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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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Monet, Women in a Garden, 1866 |
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2024 Art inSight Program Series--THEME: "The Painters of Modern Life, Courbet through Picasso" Honoring the 150th anniversary of the first "Impressionist" exhibition, this series will focus on the social/urban subjects of the major artists who contributed to the depiction of life in the "new" Paris
Handy, affordable reference (simple maps of Paris neighborhoods, marked with painters' worksites, studios, hangouts) -- lots of used copies online, bring with you: Ellen Williams, The Impressionists' Paris: Walking Tours of the Artists' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted, 1999
Zoom meetings -- Thursdays 10:00-11:00am Austin Time [pre-Zoom and post-Zoom notes and recording]
$20 per person
Coffee meetings -- Fridays 10:00-11:30am [coffee and program @ Neill-Cochran House Museum]
$30 per person
Preregistration is expected--send email to get your name on the attendance list Registration deadline: Monday of the same week
Registration Options:
• Check, payable to Art inSight, mail to: PO Box 5730, Austin TX 78763-5730
• VENMO, I'll send the identification
• CREDIT CARD, via PayPal link (below)
You are welcome to register for multiple dates at once; all 12 COFFEES $350, 12 ZOOMS $200
SCHEDULE:
1 Gustave Courbet: Proclaiming Realism January 12 (Zoom) & 11 (Coffee @ NCHM) √
2 Baron Haussmann: Transforming Paris February 22 (Zoom) & 23 (Coffee @ NCHM) √ 3 Edouard Manet: Making Art Modern March 14 (Zoom) & 15 (Coffee @ NCHM) √ 4 J. M. Whistler: The World Comes to Paris April 11 (Zoom) & 12 (Coffee @ NCHM) 5 James J. J. Tissot: The Impact of War May 16 (Zoom) & 17 (Coffee @ NCHM) 6 Gustave Caillebotte: Gentlemen at Leisure June 6 (Zoom) & 7 (Coffee @ NCHM)
7 Claude Monet: Leisure and Fashion July 11 (Zoom) & 12 (Coffee @ NCHM)
8 Edgar Degas: The Working Class Witnessed August 22 (Zoom) & 23 (Coffee @ NCHM)
9 Mary Cassatt: Modern Ladies Sept 19 (Zoom) & 20 (Coffee @ NCHM)
10 Auguste Renoir: Commercial Viabillity October 17 (Zoom) & 18 (Coffee @ NCHM)
11 Georges Seurat: Modernity Refined Nov 14 (Zoom) & 15 (Coffee @ NCHM)
12 Modern Life: Review and Legacy December 5 (Zoom) & 6 (Coffee @ NCHM)
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Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna |
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2023 Great Women Artists, Part II 2022 Women Artists in Their Birthday Months, honoring the 50th anniversary of Feminist Art History Studies, f. 1972 2021 Artists in Their Birthday Months 2020 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context 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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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
This is a selective list. Check museum offerings before you go--
you're bound to make some fun discoveries!
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Richard Haas, mural at National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, Fort Worth |
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| ABILENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRACE MUSEUM ♦ www.thegracemuseum.org
AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org The Floating World: Masterieces of Edo Japan from the Worcester Art Museum (through June 30, 2024)
Anni Albers: In Threat and On Paper (through June 30, 2024)
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 "Modern Times" lecture series (free to members): Austin and World Events 1885-1895
Register for events at NCHM website: "Visit" page > Events
UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM) ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org James Surls Now o Now 14 thought 14 (through April 7,, 2024) Focus exhibition of one immense work in Surls' signature hovering wooden hewn "petals"
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Love Island: Japanese Weddings of the Edo Period (through October 6, 2024) A selection of elegant and luxurious bridal objects on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, including a black and gold lacquer toilette set that once belonged to a member of the Tokugawa ruling clan, an incense guessing game set, and a lavish wedding kimono, exploring the exquisite artistry and craftsmanship of some of the important elements of an Edo period bridal trousseau
The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse (through November 3, 2024)
Exhibition highlighting one of the great strengths of the DMA collection
From Munch to Kirchner: The Heins Collection of Modern and Expressionist Art (through January 5, 2025)
A recet gift of 30 paintings divided evenly between late 19th- and early 20th-century art movements: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and German Expressionism, Heins’s favorite. Highlights include works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edvard Munch—artists who depicted contemporary subjects in an equally contemporary style.
MAC: McKINNEY AVENUE CONTEMPORARY ♦ www.the-mac.org
MEADOWS MUSEUM @ SMU (Southern Methodist University) ♦ smu.edu/meadows/museum Artist Spotlight: Teresa Lanceta (through June 16, 2024) Recipient of the Spanish National Prize for Fine Arts, this artist (with a PhD in art history!) produces large-scale and intricately-designed tapestries, which are exhibited here with painted and sewn fabric and pencil drawings
Plasters and Bronzes by Jean (Hans) Arp (through April 21, 2024
A recent gift of 21 plaster sculptures and 3 bronzes by Jean (Hans) Arp (French, born Germany, 1886–1966) makes their debut at the Nasher, alongside Arp’s Torso with Buds, the founding work of Raymond and Patsy Nasher’s collection of modern and contemporary sculpture.
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ♦ www.cartermuseum.org
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the MFA Bostson (November 10, 2024 - February 9, 2025)
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.org NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net Dare to Wear: a spectacular display of designer cowgirl fashion
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
Charles M. Russell: Storyteller across Media (through April 2024)
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayal of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. Listen to artist's words in a video produced in the MFAH exhibition: https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/kehinde-wiley-archaeology-silence
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origins of Fauvism (February 25 – May 27, 2024) International loan exhibition featuring 65 works by Matisse and Derain to explore the earth-shaking events of 1905 when they became known as The Fauves--painters resembling wild beasts in their audacious handling of paint and color.
Daytrip to Houston Feb 29! See Study Tours page
THE PEARL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS • www.pearlmfa.org The Pearl is a non-collecting fine art museum, borrowing from public and private collections. The museum complements its exhibitions with an active schedule of programs and services. Founded on the community center concept, the Pearl reaches beyond traditional museums to enlighten, educate, and entertain. The Pearl is housed in a former county library, leased to the museum and renovated through private funds, grants, and gifts. The Pearl is wholly supported through the community. Over 3,000 donors have given to the museum to date.
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
ORANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STARK MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.starkmuseum.org/
Steuben Glass: Stories Engraved in Crystal (ongoing)
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 ANTONIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Particular Beauty: 19th-Century French Art at the McNay (March 13 - June 16, 2024)
Samurai Spirit: Swords, Accessories, and Paintings (through January 26, 2025)
WITTE MUSEUM ♦ www.wittemuseum.org
Historic houses, natural history, and occasional art exhibitions
WACO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART • www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/
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James Surls, Seven and Seven Flower, 1998 |
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Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas Not a comprehensive list, just items of interest ... NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
WOW: Chihuly at Biltmore 2024! SEE BELOW
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| MOST "IMPORTANT" EXHIBITION this Spring:
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
1 November 2023 — 14 April 2024
See below
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BIG ANNIVERSARIES/EVENTS in ART HISTORY in 2024:
• Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo) 300
• Caspar David Friedrich 250 Watch for special events celebrating this remarkable early 19th-century landscape painter (focus of Art inSight study tour to Berlin in 2015); Hamburg Kunsthalle exhibition . . .
• National Gallery London 200
• Impressionism 150 (1874 was the first year these independent artists exhibited together; they organized 7 further exhibitions, the last in 1886). Art inSight is celebrating this sesquicentennial in the 2024 lecture series, "Painters of Modern Life" (see schedule, above)
• Centenary of Surrealism
• St Martin in the Fields Marriner 100
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Honoré Daumier, Art Lovers, 1863 |
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AMSTERDAMRijksmuseum • https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en Frans Hals, Way Ahead of His Time (Febryar 16 - June 9, 2024) see superb details and descriptions: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/frans-hals Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en
ASHEVILLE Biltmore • https://www.biltmore.com/ Chihuly at Biltmore (March 25, 2024 - January 5, 2025)A "debut installation" of pedestal works, Drawings, and large-scale installations of Chandeliers, Towers, Mille Fiori, and
ATLANTAHigh Museum • https://high.org/Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection (new installation)
Shaheen Collection of French Works (ongoing)
A family collection focused on French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
BALTIMORE Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
BARCELONA Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • https://www.museunacional.cat/en
BASEL Kunstmuseum Basel • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Fondation Beyeler • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
BENTONVILLE Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • crystalbridges.org including Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House, 1957
BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • https://bampfa.org/
BERLINAlte Nationalgalerie • https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/alte-nationalgalerie/home/ Art of the Nineteenth Century (permanent exhibition) Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes (through April 8, 2024)
Gemäldegalerie • https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/gemaeldegalerie/home/
Paintings from the 13th to 18th Century (permanent exhibition)
Unlocking Christian Art (ongoing)
Martin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.de
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.chFrom Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to Pablo Picasso, from Jackson Pollock to Meret Oppenheim (through December 2024) BILBAO Guggenheim Museum Bilbao • www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
BLOOMINGTON Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University) • https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/
BONN Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de
BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/Dali: Disruption and Devotion (July 6 - December 1, 2024)
BREMEN Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Museum of Art • brooklynmuseum.org The Dinner Party Today: Conversations on a Landmark Feminist Work: a new pocast . . . info here: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/stories/the-dinner-party-today-judy-chicago
BRUSSELS
Bozar -- must be there somewhere . . .
BURLINGTON VT Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.orgVermont Furniture at Shelburne Museum (May 11 - October 20, 2024)
All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955 (June 22 - October 20, 2024)
CAMBRIDGE Fitzwilliam Museum • http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/William Blake's Universe (February 23 - May 19, 2024)
CHARLESTONBrookgreen Gardens • https://www.brookgreen.org/
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
African Modernism in America (February 10 - May 19, 2024) 60 dynamic and vivid works of art created in Africa during the 1950s and ‘60s. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries
CLEVELAND Cleveland Museum of Art • https://www.clevelandart.org/
COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
COLUMBUS OH Columbus Museum of Art • http://www.columbusmuseum.org/
DUSSELDORF
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse • www.rct.uk/whatson/
ELK HORN, IOWAMuseum of Danish America • https://www.danishmuseum.org
FLINT, MICHIGAN Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
FLORENCE Palazzo Strozzi Museu del Bargello • https://www.florence-museum.com/bargello-museum Uffizi • https://www.uffizi-gallery
GAINESVILLE Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu
GHENTMuseum of Fine Arts (MSK) • https://www.mskgent.be/en
THE HAGUE Kunstmuseum Den Haag [formerly Gemeentemuseum] • www.kunstmuseum.nlDiscover the Modern (ongoing)
Mauritshuis • https://www.mauritshuis.nl/
HELSINKI Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
Glamorous Women (through May 19, 2024)
Drip Splatter Wash: An Exploration of Watercolor and Technique (through June 9, 2024)
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain (through September 29, 2024)
Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, to be on loan and display 2025-2027
Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking (June 19 - October 20, 2024)
The Last Caravaggio (April 18 - July 21, 2024)
Discover Degas & Miss La La (June 6 - September 1, 2024)
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (Septemer 14, 2024 - January 19, 2025)
Cute (through April 14, 2024)
Extensive description: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/press/cute
Philip Guston (no dates posted)
Camille Claudel (April 2 - July 21, 2024)
Including about 60 sculptures, this major exhibition seeks to reevaluate Claudel’s work and affirm her legacy within a more complex genealogy of Modernism.
Nineteenth-Century Photography Now (April 9 - July 7, 2024)
Exploring the Alps (November12, 2024 - April 27, 2025)
Organized around Giovanni Segantini’s monumental pastel Study for “La Vita” depicting the Alpine peaks that ringed his home in the Engadine Valley in Switzerland, this focused exhibition highlights the different ways in which later 19th-century artists explored and depicted the Alps. Themes include the joys and difficulties of working outdoors and the connections between the land and its inhabitants.
The Speed Collects: Empires to Revolutions, 1700-1825 (ongoing)
Includes Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's portrait of Madame Adélaïde, 1787
MADISON
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
MANCHESTER
MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Museum of Art •
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (February 23 - June 9, 2024)
175 objects exploring Potter's studies of the natural world that led to her endearing, enduring stories; family-friendly with special labels for children and reading areas surrounded by Potter's work
Belle da Costa Greene (Fall 2024) Exhibition devoted to the story of Morgan's "personal librarian," who built the library collection and eventually directed the Library; subject of the acclaimed book by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian, 2021
New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org Gallery of Tiffany Lamps [100 lamps from the museum's spectacular collection]
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PALO ALTO Stanford University: Cantor Arts Center • museum.stanford.edu
PARIS Fondation Louis Vuitton
Exquisite collection of French XVIII art and furnishings assembled by Moise da Camondo in memory of his son, Nissim; the Camondo Family were neighbors of the Ephrussi Family close to Parc Monceau, the inspiration behind Edmund de Waal's Letters to Camondo
Petit Palais •
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.
PLYMOUTH The Box • https://www.theboxPORTLAND (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
PORTLAND (Oregon) Portland Art Museum • https://portlandartmuseum.org/ ROME Scuderie del Quirinale • https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/
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
SALTRAM • https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/saltram
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
SANTA FE
VERSAILLES
Chateau de Versailles
VICENZA
Faustina's Braids: Hairstyles, Women and Power in the Renaissance (through April 7, 2024)
VIENNA
Vienna 1900: Birth of Modernism (ongoing)
WASHINGTON, DC Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]
WOOSTER
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Leon Loughridge, Wet Mountain Hays, woodblock print |
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