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Magazine Antiques, Nov, 2003 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; November 15 to April 11, 2004.

California

FRESNO Fresno Metropolitan Museum: "Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State"; to December 14.*

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Clay Bodies: Staffordshire Figurative Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Dornfeld"; to April 4, 2004.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment"; November 4 to January 25, 2004.* "Transforming Tradition: Ancient Motifs in Medieval Manuscripts"; to November 30.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art"; to January 4, 2004.*

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Tradition and Innovation in European Modernist Drawings and Watercolors"; to December 14.

Timken Museum of Art: "Portraiture in Paris around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David"; to February 15, 2004.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Degas Sculptures"; to January 18, 2004.* "Reverie and Reality: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection"; to March 7, 2004.* American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Perfection of Form and Condition: Masterpiece Clocks in the Marketplace," by Robert C. Cheney; November 11. For information call 415-249-9234.

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SAN MARINO Huntington Library. Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design"; November 8 to April 4, 2004. "Mr. Huntington's Ranch, 1903-2003: A Century of Transformation"; to January 4, 2004. New York University Conference: "Silver of and from the West"; November 7-9. For information call 212-998-7171.

SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Museum of Art: "Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration"; November 1 to January 19, 2004. "Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits"; November 22 to February 15, 2004.*

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection [Washington, D.C.]"; to January 4, 2004. "Lighter Than Air: Gauze Robes from China"; to November 30.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Contacting Pablo Picasso: The Influence of Picasso on American Printmakers"; to November 23. "The Jewels of Louis Comfort Tiffany"; November 1 to February 4, 2004.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Fashion and Fantasy: 1898-1908"; November 11 to March 7, 2004. "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and 19th-Century Style"; ongoing. "Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art"; to December 14.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Company Culture: British Artists and the East India Company, 1770-1830"; to January 11, 2004.

Yale University Art Gallery: "Curule: Ancient Design in American Federal Furniture"; to January 4, 2004.*

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Featuring the Rockefeller Collection"; to February 1, 2004.* "Naive Charm: English Pottery Figures from the Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Norton Bernard Collection"; to January 11, 2004.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The Impressionist Tradition in America"; to April 2004.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"; November 20 to April 4, 2004.* "Tales and Legends in Japanese Art"; to January 4, 2004. "Tea Utensils Under Wraps"; to January 4, 2004. "Whistler's Greatest Etchings: The 1889 Amsterdam Set"; to February 1, 2004.

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: "The Myths of St. Petersburg: Impressions of the City from the Hillwood Collection"; to December 31.*

National Gallery of Art: "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting"; to January 11, 2004. "The Art of Romare Bearden"; to January 4, 2004. "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"; to February 16, 2004. "Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier"; to January 18, 2004.

Phillips Collection: "Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [Hartford, Connecticut]"; to January 18, 2004.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure"; to January 11, 2004.*

Textile Museum: "African-American Quilts from the Robert & Helen Cargo Collection"; to February 29, 2004.* "Navajo Blankets of the 19th Century: Selections from The Textile Museum Collections"; to February 29, 2004.*

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "The Illuminated Vision: Tiffany Lamps and Lighting"; to December 2004.

Georgia

ATLANTA High Museum of Art: "Verrochio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence"; November 15 to February 8, 2004.*

SAVANNAH Telfair Museum of Art: "Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art"; to December 31.