Calendar

Magazine Antiques, April, 2005 by Kathleen Luhrs

CHADDS FORD Brandywine River Museum: "Animals in the Gallery"; May 22. [??] "Over and Under: Reworked and Reused Paintings by N.C. Wyeth"; to May 8.

PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia: "Intersections: Scriptures, Prints, and Paintings in Antebellum America"; to July 22.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: "In Full View: American Painting and Sculpture (1720-2005)"; to April 10.* [??] Sculpture study center and Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building; recently opened.

Philadelphia Museum of Art: "Quack, Quack, Quack: Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, and Books"; to June 26.* [??] "Salvador Dali"; to May 15.* [??] "The Silver Garden"; to July 17. [??] "Stuart Davis and American Abstraction: A Master-piece in Focus"; to April 17.*

Thirty-third Street Armory: Philadelphia Antiques Show; April 9-12.* Loan exhibition: "Vaulting Ambition: Gothic Revival in Philadelphia, 1830-1860." For information call 215-387-3500.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur"; to May 28.*

PITTSBURGH: Frick Art and Historical Center: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920"; April 16 to June 12.*

Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE Rhode Island School of Design Museum: "The Splendid Sari"; to May 29.

South Carolina

COLUMBIA Columbia Museum of Art: "American Women: A Selection from the National Portrait Gallery [Washington, D.C.]"; April 29 to July 10.* [??] "Victorian Visions"; to April 10.*

Tennessee

NASHVILLE Frist Center for the Visual Arts: "American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum [New York City]"; to May 1.*

Texas

CANYON Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum: "Lace and Linen in a Land of Iron and Dust"; to July 10. [??] "Ranching and Rococo: The Lucille Nance Jones Collection"; to November 24.

DALLAS Dallas Museum of Art: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; to May 29.*

FORT WORTH Amon Carter Museum: "First Sight: Artist-Explorers of the American West"; to April 24. [??] "Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth-Century American Color-Plate Books"; to May 8.*

Kimbell Art Museum: "Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum [London]"; April 3 to September 4.*

HOUSTON Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: "Greek Bronze Vessels from the Collection of Shelby White and Leon Levy"; to July 31. [??] "From Myth to Life: Images of Women from the Classical World"; to July 31. [??] "A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825: Prints from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation"; to May 22.* [??] "Raphael's La Fornarina"; to April 17.*

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Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE University of Virginia Art Museum: "Mantenga to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Musee des beaux-arts et d'archeologie [Besancon, France]"; April 9 to June 5.*

NORFOLK Chrysler Museum of Art: "The Decorated Strads"; April 22 to May 22. [??] "Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children"; to May 22.*

RICHMOND Virginia Historical Society: "Virginia's Colonial Dynasties"; to November 27.