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Magazine Antiques, April, 2006 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Alabama

BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas"; to May 14.*

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California

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Art & Tradition: Design at Wedgwood in the Twentieth Century"; to August 6.* [??] "Greene & Greene in Long Beach: Furniture for the Homes of Jennie A. Reeve and Adelaide Tichenor"; to October 31.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Carmontelle's Transparency: An 18th Century Motion Picture"; to June 18. [??] "Courbet and the Modern Landscape"; to May 14.* [??] "Degas at the Getty"; to June 11.

Norton Simon Museum: "Telling Tales"; to April 17.

MALIBU Getty Villa: Newly opened site for J. Paul Getty Museum's antiquities [??] "Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites"; to May 1.* [??] "Getty Villa Reimagined"; to May 8. [??] "Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity"; to July 24.

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907"; to May 21.* [??] "Waiting for Van Gogh: Dutch Paintings from the 19th Century"; April 1 to July 2.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Goya's Portraits"; April 8 to June 18. [??] "Tastes in Asian Art"; to June 30.

SAN FRANCISCO de Young Museum: "International Arts and Crafts: William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright"; to June 18*.

Legion of Honor: "After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire"; to June 4.* [??] "Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne"; to June 4. [??] "Politics and Wit: The Comic Genius of Andre Gill"; to April 30. [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "The Art of the Garden, Indoors," by Peter Brown, April 18. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door"; to May 14.*

SANTA MONICA Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport: Los Angeles Antiques Show; April 28-30.* Lectures. Loan exhibition: "Historically Important Chairs from Private Collections." For information call 310-455-2886.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Ben Franklin's Curious Mind"; to April 23.*

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "American Art, 1800-1950"; to December 31. [??] "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and Nineteenth-Century Style"; to December 31. [??] "Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation"; to April 30.*

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Mr. Whatman's Mill: Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain"; to June 4.*

Yale University Art Gallery: "Private Faces of Public People: 1750-1900"; through 2006.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "Finding Religion: American Art from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection"; to May 28.

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Needles and Haystacks: Pastoral Imagery in American Needlework"; to July 24. [??] "Time for Tea! Selections of Teaware from the Winterthur Collection"; to July 10.

District of Columbia

Dumbarton House, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: "From East to West: 'Quaker Farmer' Chinese Export Porcelain in America"; to October 28.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Artists of Edo 1800-1850"; to May 29. [??] "Freer and Tea: 100 Years of the Book of Tea"; to May 29. [??] "Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty"; to September 17.

National Gallery of Art: "Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris"; to May 21.* [??] "Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from 'The Birds of America'"; to April 16. [??] "Cezanne in Provence"; to May 7.* [??] "Dada"; to May 14.*

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of 'American Gothic'"; to July 16.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Hokusai"; to May 14.

Textile Museum: "Harpies, Mermaids and Tulips: Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region"; to September 3.* [??] "Seldom Seen: Director's Choice from the Museum's Collections"; to July 30.

Florida

PALM BEACH Henry Morrison Flagler Museum: "Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition"; to April 16.*

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public"; to January 12, 2007. [??] "Secrets of Tiffany Glassmaking"; to September 2, 2007. [??] "Windows and Wonders: Tiffany from the Morse Vaults"; to September 2, 2007.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "Artists of Prominence from the Permanent Collection"; to April 16. [??] "Ten Years of Acquisitions, 1996-2006"; to June 4.

ATLANTA High Museum: "On the Side of Freedom: Jo Davidson and the Spanish Civil War"; to April 16. [??] Newly opened museum building.

COLUMBUS Columbus Museum: Columbus Museum Art and Antique Show; April 20-23. Lectures.

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Girodet: Romantic Rebel"; to April 30.*