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Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2005 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; to September 25.*

California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Paper Art: Collecting Drawings in Holland, 1600-1800"; September 6 to November 20. [??] "Shrine and Shroud: Textiles in Illuminated Manuscripts"; to October 2.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape"; to September 18.* [??] "Japan Goes to the World's Fairs: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions"; to October 10.*

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A. R. Valentien"; to December 4.*

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "White Gold: The Kathy and Ron Gillmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain"; ongoing.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe"; to September 11.* [??] "Tastes in Asian Art"; to November 6.

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Golden Gate Park: Gallery of Victorian Style, Culture and Custom," by Christopher Pollock, September 13. For information call 415-249-9234.

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; through 2005.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work"; September 24 to January 8, 2006. [??] "The Sight of Music: Prints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams"; to September 25.

HARTFORD Connecticut Historical Society Museum: "Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800"; to October 30.*

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "The Worlds of Francis Wheatley"; to December 31.

Yale University Art Gallery: "Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of Past and Present"; to December 30.*

Delaware

WILMINGTON Delaware Art Museum: New galleries and sculpture park, recently opened. [??] "Consuming Desires: Turn-of-the-Century Posters and the Rise of Modern Marketing"; to October 2.

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur"; September 10 to January 8, 2006.* [??] "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum [Massachusetts]"; September 10 to January 15, 2006.*

District of Columbia

Folger Shakespeare Library: "Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680"; September 15 to December 31.*

Freer Gallery of Art: "Games, Contests, and Artful Play in Japan"; to October 23. [??] "Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei"; to October 23.

National Gallery of Art: "Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from 'The Birds of America'"; September 25 to April 16, 2006. [??] "Masterpieces in Minature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum [Los Angeles]"; September 25 to January 2, 2006.* [??] "Monumental Sculpture in Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele"; September 18 to December 31. [??] "Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public"; September 4 to November 27.* [??] "Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life"; September 18 to December 31.* [??] "Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art"; to February 20, 2006.

Octagon Museum: "The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry, and the Architecture of Washington, D.C."; to December 31.

Renwick Gallery: "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design"; September 16 to January 22, 2006. [??] "Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"; to October 23.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade"; to September 11. [??] "Gold--The Asian Touch"; September 10 to February 19, 2006.

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Textile Museum: "Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles"; to January 15, 2006. [??] "Silk & Leather: Splendid Attire of 19th-Century Central Asia"; September 2 to February 26, 2006.*

Florida

GAINESVILLE Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida: "Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmarte"; to October 30.

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Carnival Glass from the Morse Collection"; to September 25. [??] "Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public"; to January 12, 2007.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Jan Matulka: The Global Modernist"; to November 27.* [??] "Sacred Art, Secular Content: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C."; to November 6.

ATLANTA Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University: "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London"; to November 27.

SAVANNAH Telfair Museum of Art: "Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe"; September 28 to November 27.*

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era"; to January 8, 2006.* [??] "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre"; to October 10.*