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Left: Eagle by Bernard Langlais, ,ca. 1964, raw and painted wood, 96 x 48 x 3 inches, Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Bernard Langlais. Photo: Pixel Acuity. On view at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. July 19 to January 4, 2015.
ALABAMA
Montgomery Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: “Origins: The First Twenty-Five Years of the MMFA Collection”; July 12 to August 31.
ARIZONA
Phoenix Phoenix ArtMuseum: “Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona”; to September 21.* # “William H. Johnson: An American Modern”; to July 13.*
ARKANSAS
Bentonville Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: “American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of revolution”; to September 15.* # “Born of Fire: Ceramic Art in Regional Collections”; to March 2, 2015.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Autry National Center: “Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork”; to April 26, 2015.* # “Route 66: The Road and the Romance”; to January 4, 2015.
J. Paul Getty Center: “Chivalry in the Middle Ages”; July 8 to November 30. # “In Focus: Ansel Adams”; to July 20. # “Rococo to Revolution: 18th-Century French Drawings from Los Angeles Collections”; to September 21. # “The Scandalous Art of James Ensor”; to September 7.
San Francisco de Young Museum: “Shaping Abstraction”; to January 4, 2015.
Legion of Honor: “Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art”; to August 3.* # “Matisse from SFMOMA”; to September 7.* # “The Poetry of Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca'”; July 26 to October 5.
Santa Ana Bowers Museum: “The Lure of Chinatown: Painting California’s Chinese Communities”; to August 31.
Stanford Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University: “Inside Rodin’s Hands: Art, Technology, and Surgery”; to August 3.
CANADA
Edmonton Art Gallery of Alberta: “Lawren Harris and A. Y. Jackson: Jasper/Robson, 1924”; to August 17.
Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: “Fabulous Fabergé: Jeweller to the Czars”; to October 5.
Ottawa National Gallery of Canada: “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris”; to September 14.* # “Gustave Doré (1832-1883): Master of Imagination”; to September 14.*
COLORADO
Denver Denver ArtMuseum: “The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925”; to August 31.* # “Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective”; July 13 to September 14.*
CONNECTICUT
Greenwich Greenwich Historical Society: “Enjoying the Country Life: Greenwich’s Great Estates”; to August 31.
New Haven Yale Center for British Art: “‘Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower’: Artists’ Books and the Natural World”; to August 10.*
Yale University Art Gallery: “Byobu: The Grandeur of Japanese Screens”; to July 6.
Old Lyme Florence Griswold Museum: “Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum”; to September 21.G “Thistles and Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore”; to September 21.
Waterbury Mattatuck Museum: “Fancy This: The Gilded Age of Fashion”; to October 19.
DELAWARE
Winterthur Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library: “Costumes of Downton Abbey”; to January 4, 2015. # “The Flowering of American Tinware”; to January 4, 2015.
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA
Freer and Sackler Galleries: “An American in London: Whistler and the Thames”; to August 17.* # “Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler”; to September 28.
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens: “Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Dazzling Gems”; to December 31.
National Gallery of Art: “Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In”; to November 30.* # “Degas/Cassatt”; to October 5.*
National Museum of Women in the Arts: “Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships”; to September 14.
National Portrait Gallery: “Theodore Roosevelt and the East Africa Safari, 1909-10”; to August 3.
Smithsonian American ArtMuseum: “Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection”; to August 17. # “Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget“; to August 3.
FLORIDA
Coral Gables Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami: “Conquest and Coexistence: The Cultural Synthesis of Spanish Colonial Art”; to April 26, 2015. “Terrestrial Paradises: Imagery from the Voyages of Captain James Cook”; to July 13.
Miami Beach Wolfsonian-Florida International University: “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America”; to September 28.*
Sarasota John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: “Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World”; to August 2.* # “In the Streets: Photographing Urban Spaces”; to July 13.
GEORGIA
Athens Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: “Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art”; to August 24.* # “The Prints of Mary Wallace Kirk”; July 19 to October 12.* # “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise”; to August 31.*
Atlanta High Museum of Art: “Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas”; to September 7.* # “Wynn Bullock: Revelations”; to January 18, 2015.*
Savannah Telfair Museums: “Helen Levitt: In the Street”; to September 21. # “Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection”; July 25 to February 15, 2015.
HAWAII
Honolulu Honolulu Museum of Art: “Art Deco Hawai’i”; to January 11, 2015.
ILLINOIS
Chicago Art Institute of Chicago: “Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938”; to October 13.*
Field Museum: “Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World’s Fair”; to September 7.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: “Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago”; to June 12, 2016.*
INDIANA
Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art: “For America: Prints of the American Art-Union”; to September 28. # “Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904”; to September 7.*
IOWA
Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: “Grant Wood: American Impressionist”; to September 21.
Davenport Figge Art Museum: “Two Americans in Paris: Stuart Davis and Grant Wood”; to November 2.
Des Moines Des Moines Art Center: “Matisse: ‘Jazz'”; to September 21.
LOUISIANA
New Orleans Historic New Orleans Collection: “Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere”; to December 7.*
MAINE
Portland Portland Museum of Art: “Richard Estes’ Realism”; to September 7.*
Waterville Colby College Museum of Art: “Bernard Langlais”; July 19 to January 4, 2015.*
MARYLAND
Baltimore Walters ArtMuseum: “Seeing Music in Medieval Manuscripts”; to October 12.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: “D is for Design”; to February 22, 2015. # “Jamie Wyeth”; July 16 to December 28.* # “Over There! Posters from World War I”; July 26 to June 15, 2015. # “Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection”; to July 27.* # “Truth and Beauty: Pictorialist Photography”; to February 22, 2015.
Deerfield Historic Deerfield: “Furniture Masterworks: Tradition and Innovation in Western Massachusetts”; to December 28.
Salem Peabody Essex Museum: “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way”; to July 6.* # “Turner and the Sea”; to September 1.*
Sturbridge Old Sturbridge Village: “Bucket Town: Four Centuries of Toymaking and Coopering in Hingham”; to January 18, 2015.*
MICHIGAN
Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Art Museum: “Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America”; to August 24.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis Minneapolis Institute of Arts: “The Coated Splendor: Art of Chinese Lacquer (12th-19th centuries)”; to April 19, 2015. # “The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection”; to August 24.* # “Women in Craft and Design”; to July 20.
Winona Minnesota Marine Art Museum: “Marine, Hudson River School, Impressionist and Modern Art”; to December 31, 2015.
MISSOURI
Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: “Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper”; to August 24. # “Edgar Degas Pastels”; to July 20. # “Gérôme and the Lure of the Orient”; to July 20.
St. Louis St. Louis ArtMuseum: “Flowers of the Four Seasons in Chinese and Japanese Art”; to September 1. # “Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet”; to July 6.* # “Louis IX: King, Saint, Namesake”; August 29 to November 2.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Manchester Currier Museum of Art: “Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey”; to August 17.*
NEW JERSEY
Montclair Montclair ArtMuseum: “100 Works for 100 Years: A Centennial Celebration”; to November 2.
Point Pleasant Bay Head Historical Society: “Folk Art of Barnegat Bay”; to August 11.
Princeton Morven Museum and Garden: “Micah Williams: Portrait Artist”; to September 14.*
NEW YORK
Catskill Thomas Cole National Historic Site: “Master, Mentor, Master-Thomas Cole and Frederic Church”; to November 2.*
Cooperstown Fenimore Art Museum: “The Adirondack World of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait”; to September 1. # “A Moment Past: L.F. Tantillo Paints New York History”; to December 31. # “Winslow Homer: The Nature and Rhythm of Life”; to August 24.*
Garrison Boscobel House and Gardens: “The Hudson River Portfolio: A Beginning for the HudsonRiver School”; August 3 to November 30.
Hudson Olana: “All the Raj: Frederic Church and Lockwood de Forest-Painting, Decorating, and Collecting at Olana”; to November 2.*
Poughkeepsie Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: “Faces and Figures in Self-Taught Art”; July 11 to August 31.
Jordanville Foundation of Russian History, Holy Trinity Monastery: “The Russian Word and Image: Four Centuries of Books and Art”; ongoing.
Utica Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute: “A Century of Olmsted: Utica and Beyond”; August 14 to December 28. # “The Golden Age of European Painting”; to September 14.
NEW YORK CITY
American Folk Art Museum: “Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”; to August 17.*
Frick Collection: “Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion”; to April 5, 2015. # “Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face”; August 5 to October 26. # “The Poetry of Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca'”; to July 20.
Grolier Club: “The Power of Words and Images in a World at War”; to August 2.*
Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”; to August 10.* # “Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin”; to December 7.* # “The Flowering of Edo-Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection”; to September 7.* # “Goya and the Altamira Family”; to August 3.* # “Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection”; to September 1. # “Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics (c. 1880-1910)”; to August 18. # “The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design”; to October 26.*
Morgan Library and Museum: “A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany”; to September 7. # “Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection”; to September 7. # “Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France”; to September 14.*
Museum of the City of New York: “Gilded New York”; to November 30.* # “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile”; to September 7.*
Neue Galerie: “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937”; to September 1.* # “Posters of the Vienna Secession, 1898-1918”; to September 1.*
New York Botanical Garden: “Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens: The Women Who Designed Them”; to September 7.
New-York Historical Society: “Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War”; to August 24. # “Madeline in New York: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans”; to October 13.
Cover for Madeline’s Rescue, 1953Madeline’s Rescue (The Viking Press, 1953)GouacheIris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Laurel D. Schumann Collection, given in memory of her deceased father, Lawrence R. SchumannCopyright © The Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans.
“Said the lion, ‘we’d better go back,'” 1959Madeline and the Gypsies (The Viking Press, 1959)GouacheCollection of Judy KochCopyright © The Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans
“The little girls all cried ‘Boo-hoo!'” 1956/57Madeline and the Bad Hat (The Viking Press, 1956/57)GouacheCollection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. RoyceCopyright © The Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans.
Whitney Museum of American Art: “Collecting Calder”; July 17 to Octber 19. # “Edward Hopper and Photography”; July 17 to October 19.
NORTH CAROLINA
Winston-Salem Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: “Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware”; to September 15.
OHIO
Cincinnati Cincinnati Art Museum: “Cincinnati Silver: 1788-1940”; to September 7.* # “Conversations around American Gothic”; August 30 to November 16. # “Cries in the Night: German Expressionist Prints around World War I”; to August 17.
Taft Museum of Art: “America’s Eden: Thomas Cole and The Voyage of Life”; to September 14.
Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art: “Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire”; to September 28. # “The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550”; to December 7.
Columbus Columbus Museum of Art: “Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection”; to August 31.*
Toledo Toledo Museum of Art: “The Great War: Art on the Front Line”; July 25 to October 19. # “In Fine Feather: Birds, Art and Science”; to July 6.* # “Fun and Games: The Pursuit of Leisure”; to September 21.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Museum of Art: “Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris”; to September 14.*
Tulsa Philbrook Museum of Art: “Hard Times, Oklahoma, 1939-40”; July 27 to October 26. # “Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River”; to September 21.*
OREGON
Portland Portland Art Museum: “The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden”; to September 14.* # “Cobalt Blues”; to October 19.
PENNSYLVANIA
Chadds Ford Brandywine River Museum: “Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles Burchfield”; August 23 to November 16.
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: “From Trompe l’Oeil to Modernism: Still Lifes from the PAFA Collection”; to August 23.
Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Picasso Prints: Myths, Minotaurs, and Muses”; to August 3.
Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art: “Faked, Forgotten, Found: Five Renaissance Paintings Investigated”; to September 15. # “Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals”; to February 16, 2015.
Frick Art and Historical Center: “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist-Works on Paper by the Artist and His Circle”; to October 5.*
Reading Public Museum: “Masterpieces of American Longrifles: The Kindig Family Collection”; to September 1.*
RHODE ISLAND
Bristol Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum: “Sculpture Embraces Horticulture”; August 1 to October 13.
Newport National Museum of American Illustration: “Norman Rockwell and his Contemporaries”; to August 31.
Newport Art Museum: “‘Very Simple Charm’: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt in Newport, 1858-1878”; to September 14.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston Charleston Museum: “Unfurled: Flags from the Collections of the Charleston Museum”; to January 4, 2015.
TENNESSEE
Nashville Frist Center for the Visual Arts: “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”; to October 12.
TEXAS
Austin Blanton Museum of Art: “In The Company of Cats and Dogs”; to September 22.
Dallas Dallas Museum of Art: “From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith”; to December 7.* # “Mind’s Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne”; to October 26.*
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University: “The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle”; to August 24.*
Fort Worth Amon Carter Museum of American Art: “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist”; to September 7.* # “No Place Like Home: American Scene Painting in th Sinquefield Collection”; to October 19.
Kimbell Art Museum: “Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection”; to August 31.*
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “Alexander Archipenko: The Berlin Drawings”; to August 17. # “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris”; to September 14.* # “Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House”; to September 21.
VIRGINIA
Charlottesville Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia: “Reflections and Undercurrents: Ernest David Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940”; to August 10.
Middleburg National Sporting Library and Museum: “Foxcroft School: The Art of Women and the Sporting Life”; to August 24.
Richmond Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: “Catching Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print”; to July 13.* # “The Great War: Printmakers of World War I”; July 28 to November 9. # “Signs of Protest; Photographs from the Civil Rights Era”; to September 7.
Williamsburg Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum: “Inspiration and Ingenuity: American Stoneware”; through October. # “Tramp Art”; to October 4.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum: “Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America, 1700-1830”; ongoing.* # “China of the Most Fashionable Sort: Chinese Export Porcelain in Colonial America”; ongoing. # “Painters and Paintings in the Early American South”; to September 7.* # “A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South”; ongoing.
WASHINGTON
Seattle Seattle Art Museum: “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945”; to October 19.*
Nordic Heritage Museum: “Danish Modern: Design for Living”; to August 31.
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Milwaukee ArtMuseum: “Kandinsky: A Retrospective”; to September 1.*
An * indicates that a catalogue, brochure, and/or checklist is available for this exhibition. Information and photographs should be received three months before the opening month of an exhibition and four months before lectures, symposiums, and antiques shows that include loan exhibitions or lectures.
