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Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2002 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "Micro Painting: The Portrait Miniature"; to December 22. *

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "French Drawings in the Age of Greuze"; September 10 to December 1. # "Greuze the Draftsman"; September 10 to December 1. * # "Greuze the Painter: Los Angeles Works in Context"; September 10 to December 1. # "Gustav Le Gray, Photographer"; to September 29. *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections"; to October 6. *

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [Washington, D. C.]"; to October 6. * # "The London Observer: Engravings by William Hogarth"; to September 22.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Idol of the Modems: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting"; to September 15. *

SAN FRANCISCO California Palace of the Legion of Honor: "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum"; to November 11. * # American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "America's Earliest Garden Rooms: Painted Furniture Inside and Out," by Wendy A. Cooper, September 10. For information call 415-249-9234.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: "Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll"; to November l0. *

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "William Morris: Creating the Useful and the Beautiful"; to September 22. # "George Romney, 1734-1802: British Art's Forgotten Genius"; September 15 to December 1. *

SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Museum of Art: "Edward Hopper and Urban Realism"; to September 15.

SANTA MONICA Santa Monica Airport: Los Angeles Art Show, October 3-6. For information call 800-656-9278.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Art of the Tang Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; to December 7, 2003. # "Sunken Treasures: Ming Dynasty Ceramics from a Chinese Shipwreck"; to October 27.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science: "Celebrating 90 Years: The Bruce Museum Art Collection"; to October 14. # "The Floral Art of Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840)"; to November 3. *

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Cloth of Kings"; September 9 to February 9, 2003.

LITCHFIELD Litchfield Historical Society: "Inspiring Fashion: Litchfield's Costumes in Context, 1770-1930"; to December 1. *

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "The American Artist in Connecticut: The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection"; to June 22, 2003. *

Delaware

WINTERIHUR Winterthur Museum: "Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York"; to September 13. *

District of Columbia

Freer Gallery of Art: "The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics"; to October 27. * # "Whistler's Nudes"; to January 5, 2003. *

National Gallery of Art: "An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum"; to October 6. * # "Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette"; to September 22. * # "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt"; to October 14. *

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "The Adventures of Hamza"; to September 29.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History: "July 1942: United We Stand"; to October 27.

Textile Museum: "The Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets"; September 13 to February 16, 2003. * # "Secrets of Silk"; to January 5, 2003.

Tudor Place Historic House and Garden: "Asian Arts at Tudor Place: An American Passion to Collect"; to December 31. *

Florida

OCALA Appleton Museum of Art: "Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen [Rotterdam, the Netherlands]"; September 13 to November 10. *

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Art Nouveau in Europe and America: From the Morse Collection"; to January 5, 2003.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Bunzlauer Style: German Pottery from Jugendstil to Art Deco"; to October 6. # "Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London"; to September 29. *

ATLANTA Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University: New galleries of ancient American art; opening September 13. *

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Fukusa and Furoshiki: Splendid Japanese Gift Covers and Wrapping Cloths"; to November 17. # "German Art and the Past: Prints and Drawings from Friedrich to Baselitz"; to September 22.* # "Helmut Jacoby: Master of Architectural Drawings"; to October 27. *

Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, James R. Thompson Center: "Illinois Amish Quilts: Sharing Threads of Tradition"; to September 20. *

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: "Nature, Myth, Allegory: Imagining Reality in the Nineteenth Century"; to October 6.

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "American Furniture from the Collection, 1740-1870"; to September 15. # "The Print in the North--The Age of Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden"; September 7 to February 23. * # Restored Oldfields--Lilly House and Gardens; opened.