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Magazine Antiques, June, 2003 by Kathleen Luhrs

Vermont

SHELBURNE Shelburne Museum: "Art of the Needle: 100 Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelbume Museum"; to October 26. *

Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE Monticello: "Framing the West at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition"; to December 31.

NORFOLK Chrysler Museum of Art "Power & Whimsy: A Private Collection of American Modernism"; to September 7.

RICHMOND Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums: "Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection [Hudson Museum. University of Maine, Orono]"; to August 3. # "Vessels and Ritual Objects: Pre-Columbian Ceramics from the Permanent Collection"; to June 22.

Virginia Historical Society: "Early Images of Virginia Indians: The William W Cole Collection"; to October 5. # "Silver in Virginia"; ongoing.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: "Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum [Salem, Massachusetts]"; to July 20.*

WILLIAMSBURG Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg: "Made in America: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl"; to September 1. *

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg: "Different by Design: Furniture Styles in Early America"; to September 6, 2004. 4 "Jewelry: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection"; to December 31. # "The Language of Clothing"; to February 16, 2004.* # "Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg"; to February 5, 2005.*

Washington

SEATTLE Seattle Art Museum: "An American Sampler"; to July 1, 2004. # "George Washington: A National Treasure"; to July 20.*

Seattle Asian Art Museum: "An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection"; to June 15.

Canada

OTTAWA National Gallery of Canada: "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting"; June 6 to September 7* # "Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada"; to August 31.

TORONTO Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art "Capital Ventures: The Founding of the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory, 1751-1783"; to August 19. Royal Ontario Museum: "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum [London]": to June 6, 2004. *

China

HONG KONG University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong: "Picturing Cathay: Maritime and Cultural Images of the China Trade"; to June 22. *

France

MARTINVILLE Musee des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Chateau de Martainville: "Mosaics of Cloth: In Search of the Hexagon"; to October 26, 2003. *

PARIS Musee Guimet: "The Golden Age of Chinese Furniture"; to July 14.

Musee du Louvre: Twentieth Century Design Fair; June 6-9. For information call 33-1-42-77-58-94.

Great Britain

DEVONSHIRE Chatsworth House: "Joseph Paxton Bicentenary"; to December 21.

EDINBURGH National Gallery of Scotland: "Gainsborough's Beautiful Mrs. Graham"; to June 22.

Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse: "Faberge" to October 12. *

GLASGOW Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow "Beauty and the Butterfly"; June 21 to October 4. * # "Copper into Gold: Whistler and 19th Century Printmaking"; June 21 to October 4. *


 

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