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Magazine Antiques, June, 2005 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENLX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; June 5 to September 25.*

California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "For Your Approval: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo"; to September 4.* [??] "Light and Water: Drawing in Eighteenth-Century Venice"; to August 21. [??] "Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits"; June 7 to August 28.*

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Images of Fashion from the Court of Louis XIV"; to June 26. [??] "Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape"; June 26 to September 18.* [??] Lecture: "Nature Unleashed: The Haunting Landscapes of Jacob van Ruisdael," by Amy Walsh, June 26. For information call 323-857-6000.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Line and Color in European Painting"; to September 4. [??] "Origins of Mughal Painting"; to August 28. [??] "Tastes in Asian Art"; to November 6.

Timken Museum of Art: "Old Master Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art [Brunswick, Maine]"; to August 31.

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Nina Fletcher Little and the Connoisseurship of Anonymity," by Philip Zea, June 14. 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"; through 2005. [??] "Amish Quilts: Kaleidoscope of Color from the Collection of Faith & Stephen Brown"; to June 19.

Connecticut

COS COB Bush-Holley Historic Site: "Flowers in Nature and Art: Constant Holley and Elmer MacRae"; to September 4.

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Danish Paintings of the 19th Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr."; to June 19.*

HARTFORD Connecticut Historical Society Museum: "Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and Contemporaries, 1750-1800"; June 23 to October 30.* [??] "Prints and Drawings of Connecticut Towns and Cities, 1830-1900"; to July 17.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Intimate Visions: Small-scale European Paintings of the 15th to 19th Centuries"; to September 11.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Recent Gifts and Acquisitions"; to August 15, [??] "Whistler: The Naval Review"; to August 15.

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Delaware

WILMINGTON Delaware art Museum: New galleries and Sculpture Park, opening June 25-26. [??] "Consuming Desires: Turn-of-the-Century Posters and the Rise of Modern Marketing"; June 26 to October 2.

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony"; June 11 to September 5.*

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "Dutch Royal Silver: Celebrating the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix"; to July 4, [??] "Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Collection"; to July 11.*

Freer Gallery of Art: "Boating on a River"; to August 14. [??] "Luxury and Luminosity: Visual Culture and the Ming Court"; to June 26. [??] "Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s"; ongoing.

National Gallery of Art: "Gilbert Stuart"; to July 31.* [??] "Jan de Bray and the Classical Tradition"; to August 14. [??] "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre"; to June 12.

Octagon Museum: "The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry, and the Architecture of Washington, D.C."; to December 31.

Renwick Gallery: "Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"; to October 23.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "In the Realm of Princes: The Arts of the Book in Fifteenth-century Iran and Central Asia"; to August 7.

Textile Museum: "Textiles for This World and Beyond: Treasures from Insular Southeast Asia"; to September 18.*

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Art Gallery Window from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall"; ongoing. [??] "Carnival Glass from the Morse Collection"; to September 25. [??] "Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public"; to January 12, 2007.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "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.

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era"; to January 8, 2006.*

David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago: "Centers and Edges: Modern Ceramic Design and Sculpture, 1880-1980"; June 2 to September 18. [??] "Objects of History: The Boone Collection of Japanese Art [Field Museum, Chicago]"; to June 12.

Kentucky

LOUISVILLE Speed Art Museum: "Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle"; June 7 to September 18.*

Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS Historic New Orleans Collection: "The Terrible and the Brave: The Battles for New Orleans, 1814-1815"; to January 8, 2006.

New Orleans Museum of Art: "Seldom Seen: Aspects of English and Continental Ceramics from the Permanent Collection"; to September 4. [??] "The Tortoise and the Hare: Myths and Legends in Edoperiod Japanese Painting"; to June 12.