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Magazine Antiques, March, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Alabama

BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Figuring the Feminine: Selected Works by African-American Women Artists"; to April 4. [??] "An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation"; to April 11.*

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920"; to March 14.* [??] "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; to April 11. [??] "Degas in Bronze"; to May 30.*

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "The Garden"; to July 3.

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Clay Bodies: Staffordshire Figurative Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Dornfeld"; to April 4.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market"; March 16 to June 13. [??] "Images in Light: Newly Acquired Stained Glass"; to April 4. [??] "Photographers of Genius at the Getty"; March 16 to July 25.* [??] "Window onto Spain: Drawings and Prints from Ribera and Goya"; to May 16.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes/Dance: Theater Costume in LACMA's Collection"; to April 4.

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SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "Early Wedgwood Ceramics"; to May 16. [??] "The Grandeur of Rome: Prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi"; to May 16.

SAN DIEGO Mingei International Museum: "George Nakashima Woodworker--A Retrospective"; to May 30.*

San Diego Museum of Art: "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape"; to April 18.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Art Deco: 1910-1939"; March 6 to July 4.*

North Point Gallery: "Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction"; to March 6.*

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design"; to April 4.* [??] "'The Noblest Conquest': The Sport of the Horse in Europe and America from the Edward Lasker Collection"; to May 16.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Frederic Remington: The Color of Night"; to March 14.* [??] "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; to December 19.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer"; to May 2.*

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Fashion and Fantasy: 1898-1908"; to March 7. [??] "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and 19th-Century Style"; ongoing.

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "Stagestruck in America: Artists, Entertainers, and Audiences, 1906-1956"; to August 15.

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to April 25. [??] Furniture Forum, "From Leather to Loose Covers: Perspectives on Upholstered Furniture in Fashionable American Interiors, 1660-1920"; March 4-6.* For information call 800-448-3883.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The Impressionist Tradition in America"; to April 30.

Federal Reserve Board: "The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)"; to April 2.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Birds and Beasts in Japanese Art"; to July 18. [??] "Guardians of the Law: Chinese Luohan Painting"; to May 23. [??] "Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"; to April 4.* [??] "The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot"; to July 18. [??] "Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891-1896"; to August 15.

National Gallery of Art: "Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence"; to March 21.*

Phillips Collection: "Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips"; to May 16.*

Textile Museum: "Draped, Wrapped, & Folded: Untailored Clothing"; to June 6.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries"; March 20 to August 8.*

Florida

NAPLES Trinity-by-the-Cove Episcopal Church: Naples Antiques Show and Sale; March 11-13. Lecture. Loan exhibition: "Majolica Ware from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson." For information call 410-961-5121.

WEST PALM BEACH Eaton Fine Art: "William Aiken Walker in Florida"; to March 20.*

Norton Museum of Art: "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley"; to April 4.*

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

Georgia

COLUMBUS Columbus Museum: "Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950"; to April 11.*

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "The James VanDerZee Studio"; to April 25.* [??] "On Paper: New Acquisitions of American Art"; to May 16. [??] "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher"; to May 9.*

Field Museum: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; March 12 to September 12.* [??] Newly renovated Hall of Jade opens March 12.

Galleries Maurice Sternberg: "Exhibition of Important 19th and Early 20th Century American Paintings"; to March 30.*