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Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

California

BERKELEY Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology: "Tesoros Escondidos: Hidden Treasures from the Mexican Collections"; September 16 to June 26, 2005.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Visions of Grandeur: Drawing in the Baroque Age"; to September 12.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s"; to October 3. [??] "Luxury Textiles East and West: Opulent Interiors"; to January 30, 2005.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920"; to October 4.*

SAN FRANCISCO Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: "From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welsh Collection [Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts]"; September 17 to November 28.*

Legion of Honor: "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya"; September 4 to January 2, 2005.* [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "From Queen Anne to Arts and Crafts: Two Centuries of Change in American Furniture" by Brock Jobe; September 14. For information call 415-249-9234.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Changing Seasons: Coverlets from the Museum's Collection"; to October 17. [??] "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; to December 19.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Figural Art from the Bruce Museum Collection"; to November 14.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Ballets Russes to Balanchine: Dance at the Wadsworth Atheneum"; September 25 to January 2, 2005.* [??] "Childe Hassam and Connecticut Impressionism"; to October 3. [??] "Theater, Dance, and Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century"; to Winter 2005.

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NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt"; September 18 to December 12.*

NEW LONDON Lyman Allyn Art Museum: "American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Museum"; to October 24.*

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "A Haven for Painters: The Art Colony at Old Lyme"; to January 2, 2005. [??] '"A Pretty Fine Old Town': Childe Hassam in Old Lyme"; to September 26.

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Janvier Family Tree: Delaware Craft"; ongoing.*

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Bonnie Prince Charles and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688-1788: Works of Art from the Drambuie Collection [Edinburgh]"; September 4 to January 16, 2005.* [??] "Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance"; to September 26.*

District of Columbia

Freer Gallery of Art: "Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Painting"; to February 20, 2005.* [??] "Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court"; to June 26, 2005. [??] "Young Whistler: Early Prints and the 'French Set"'; to March 13, 2005.

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: "Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs"; to December 31.*

National Gallery of Art: "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection"; to October 10.* [??] "Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford"; to September 26.* [??] "Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum [London]"; to February 6, 2005.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art"; September 18 to March 20, 2005. [??] "Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain"; to October 17.

Textile Museum: "Floral Perspectives in Carpet Design"; to February 6, 2005. [??] "Over One, Under One, and Much More"; to January 2, 2005.

Florida

CORAL GABLES Lowe Art Museum: "The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers"; September 18 to November 14.*

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

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age"; to September 26.*

COLUMBUS Columbus Museum: "Our Young Nation: American Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Watson Collection"; September 19 to January 9, 2005.*

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Japanese Art from the Alsdorf Collection"; to September 12. [??] "Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte"; to September 19, 2004.* [??] "Unbuilt Chicago"; to January 16, 2005.

Field Museum: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; to September 12.*

Terra Museum of American Art: "Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New"; to October 31.*

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Bolton Brown"; September 22 to January 2, 2005. [??] "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to October 11.* [??] "Giovanni Bellini and the Art of Devotion"; September 11 to January 2, 2005.