Calendar: the arts here and abroad—a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2003 by Kathleen Luhrs

Alabama

MONTGOMERY Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: "Nostalgic Journey: American Illustrations from the Delaware Art Museum [Wilmington]"; September 6 to December 7. *

Alaska

JUNEAU Alaska State Museum: "Case and Draper Photographs, 1898-1920"; to November 8. ** "Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People"; to October 4. *

Arizona

TUCSON Tucson Museum of Art: "Painted Devotions: Retablos from the TMA Collection"; to February 8, 2004.

California

FRESNO Fresno Metropolitan Museum: "Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State"; September 26 to December 14. *

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection"; to September 14. *

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "The Making of a Medieval Book"; to September 28. *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse"; to September 28. * ** "Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow"; to October 13."

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures"; to September 28. ** "Tradition and Innovation in European Modernist Drawings and Watercolors"; to December 14.

SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: "Marc Chagall"; to November 4. *

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Mr. Huntington's Ranch, 1903-2003: A Century of Transformation"; to January 4, 2004.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Lighter Than Air: Gauze Robes from China"; to November 30. ** "Sargent and Italy"; to September 21. * ** "Secrets from a Chinese Garden"; to September 28. ** "20th Century Design: Breaking All the Rules"; to December 31.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Avian Amulets: Bird Imagery and Symbolism of Native Americans"; to October 19.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Hooking: Folk Art to Fiber Art"; to October 5. ** "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and 19th-Century Style"; ongoing. ** "Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America"; to October 19."

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "Curule: Ancient Design in American Federal Furniture"; to January 4, 2004." Symposium: "Classical Furniture in America, 1800-1840." September 19 to 21. For information call 203-432-0632.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "Earth, River, and Light: Masterworks of Pennsylvania Impressionism"; to September 28. *

WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum: "Picture Perfect: Images of Northwest Connecticut"; to September 18. *

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The Impressionist Tradition in America"; to April 2004.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Tales and Legends in Japanese Art"; to January 4, 2004. ** "Tea Utensils Under Wraps"; to January 4, 2004. ** "Whistler's Greatest Etchings: The 1889 Amsterdam Set"; to February 1, 2004.

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

National Gallery of Art: "Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte"; to September 28. *

National Museum of African Art: "The Fabric of Moroccan Life"; to September 22. *

Textile Museum: "Navajo Blankets of the 19th Century: Selections from The Textile Museum Collections"; September 5 to February 29, 2004. *

Florida

SARASOTA John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: "Rosa Bonheur to Marcel Duchamp: Highlights from the Ringling's Collection of 19th and Early 20th Century Art"; to October 5.

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "The Illuminated Vision: Tiffany Lamps and Lighting"; to January 4, 2004.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: '"Leaves have their time to fall ...': Reflections of Mourning in Nineteenth-Century Decorative Arts"; to September 14.

ATLANTA Atlanta History Center: "Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business"; to September 21. *

SAVANNAH Telfair Museum of Art: "Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art"; September 10 to December 31.

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific--The Edward McCormick Blair Collection"; September 6 to January 11, 2004. ** "A Velazquez from the Prado"; to September 25. ** "Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890 1940"; to October 13. * ** "Yokohama-e: 19th-Century Prints of Americans in Japan"; to October 14.

Term Museum of American Art: "Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp and the New York Avant-Garde"; to November 30. * ** "The Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America"; to September 21. * ** "A Rich Simplicity: Folk Art from the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection"; to September 21. ** "Studied Abroad: Painted Impressions from the Collection"; September 6 to January 11, 2004.

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Herron School of Art Centennial: Students and Teachers, 1902 1950"; to December 31. ** "The Lay of the Land"; to September 28.

Kentucky

LEXINGTON Headley-Whitney Museum: "Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688-1788: Works of Art from the Drambuie Collection [Edinburgh]"; to September 28. *

 

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