Calendar

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

California

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century"; to November 26.*

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LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Casting Nature: Francois-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent"; to March 25, 2007. [??] "From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden"; to April 29, 2007.* [??] "Gospels in Medieval Manuscript Illumination"; to January 7. [??] "Guercino: Mind to Paper"; to January 21, 2007. [??] "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai"; November 14 to March 4, 2007.*

MALIBU Getty Villa: "Enduring Myth: The Tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra"; to December 4.

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews"; to March 25, 2007.*

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Museums Collection"; to December 31. [??] "Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego"; to January 7, 2007.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Claude Lorrain: The Painter as Draftsman"; to January 14, 2007.* [??] "Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart Works on Paper, 1940-1992.* [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Building Newport Furniture Today: Carving and Construction by a Modern Master," by Alan Breed, November 14. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Chrysanthemums on the Eastern Hedge: Gardens and Plants in Chinese Art"; to January 7, 2007. [??] "Treasures from Olana [Hudson, New York]: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church"; to January 3, 2007.*

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: New building opened.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712)"; to January 10,2007.*

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "American Splendor: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum"; to December 31. [??] "Crewel World"; to February 25, 2007. [??] "Eloquent Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and Nineteenth-Century Style"; to December 31. [??] "Samuel Colt: Arms, Arts, and Invention"; to March 4, 2007.*

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900"; to December 31. [??] "Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad 1746-1755"; to December 31.*

Yale University Art Gallery: "To Know the Dark: American Artists' Visions of Night"; to January 14. [??] "Private Faces of Public People: 1750-1900"; through 2006.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "A Collective Endeavor: Three Decades of Acquisitions"; to March 26, 2007. [??] Newly restored Florence Griswold House reopened.

Delaware

GREENVILLE Somerville Manning Gallery: "N. C. Wyeth and Artists of the Brandywine School"; to November 11.

WILMINGTON Chase Center on the Riverfront: 43rd Annual Delaware Antiques Show; November 10-12. Loan exhibition: "Peace, Plenty, and Independence." For information call 800-448-3883.

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District of Columbia

Federal Reserve Board: "Howard Pyle and Illustrators of the Brandywine School from the Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia"; to March 30,2007.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Beyond Brushwork: Symbolism in Chinese Painting"; to November 26.

National Gallery of Art: "Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856-1909)"; to January 28, 2007. [??] "The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain"; November 19 to March 18, 2007. [??] "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings"; to December 31.* "Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych"; November 12 to February 4, 2007.* [??] "Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings"; November 19 to March 18, 2007.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000"; to January 7, 2007.*

Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination"; November 17 to Feburary 19, 2007.

Textile Museum: "Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong"; to February 25.* [??] "Pieces of a Puzzle: Classical Persian Carpet Fragments"; to January 7, 2007.

Florida

ORLANDO Mennello Museum of American Art: "Cassatt to Wyeth: American Masterworks from the Mitchell Museum [Mount Vernon, Illinois]"; November 3 to February 25, 2007.

SARASOTA John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: "Encore! The Art of the Historic Asolo Theater"; to January 7, 2007. [??] "Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery [New Haven, Connecticut]"; to January 7, 2007.*