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At the bottom of this long page:
15-page (.pdf) lists of fall-2017-early-2018 exhibitions in the US and EUROPE: An excellent resource for planning and travel!
For all Renoir lovers, see excellent review of newest book by world-renowned Renoir scholar, Barbara Ehrlich White--on the "About" page (tab above)
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| 2018 Luncheon Series at Westwood Country Club:
"Great Art Museums"
Beautiful images, art history, food, and good company, in the Garden Room (capacity: 80)
at Westwood Country Club in west Austin.
(Address: 3808 W. 35th Street, adjacent to Laguna Gloria at the western end of 35th Street)
10:30am coffee and conversation
11:00 illustrated program
12:00 seated luncheon (dietary restrictions accommodated with advance communication)
Cost per luncheon program in the 2018 series is $45 per person.
"Series subscription" option: $425 for series of 10 programs
[cost raised reluctantly to cover 2018 venue contract increase]
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Schedule of Dates and Topics:
(Each topic presented one Thursday and one Friday--specify your choice of dates when registering)
- Rijksmuseum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 17-18
- National Gallery, Washington . . . . . . . . . . February 7-8
- Louvre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15-16
- Musée d’Orsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 19-20
- Hermitage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 3-4 (30 spots remain on each date)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York . . . June 7-8
- Museum of Modern Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 12-13
- Art Institute of Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 23-24
- National Gallery, London . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 13-14
- Vatican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 15-16
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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
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Neill-Cochran House Museum
The War at Home" World War I Comes to Texas (March 21 - December 21, 2018)
This exhibit takes us back in time 100 years to life as experienced by Texans during World War I. The war was disruptive to family life in many ways. Enlistments certainly separated families, but everyday life was also impacted in many ways, from pressure to purchase war bonds, to the impact of the Spanish Flu, to a certain level of militarization of society, and food rationing.
While the image of the "dough-boy" that has come down to us today is of a white American soldier, the war effort affected all families. Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and German-Americans in many ways struggled to prove their Americanness while the country was at war, a struggle that was as acute in Texas as in the rest of the country.
Using the experiences of the Cochran family and other Austinites as a guide, we explore the impact of the Great War on the lives of the people who remained on the home front and the relationships they maintained with soldiers who served elsewhere and abroad
https://thegreatwareffort.splashthat.com/
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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
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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. And there's a food truck this spring!
Is Now the Dream? Photography by Pat Brown (January 17 - May 1, 2018)
Evocative photographs are displayed with the ornate Japanese court dolls that inspired them; complemented by large black-and-white prints from the artist's recent trip to Japan
OTHER PROGRAMMING @ NCHM:
SUNDAY FUNDAY: Free family structured activity, first Sundays, 1-4pm REGISTRATION REQUIRED
512-478-2335 | info@nchmuseum.org
UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.dallasmuseumofart.org
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in American Art (September 16, 2018 - January 6, 2019)
Key paintings by American Precisionists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, and iconic works by the masters of straight photography such as Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, and Edward Steichen characterize a fascinating focus of visual artists between the world wars
Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow (November 18, 2018 - February 24, 2019)
50 works by Georgia O'Keeffe's older sister revealing a distinct artistic identity
Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist (February 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019)
60 paintings from collections all over the world focus on Morisot's treatment of the modern figure
CROW COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART ♦ www.crowcollection.org
MAC: McKINNEY AVENUE CONTEMPORARY ♦ www.the-mac.org
MEADOWS MUSEUM @ SMU (Southern Methodist University) ♦ smu.edu/meadows/museum
Murillo at the Meadows: A 400th Anniversary Celebration (until December 2, 2018)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), was a luminary of Golden Age Seville. The Meadows Museum is in possession of five of this star painter’s works, more paintings by him than any other museum in the United States. This exhibition celebrates this painter by exhibiting the extraordinary holdings by Murillo at the Meadows together with paintings by his Sevillian contemporaries, thus resituating the artist within the artistic context with which he remains so intimately associated.
Memory, MInd, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida (February 4 - June 3, 2018)
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) is one of the major sculptors of the post-war international art movement. His monumental public works can be found throughout Spain, Europe and the Americas. Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida presents 66 works of sculpture, drawing, collage, gravitations, graphic works, and a small selection of artists’ books, representing a general view of the mature phase of this key sculptor of the post-war avant-garde.
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ♦ www.nashersculpturecenter.org
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ♦ www.cartermuseum.org
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach (February 17 - May 13, 2018)
unintended italics cannot be corrected! ugh.
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.orgGoya in Black and White (October 7, 2018 - January 6, 2019)Goya's famous prints, 70 works from MFA Boston's collection
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/
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
BAYOU BEND A Unique Gathering of Americana ♦ www.mfah.org/bayoubend
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 Cowboy is an icon for America. This exhibition explores the imagery of the cowboy and cowgirl in American Western art. It will present both the idealization and the working life of men and women of the West. Paintings, sculptures, drawings and rare books are from the collections of the Stark Museum of Art.
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
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The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics (through Spring 2018)
A dozen highly individual works, including some amazing glazes . . . .
Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museums of Madrid (June 22 - September 16, 2018)
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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Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas
Not meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
FOR COMPREHENSIVE LISTS, US and EUROPE, see .pdfs at the right; search by your destination city
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AMSTERDAMVan Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/enVan Gogh and Japan (March 23 - June 24, 2018)https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/van-gogh-and-japan
BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
BARCELONA
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • www.mnac.cat/
BENTONVILLE
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • crystalbridges.org
Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House (opened November 2015)
Museum visitors will be able to walk through the house, originally built along the Millstone River in New Jersey in 1954, restored several times, and, facilitated by its New Jersey architect-owners, acquired by Crystal Bridges in 2014 and moved to Bentonville to preserve an important building and enhance the Crystal Bridges mission to "connect visitors with the power of art and the beauty of nature."
BERLINMartin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.deGurlitt: Status Report, Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences (Autumn 2018)Aside from being one of just four dealers permitted by the Nazis to sell degenerate art abroad for hard currency, Hildebrand Gurlitt acquired works that had been stolen from Jews, or sold by Jews desperate to leave the country. He ran his own dealership in Hamburg and shopped in occupied Paris during the war for Adolf Hitler’s planned Führermuseum in Linz, Austria, a project that never came to fruition. When Cornelius Gurlitt died in 2014, the unsuspecting sole beneficiary of his will was Bern’s Kunstmuseum . . . Gurlitt's will was contested . . . the German government continues to investigate the collection's provenance . . . but the German culture minister has proceeded with plans for an exhibition
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
BONN
Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
Mark Rothko: Reflection (through July 1, 2018)An immersive experience achieved with an installation of 11 paintings
Past is Present: Revival Jewelry (through August 19, 2018)70 objects—both ancient and revival—trace the revival movement from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The exhibition focuses on four types—archaeological, Classical, Egyptian, and Renaissance. Highlights include a 1924 brooch, on loan from Cartier, paired with an Egyptian winged scarab (740–660 BC) with a similar design; an 1850s embellished gold brooch by Castellani; a Renaissance revival neck ornament (1900–04) designed for Tiffany & Co.; a 1980s Bulgari necklace adorned with Macedonian coins; and a 2002 Akelo pendant that emulates an ancient Etruscan granulation technique.2 articles: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/past-is-present-revival-jewelry
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/Shockingly Made: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing (November 18, 2017 - April 1, 2018)"Drawings and prints showcases his passionate and singular approach to drawing, born of political revolutions and radical aesthetic shifts." A favorite artist of mine, a Swiss who succeeded in England
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado College IDEA Space (InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts) • http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/ideaspace/
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/
Degas: A Passion for Perfection (through May 20, 2018)
More than 100 works consisting of paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, and sculptures in bronze are on view. The exhibition focuses on the most prominent and recurring themes throughout Degas’ 60-year career. These include his interest in learning from the art of the past and from that of his contemporaries, a lifelong fascination with the nude, a passion for horses, and his strong interest in opera and dance. ONLY AMERICAN VENUE
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
Monet and Architecture (April 9 - July 29, 2018)
75 paintings
Tate Britain • www.tate.org.uk
The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London (until May 7, 2018)
Story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape the Franco-Prussian War
LOS ANGELES
The Getty Center • www.getty.edu
Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism (through May 13, 2018)
Features more than eighty paintings by thirty-seven artists from thirteen countries, drawn from prominent collections across the United States and abroad
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
Thomas Cole, American Moralist (through May 13, 2018)
An exhibition that includes some of Cole's greatest hits (Garden of Eden; The Oxbow; Course of Empire) and highest tributes (Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand) and addresses big influences, interactions . . .
Delacroix (September 12, 2018 - January 6, 2019)
150 paintings, drawings, prints; first-ever full-career retrospective in North America
Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugene Delacroix (July 16, 2018 - ?)
Treasures of British Art 1400-2000: The Berger Collection (June 2 - September 9, 2018)
Loan exhibition from the Denver Art Museum
Pattern and Purpose: American Quilts from the Shelburne Museum (October 6, 2018 - January 6, 2019)
35 quilts from a world-famous collection, dated from the 19th through the present
PALO ALTO
Stanford University: Cantor Arts Center • museum.stanford.edu
PARIS
Musée du Louvre • https://www.louvre.fr/en
Delacroix, 1798-1863 (March 26 - July 23, 2018)
200 paintings, drawings, prints; first full-career retrospective in Paris since the centenary exhibition of 1963
Exhibition devoted to Delacroix's major public project in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, not far from Delacroix's home-studio (now the MNED)
Musée d'Orsay • www.musee-orsay.fr
Wild Souls: Symbolism in the Baltic States (April 1 - July 15, 2018)
In Colour: Polychrome Sculpture in France 1850-1910 (June 12 - September 23, 2018)
Musee Rodin • http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950 (April 18 - September 3, 2018)
From jazz and the jitterbug to assembly lines and skylines: the early twentieth century was a time of great social, artistic, and technological change. Artists responded with a revolutionary language of shapes and colors. See how Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, and others challenged convention and forged bold new styles to fit the times.
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
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
De Young/Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • http://deyoung.famsf.org
Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org
SAN JOSE
Crossroads: American Scene Prints from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood (November 17, 2017 - July 8, 2018)
57 prints, 1905-1955, focusing on early 20th-century American culture and society by artists of "the Heartland"
Cézanne Portraits (March 25 - July 1, 2018)
60 paintings explore the chronological development of Cézanne's style and method; sole American venue
Jackson Pollock's Mural (November 19, 2017 - October 28, 2018)
A special installation of the 20-foot-long mural Pollock created for Peggy Guggenheim (on a slow return, after conservation, to its home at the University of Iowa Museum of Art), accompanied by other works by Pollock.
National Museum of Women in the Arts • www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian American Art Museum • http://americanart.si.edu/
WATERVILLE, MAINE
Colby College Museum of Art • www.colby.edu/museum/
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 (June 9 - September 3, 2018)
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
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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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Armchair, 1884 (V&A) |
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