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Magazine Antiques, March, 2003 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Alabama

BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: Sacred Treasure: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections"; to April 13. *

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka"; to May 11 . * # "Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in The Phillips Collection [Washington, D. C.]"; to May 4. *

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum, University of California: "A Brush with Truth: Early Buddhist Ink Paintings from Japan and China"; to June 30. # "Painted Tales from India"; to June 30.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Five Hundred Years of Manuscript Illumination"; to June 1. # "Prehistoric Arts of the Eastern Meditenanean"; to May 4.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Ballets Russes and Erte: Theater Costume in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art"; to April 11, 2004. # "Luxury Textiles East and West: Ceremony and Celebration"; to July 20. # "Sargent and Italy"; to May 9. *

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "Hiroko Ham and Shigeharu Takahashi Collection of Asian Trade Ceramics"; to May 25.

SAN DIEGO Mingei International Museum: "Maestros de Plata: "William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance"; to May 11. * # "Silver and Silk--Textiles and Jewelry of Guizhou, China"; to March 16. *

San Diego Museum of Art. "Painting Women: Fragonard to Bouguereau"; to April 27.

SAN FRANCISCO California Palace of the Legion of Honor: "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland"; March 8 to May 18. *

Jackson Square Promenade: Jackson Square Art and Antiques Dealers Association; March 27-29. * Lectures. For information call 415-835-2455.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: "A Passion for Paul Klee: The Djerassi Collection at SFMOMA"; March 1 to June 8. * # "Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA"; to June 24.

Sandra Whitman: "Glorious Geometrics: 500 Years of Abstract Carpet and Textile Design"; March 10-22.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Gloriana! The Golden Legend of Elizabeth I"; to June 15. *

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Fabulous Floral Fabrics"; to May 4. # "20th Century Design: Breaking All the Rules"; to December 31.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science: "Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, 20th Century and Contemporary Art"; to April 13. *

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Marsden Hartley"; to April 13. *

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions"; to March 30. # "Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London"; to March 30. *

Yale University Art Gallery: "Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge"; to May 18. * # "Homer to Hopper: Masters of American Watercolor"; to June 8. * # "The Once and Future Art Gallery: Renewing Yale's Oldest Museum"; to May 18. *

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

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' Decorative Arts of the Antislavery Movement"; to March 30. # "Samuel Gragg and His Incredible Elastic Chairs"; March 6 to June 15.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art "Whistler and His Circle in Venice"; to May 5. *

DAR Museum: "Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Service in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783"; to August 2.

Folger Shakespeare Library "Elizabeth I, Then and Now"; March 21 to August 2. *

Freer Gallery of Art: "The Floating World Revealed--Ukiyo-e Paintings and Prints"; to May 26. # "Palaces and Pavilions: Grand Architecture in Chinese Painting"; to March 30. # "Whistler in Venice: The Pastels"; to June 15.

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: "The Myths of St. Petersburg: Impressions of the City from the Hillwood Collection"; to December 31 . *

National Building Museum: "Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America"; to September 21.

National Gallery of Art: Edouard Vaillard"; to April 20. * # "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 1880-1938"; March 2 to June l.* # "Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788"; to May 11. *

Octagon: "Laying the Foundation for Liberty The Statue of Liberty's Pedestal"; to June 1.

Phillips Collection: "Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936"; to May l1. *

Renwick Gallery "Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright"; March 14 to July 20. *

Textile Museum: "Hold It Textiles as Containers"; to June 8.

Florida

GAINESVILLE Samuel R Ham Museum of Art, University of Florida: "Drawing in Renaissance and Baroque Siena: 16th and 17th Century Drawings from Sienese Collections"; to April 20. *

WEST PALM BEACH Norton Museum of Art: "Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion"; to April 27. * # New Southwest Wing opening March 8.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South 1862-1999"; to March 23.

ATLANTA High Museum of Art: "Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musee d'Orsay [Paris]"; to March 16. *