Calendar

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 2005 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

California

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LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII"; to January 8, 2006. [??] "Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library [New York City]"; to January 8, 2006. [??] "Paper Art: Collecting Drawings in Holland, 1600-1800"; to November 20. [??] "Titian and the Commander: A Renaissance Artist and His Patron"; to February 5, 2006.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship"; to January 2, 2006.* [??] "Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885"; to January 16, 2006.*

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

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "Marsden Hartley: American Modern"; to January 29, 2006.*

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Domains of Wonder: Selected Master-works of Indian Painting"; to January 22, 2006.* [??] "Tastes in Asian Art"; to June 2006.

SAN FRANCISCO de Young Museum: Newly opened building [??] "Hatshepsut; From Queen to Pharaoh"; to February 5, 2006.*

Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "California Paintings of the Hudson River School and the Barbizon Period," by Alfred C. Harrison Jr., November 8. 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"; to December 31.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work"; to January 8, 2006.* [??] "Small Scales IV: Miniature Rooms and Houses"; to January 29, 2006.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art: "Dalf, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision"; to December 31. [??] "Old Masters/New Directions: A Decade of Collecting"; to January 15, 2006.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's 'Cottage Door'"; to December 31.* [??] "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.* [??] "Private Faces of Public People: 1750-1900"; through 2006.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographs of New England, 1885-1920"; to January 8, 2006.*

Delaware

WILMINGTON Bank One Center: 42nd Annual Delaware Antiques Show; November 11-13. Lecture. Loan exhibition: "Folk Art on High: From Functional Object to an Object of a Collector's Desire." For information call 800-443-3883.

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur"; to January 8, 2006.* [??] "Needles and Haystacks: Pastoral Imagery in American Needlework"; to July 24, 2006. [??] "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum [Massachusetts]"; to January 15, 2006.*

District of Columbia

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

Freer Gallery of Art: "Artists of Edo 1800-1850"; November 19 to May 29, 2006. [??] "Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty"; to September 17, 2006.

National Gallery of Art: "Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from 'The Birds of America"'; to April 16, 2006. [??] "Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum [Los Angeles]"; to January 2, 2006.* [??] "Monumental Sculpture in Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele"; to December 31. [??] "Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public"; to November 27.* [??] "Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life"; 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"; January 22, 2006.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Gold: The Asian Touch"; to February 19, 2006. [??] "Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey"; to January 22, 2006.*

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

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public"; to January 12, 2007.

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Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "From Sideboard to Pulpit: Silver in Georgia"; November 19 to March 26, 2006. [??] "Jan Matulka: 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.