Yale University Art Gallery has brought together two dozen objects connected to the rich cultural history of that maritime trade for an intriguing show: Japan’s Global Baroque, 1550–1650.
Fallen Idylls
Ruins in the American collective consciousness
Boston baroque
Upholstery for an early easy chair
Gertrude Fiske breaks the glass ceiling at Discover Portmouth
Gertrude Fiske: American Master April 6 to September 30
Finding a past for the present
Rural imagery in precisionist art
Curious Objects: Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 2
Part two of our special coverage of the 2018 Winter Antiques Show, featuring conversations with eight dealers of furniture, folk art, embroidery, and more.
The surreal art of the Chicago saloniste Gertrude Abercrombie
About forty works of art—mostly paintings—by the self-anointed “Queen of Chicago,” are on view in Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, a show that originated at the Elmhurst Art Museum and will be presented at the Illinois State Museum this spring.
Other Americas
The Whitney Museum reappraises the career of Grant Wood
Frederic Church in the cradles of Christianity and Western civilization
Preeminent member of the Hudson River school Frederic Edwin Church is the subject of a show currently running at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Reconsidering sepia: Clarence White’s photography at the Davis
Clarence H. White, one of the pioneers of the pictorialist style in photography, is having his first retrospective in more than a generation, a traveling show now on view at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.