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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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| Jean Shin, Penumbra, 2003 |
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2023 Art inSight Program Series--THEME & SCHEDULE:
MORE GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS
continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of Feminist Art History Studies, f. 1972
Zoom meetings -- Thursdays [pre-Zoom and post-Zoom notes and recording]
$20 per person
Luncheon meetings -- Fridays [coffee, program, seated luncheon @ historic Chateau Bellevue]
$50 per person (Chateau Bellevue has increased the cost of lunch)s
Preregistration is expected--send email to get your name on the attendance list
Zoom Registration deadline: Monday of the same week
Luncheon Registration deadline: Monday of the previous week
Registration Options:
• Check—payable to Art inSight, mail to: PO Box 5730, Austin TX 78763-5730
• VENMO—I'll send the identification
• ZELLE—my phone number
• CREDIT CARD—via PayPal link (below)
TOPICS and DATES -- One Important Woman at a Time
Jan 19-20 Michaelina Wautier, Rediscovered Baroque
Feb 16-17 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Enlightenment Portraiture
Mar 02-03* Betty Gold, Texas Sculptor in Steel
*Luncheon gathering at Neill-Cochran House Museum
Apr 13-14* Angelika Kauffmann, Académicienne
*Luncheon gathering at Neill-Cochran House Museum
May 04-05* Rosa Bonheur, Victorian Animalier
*Luncheon gathering at Neill-Cochran House Museum
June 15-16 Marguerite Zorach, American Fauve
July 13-14 Joan Mitchell, Poetic Abstract Expressionist
BASTILLE DAY--We will celebrate!
Aug 17-18 Elsie Driggs, Female Precisionist
Sept 07-08 Glenna Goodacre, American Sculptor
Oct 25-26* Jean Shin, Monumental Recycler NOTE: DATES ARE WED. + THURS.
*Luncheon gathering at Neill-Cochran House Museum
Nov 02-03 NEW DATES Shirin Neshat, Iranian-American LUNCH @ NCHM
Dec 07-08 Maya Lin, Monuments Woman
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| Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna |
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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
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: Austin and World Events 1885-1895
• Sunday, October 1st--"The Crash of 1893 and the Gilded Age"
Jeremi Suri, PhD
• Thursday, November 12th -- "In a Blaze of Glory: Austin's Moonlight Towers"
Jeffrey Kerr, author and filmmaker Jeffrey Kerr
Register for events at NCHM website: "Visit" page > Events
UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM) ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
David Deming and His Mentor
Works on loan juxtaposed with works by Charles Umlauf, including a recent gift, one of Umlauf's bronze angels
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ♦ www.cartermuseum.org
DAYTRIP: September 15, 2023
Come to Colorado (August 27, 2023 - January 7, 2024)
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (through September 3, 2023)100 works (AD 250-900) See links on the Kimbell website to 3 superb reviews
Bonnard's Worlds (November 5, 2023 - January 28, 2024)Comprising a careful selection of approximately 70 of Bonnard’s finest works, created over the course of his career, Bonnard’s Worlds will reunite some of the artist’s most celebrated works from museums in Europe and the United States, as well as many unfamiliar to the public from worldwide private collections.
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.orgPure Painting: Robert Motherwell (through September 17, 2023)the first presentation in more than a quarter century to fully examine the mastery of Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), a major figure who shaped postwar art. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is an especially fitting venue to mount this exhibition, given its institutional commitment to the artist’s work, holding over fifty works in a variety of media in its collection and hosting the final retrospective organized during Motherwell’s lifetime in 1991. Beginning with the abstracted-figurative works that dominated Motherwell’s first decade of painting as he emerged in the New York art world in the early 1940s, the exhibition highlights the subsequent key series that defined his oeuvre, including his central Elegy to the Spanish Republic series, which consists of over 100 canvases (1948-1967)PROPOSED DAYTRIP: September 2023
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
Dare to Wear: a spectacular display of designer cowgirl fashion
Annie Oakley: her story in artifacts and published news
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation (May 21 - September 17, 2023)
An outstanding collection, presented to examine the friendships artists developed in Paris as well as the many locations and sites—regional, national, and international—that shaped their work: Van Gogh and Gauguin; Soutine, Modigliani and Lipchitz; and Cézanne and the Avant-Garde; and a section devoted to Artists and Collectors. The Museum has produced a digital catalog of the exhibition.
Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection (October 15, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Watch for plans for A NEW YEAR'S DAYTRIP!
THE PEARL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS • www.pearlmfa.org
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creative Splendor: Japanese Bamboo Baskets from the Thoma Collection (through January 2, 2024)
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 meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
WOW: Chihuly at Biltmore 2024! SEE BELOW
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BIG ANNIVERSARIES/EVENTS in ART HISTORY in 2023:
• Vermeer exhibition, Rijksmuseum
• Tintoretto 500 | https://www.savevenice.org/project/tintoretto-500-campaign
• Joshua Reynolds 300 | see Plymouth and Saltram events below
article: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/25/joshua-reynolds-portrait-of-omai-
jointly-acquired-by-the-national-portrait-gallery-and-getty
• Van Gogh Museum turns 50 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmA2pJEync
• Centenary of the death of Sarah Bernhardt (immense Petit Palais exhibition)
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AMSTERDAMRijksmuseum • https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/enVan Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine (October 13, 2023 - January 14, 2024)
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 (new installation)
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 • www.mnac.cat/
BASEL
Kunstmuseum Basel • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Fondation Beyeler •
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/
Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck and Max Liebermann (June 23 - Ocrtober 22, 2023)
Gemäldegalerie •
Martin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.de
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
BILBAO • www.guggenheim-bilbao.esGuggenheim Museum Bilbao
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/
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Museum of Art • brooklynmuseum.org
BRUSSELS
Bozar -- must be there somewhere . . .
BURLINGTON VT Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.org
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum • http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
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
CLEVELAND Cleveland Museum of Art • https://www.clevelandart.org/Degas and the Laundress (October 8, 2023 - January 14, 2024)
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.nlEscher: Other World (through September 10, 2023)
Delftware WonderWare (ongoing)
Mauritshuis • https://www.mauritshuis.nl/
HELSINKI
Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
Crowning Glory: Millinery in Paris, 1880-1905 (through December 3, 2023)
Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, to be on loan and display 2025-2027
Rubens and Women (through January 28, 2024)
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace •
William Blake: Visionary (October 17, 2023 - January 14, 2024)
An exploration of the artist-poet’s imaginative world through his most celebrated works, now considered seminal in the era of Romanticism
Porcelain from Versailles: Vases for a King and Queen (through March 3, 2024)
The royal sets were among the finest produced at the Sèvres factory
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
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 • Whitworth Art Gallery
Albrecht Dürer's Material World (June 30, 2023 - March 10, 2024)
The famed holdings of the Whitworth gallery + artifacts from Dürer's Nuremberg
Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
NASHVILLE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts • fristcenter.org
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (through September17, 2023)
Exhibition of 175 items explores the careful studies of the natural world that became the foundation for Potter's charming, enduring illustrated stories; created by the Victoria & Albert Museum, will circulate to the High Museum (Atlanta) and the Morgan Library & Museum (New York). The family-friendly installationincludes special labels designed for children and cozy reading areas.
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
Gertrude Stein and Picasso: The Invention of a Language (September 13, 2023 - January 28, 2024)
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 •
Sarah Bernhardt: And the Woman Created the Star (April 14 - August 27, 2023)
To mark the centenary of her death, 400 objects, including paintings, posters, stage costumes and photographs will explore Bernhardt's life and times, casting her as the embodiment of fin-de-siécle Paris.
The Artist's Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia (June 10 - October 29, 2023)
One of the most famous works in American art history will return to Philadelphia, where it was first exhibited, then kept in Britain for 142 years; to be shown among other artists' depictions of their mothers
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.theboxReframing Reynolds: A Celebration (through October 29, 2023)
Exhibition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of England's famous portrait painter, the first president of the Royal Academy (founded 1768)
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
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/saltramReynolds 300: The Painter and the Painted (through October 31, 2023)
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
VIENNA
WASHINGTON, DC
Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]
Canova: Sketching in Clay (June 11 - October 9, 2023)
An unusual opportunity to see the "sketches" that precede marble sculpture in the work of the greatest sculptor (Antonio Canova, 1757-1822) in the neo-Classical age.
Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth (June 10 - October 15, 2023
Printed Renaissance (July 29 - October 22, 2023)
WOOSTER
Watercolors Unboxed (June 10 - September 10, 2023)
50 works, including highlights by Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition will also feature drawings by artists lesser known for their work in watercolor and gouache, including Amedeo Modigliani, Gustave Baumann, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Because watercolors are especially susceptible to damage from overexposure, Watercolors Unboxed is a rare opportunity to see some of the most prized works in the Museum’s collection, many of which have not been on display at the Museum since the 1980s.
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