa.org
SAN ANTONIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mary Cassatt's Women (October 31, 2019 - February 9, 2020)
Cassatt's Cup of Tea, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art anchors a small exhibition of related works, most especially Cassatt's japoniste suite of aquatints called "Ten à la Japonais." Cassatt produced only 25 impressions of each of the 10 images, and most sets were separated; the McNay has all ten prints, and the set is one of the museum's true treasures.
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement (October 11, 2019 - January 5, 2020)
An exhibition from the premier collection of Pre-Raphaelite painting, The Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (UK)
Tune in to the PRB via Andrew Lloyd Webber's personal view, "Passion for the Pre-Raphaelities" on YouTube.
Historic houses at the Witte:
- The Ruiz House was the home of the city’s first schoolmaster
- The Twohig House was built in 1841 by Irishman John Twohig
- The Navarro House was built in 1835 by Jose Antonio Navarro
- The Log Cabin was constructed in 1939 by 30 youths participating in President Roosevelt’s National Youth Administration program. The “dog trot” style cabin represents the type of cabin built by many Texas pioneers.
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MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART • www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/
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| Honoré Daumier, On a Bridge at Night, 1845-48 (Phillips Collection) |
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| Auguste Rodin, study for Balzac |
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Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas
Not meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
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| Joaquin Sorolla, Valencia, 1909 |
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| The Danish flag, miraculously appearing during a battle by Danes to Christianize the Estonians in 1219 |
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AMSTERDAMRijksmuseum • https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/enRembrandt-Velázquez, Dutch and Spanish Masters (through January 19, 2020)Subtitled "Dialogues of Reality and Eternity," 60 paintings exhibited in pairs to offer visual dialogues; in observance of the Year of Rembrandt 2019 and the 200th anniversary of the Prado
Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/enJean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art (through January 12, 2020)
BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art (September 29, 2019 - January 19, 2020)
BARCELONA
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • www.mnac.cat/
BENTONVILLE
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • crystalbridges.org
including Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House, 1957
BERLINMartin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.de
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
BILBAO • www.guggenheim-bilbao.esGuggenheim Museum Bilbao
BONN
Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
BURLINGTON VT
Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.org
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum • http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu
Twisted: Patrick Dougherty Entwined at the Taft (ongoing, front lawn)
a cluster of Dougherty's signature willow-sapling forms, involving 6 tons of material and the help of 150 volunteers
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
COLUMBUS OH
Columbus Museum of Art • http://www.columbusmuseum.org/
COPENHAGEN
National Gallery of Denmark • http://www.smk.dk/en/
DENVER
Denver Art Museum • www.denverartmuseum.org/Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature (October 20, 2019 - February 2, 2020)
The Denver Art Museum will be home to the most comprehensive U.S. exhibition of Monet paintings in more than two decades. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings spanning Monet’s entire career and will focus on the celebrated French impressionist artist’s enduring relationship with nature and his response to the varied and distinct places in which he worked.
DETROIT
Detroit Institute of Arts • https://www.dia.org/
Humble and Human: Impressionist Era Treasure from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts (through October 13, 2019)
40 paintings by all the major Impressionists, emphasizing their concentration on the depiction of everyday experience
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse •
ELK HORN, IOWAMuseum of Danish America • https://www.danishmuseum.org
Dannebrog 800: a year-long celebration of the world's oldest continuously used national flag, first appearing in 1219
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
GAINESVILLE
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu
HELSINKI
Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, loan and display projected to occur in 2022
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age (February 22 - May 31, 2020)
Artemisia (April 6 - July 26, 2020)
Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi and follower of Caravaggio, made famous in historical fiction and film
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace •
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing (through October 13, 2019)
In observance of the 500th n of Leonardo's death, an exhibitio of 200 drawings from Windsor Castle that illustrate every aspect of Leonardo’s career, from its beginnings in Florence to its final days in France.
William Blake: The Artist (September 11, 2019 - February 2, 2020)
Baroque in Britain (February 5 - April 19, 2020)
Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits (August 28, 2018–October 13, 2019)
A special opportunity to see the works for which the medium was created, seldom exhibited because of fragility in light
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met (through October 4, 2019)
Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955-60 (through April 5, 2020)
Epic Abstraction (ongoing)
See thoughtful overview by Karen Wilkin, WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/epic-abstraction-review-high-expectations-and-trepidations-11547294400
Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (through February 28, 2021)
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal (through January 12, 2020)
The first exhibition dedicated to this overlooked part of the artist’s practice. The show brings together around 50 of the more than 750 charcoal drawings the Anglo-American portraitist made in the last 18 years of his life, when he shifted from oil to charcoal in order to fulfill commissions.
New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org
Gallery of Tiffany Lamps [100 lamps from the museum's spectacular collection]
Leonardo da Vinci (October 24, 2019 - February 24, 2020)
Musée Jacquemart Andre •
Degas at the Opera (September 24, 2019 - January 19, 2020)
Joris-Karl Huysmans Art Critic: From Degas to Grünewald (December 3, 2019 - March 2, 2020)
Best known for his novel, Against the Grain (Au Rebours), Huysmans is presented in this exhibition as the heir to Baudelaire's decadence
Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) (October 16, 2019 - January 27, 2020)
The first exhibition paying tribute to Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), an important figure in the artistic world in the late 19th and early 20th century. Anarchist, art critic, editor, gallery director and collector, Fénéon espoused an open-minded vision of creation at a time when art was on the verge of the shift to modernity.The section presented at the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in spring 2019 will emphasise the anarchist ideology of Félix Fénéon and how he sought to help artists through his critics, exhibitions and acquisitions. A promoter of Neo-Impressionism, Fénéon passionately advocated the works of his Pointillist friends, Seurat and Signac in particular. He was also an active member of the La Revue blanche circle (French art and literary magazine) before pledging his support to the Fauvists and Futurists in 1906, and particularly in 1912 when he organised the first Futurist exhibition in Paris as artistic director of the Bernheim-Jeune gallery.
PHILADELPHIA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art • https://www.pafa.org
Etch and Flow (through December 29, 2019)Works associated with the American Etching Revival and Impressionist art movements; in conjunction with:
From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic (through December 29, 2019)
An exhibition exploring the important and underexplored tradition of landscape painting in Philadelphia
Horace Pippin: From War to Peace (ongoing)
Rodin Museum • rodinmuseum.orgRethinking the Modern Monument (ongoing)
Applauded and despised in equal measure, Rodin’s public sculptures were viewed as a shocking departure from the methods used for centuries to pay homage to famous figures, and he changed the form forever. See many of the artist’s best-known sculptures alongside works by artists who came after, inspired by the radical intimacy of his public monuments.
PORTLAND (Maine)
Portland Museum of Art • www.portlandmuseum.orgTours of the Winslow Homer studio at Prout's Neck:Available from April through October, twice a day, on select days of the week (207) 775-6148
The Expansion of Cubism, 1911-1920 (June 28 - October 6, 2019)
N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives (October 4, 2019 - January 12, 2020)
SAINT LOUISSaint Louis Art Museum • http://www.slam.org/
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts • http://pulitzerarts.org/
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah Museum of Fine Arts • umfa.utah.edu
SAN DIEGO
San Diego Museum of Art • sdmart.org
SAN FRANCISCO
Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org
De Young/Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • http://deyoung.famsf.org
SAN JOSE
VIENNA
WASHINGTON, DC
Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]
National Museum of Women in the Arts • www.nmwa.org/
Judy Chicago: The End--A Meditation on Death and Extinction (September 19, 2019-January 20, 2020)
40 works of painted porcelain and glass, as well as two large bronze sculptures, tackle human mortality and the extinction of entire species
Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow (July 6 - October 6, 2019)
Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe (1889–1961) was a talented American modernist, whose paintings and prints of the 1920s and 1930s explore realism and abstraction in the service of a distinctive artistic style. Yet the fact that her older sister was the renowned Georgia O’Keeffe begins to explain why most people have not heard of her. Drawing on extensive new research, Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadowassesses Ida’s work and life, including her training, technique, and travels—as well as the sisters’ sibling rivalry, prompted by Georgia’s interest in being the only painter in the family. A fully illustrated catalogue, the first dedicated to the artist, accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, where it was on view Nov 18, 2018 - Feb 24, 2019.
WILMINGTON
Delaware Art Museum • http://www.delart.org/
Howard Pyle Murals (through December 31, 2020)
The complete set of nine mural panels painted by Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) for the drawing room of his home at 907 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware, semi-permanently installed in one of the Vinton Illustration galleries on the second floor of the Museum.
WINTERTHUR (Switzerland)
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" • www.bundesmuseen.ch/roemerholz/
Villa Flora Winterthur: Sammlung Hahnloser • https://www.villaflora.ch
Closed for renovations, opening in 2022
YERRES, FRANCE--new museum:
La Propriété Caillebotte à Yerres • http://proprietecaillebotte.com/en/
Part of a nice long day SE of Paris: Yerres, Barbizon, Moret-sur-Loing, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau
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| Frank Lloyd Wright, a textile from the Taliesin line (exhibition at the Met) |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Armchair, 1884 (V&A) |
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