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Magazine Antiques, August, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures

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California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance"; to September 5.* * "Fit for a King: Courtly Manuscripts, 1380-1450"; to August 29. * "Visions of Grandeur: Drawing in the Baroque Age"; to September 12.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s"; to October 3. * "Luxury Textiles East and West: Opulent Interiors"; August 5 to January 30, 2005.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920"; to October 4.* * "Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes"; to September 6.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Procured of the Best and Most Fashionable Materials: The Furnishings of the Lloyd Family of Maryland, 1750-1850" by Alexandra Kirtley; August 10. For information call 415-249-9234.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Changing Seasons: Coverlets from the Museum's Collection"; to October 17. * "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; to December 19.

Connecticut

COS COB Bush-Holley Historic Site: "Childe Hassam: Impressions of Cos Cob"; to September 5.*

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Figural Art from the Bruce Museum Collection"; to November 14.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Childe Hassam and Connecticut Impressionism"; to October 3. * "Theater, Dance, and Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century"; to Winter 2005.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "The Art of James Ward at the Yale Center for British Art"; to August 22.*

Yale University Art Gallery: "American Miniatures of Children 1770-1950"; to November 30.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "A Haven for Painters: The Art Colony at Old Lyme"; to January 2, 2005. * "'A Pretty Fine Old Town': Childe Hassam in Old Lyme"; to September 26.

WINDSOR Windsor Historical Society: "The Woodworkers of Windsor: A Community of Craftsmen, 1635-1715"; to August 14.*

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Janvier Family Tree: Delaware Craft"; ongoing.*

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance"; to September 26.*

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "Norman Rock-well's Four Freedoms: Paintings That Inspired a Nation"; to September 6.*

Freer Gallery of Art: "Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Painting"; August 14 to February 20, 2005. * "Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891-1896"; to August 15. * "Young Whistler: Early Prints and the 'French Set'"; to March 13, 2005.

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: "Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs"; to December 31.*

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National Gallery of Art: "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection"; to October 10.* * "Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford"; to September 26.* * "Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum [London]"; to February 6, 2005.*

Phillips Collection: "August Sander: Photographs of the German Landscape"; to September 5.* * "Revelation: Georges Rouault at Work"; to September 5.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain"; to October 17.*

Textile Museum: "Floral Perspectives in Carpet Design"; August 27 to February 6, 2005. * "Over One, Under One, and Much More"; to January 2, 2005.

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Sculpting Nature: The Favrile Pottery of L. C. Tiffany"; to January 9, 2005.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art: "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age"; to September 26.*

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Japanese Art from the Alsdorf Collection"; to September 12. * "Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte"; to September 19, 2004.* * "Unbuilt Chicago"; to January 16, 2005.

Field Museum: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; to September 12.*

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: "The Uses of Art in Renaissance Italy"; to August 22.

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to October 11.*

Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: "Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave"; to August 25.

DECORAH Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum: "First Flowering: Rosemaling by Early Masters"; to April 17, 2005.

SIOUX CITY Sioux City Art Center: "Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State"; August

13 to October 10.*

Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Museum of Art: "The Collector's Eye: The Louis S. Harris Collection"; to September 12.

Maine

BAR HARBOR College of the Atlantic: "A Place to Take Root: The History of Flower Pots and Garden Containers in America"; August 15 to September 11.