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Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2005 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny"; February 6 to May 8. *

California

BERKELEY Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology: "Tesoros Escondidos: Hidden Treasures from the Mexican Collections"; to June 26.

ESCONDIDO Mingei International Museum North County Satellite: "The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture"; to February 13. *

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LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Drawn to Rome: French Neoclassical Sketchbooks and Prints"; February 1 to April 24. [??] "Images of Violence in the Medieval World"; to March 13. [??] "Imagining the Orient"; to April 3. [??] "Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile"; to April 24. * [??] "A Revolutionary Age: Drawing in Europe, 1770-1820"; to May 1.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World, 1880-1920"; to April 3. *

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musee Fabre, Montpellier [France]"; to April 3. * [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Duncan Phyfe: Legendary Cabinetmaker," by Peter Kenny; February 8. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "An Eye for Beauty: Collectors and the History of British Watercolor"; February 12 to May 15.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; through 2005.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "China Trade in New England: A Connecticut Sea Captain's Journey"; to March 6.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Intimate Visions: Small-scale European Paintings of the 15th to 19th Centuries"; to September 11. [??] "Theater, Dance, and Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century"; to April 10.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850"; to April 24. * [??] "William Hodges, 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration"; to April 24. *

Yale University Art Gallery: "Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design during the Great Depression"; to June 5 *

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Edward Redfield: Delaware Native, Pennsylvania Impressionist"; to April 26.

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur"; February 26 to May 15. [??] Seminar: "Yankee Cabinetmakers: New Scholarship on Old Furniture"; March 3-5. For information call 800-448-3883.

District of Columbia

DAR Museum: "Home and Country: American Quilts and Samplers in the DAR Museum"; to April 30. *

Freer Gallery of Art: "Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Painting"; to February 20. * [??] "Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court"; to June 26. [??] "Young Whistler: Early Prints and the 'French Set'"; to March 13.

National Gallery of Art: "Fauve Painting in the Permanent Collection"; to May 30. [??] "Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits"; to May 1. * [??] "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions"; to May 30.

National Museum of Women in the Arts: "Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle"; to May 8. * [??] "Pueblo Pottery: A Living Tradition"; to May 15.

Phillips Collection: "Modigliani: Beyond the Myth"; February 26 to May 29. *

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art"; to March 20. [??] "Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation"; to April 24. *

Textile Museum: "Beyond the Bag: Textiles as Containers"; to June 5. [??] "A Garden of Shawls: The Buta and Its Seeds"; to March 6.

Florida

MIAMI Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum: "Evolution/Revolution: A Century of Modern Seating"; to June 5.

SAINT PETERSBURG Museum of Fine Arts: "Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914"; to April 24. *

WEST PALM BEACH Eaton Fine Art: "Martin Johnson Heade: Select Drawings"; to February 13.

Norton Museum of Art: "In the American Grain: The Stieglitz Circle at the Phillips Collection"; February 19 to May 8. * [??] "Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819"; February 2 to May 1. *

Palm Beach County Convention Center: Palm Beach! America's International Fine Art and Antiques Fair; February 4-13. * For information call 561-209-1338. [??] Palm Beach Jewelry and Antique Show; February 18-22. For information call 561-822-5440.

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Art Gallery Window from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall"; ongoing. [??] "Carnival Glass from the Morse Collection"; to September 25. [??] "Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public"; February 8 to January 12, 2007.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Beauty and the Beast: Animals on Paper"; to March 20. [??] "High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime"; to March 20. * [??] "Selections from the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art"; to March 20. [??] "Shaping a Collection: Recent Decorative Arts Acquisitions"; to March 20.