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
A lost Jacob Lawrence painting rediscovered
The panel is one of five from a narrative series whose whereabouts have been unknown to scholars for nearly sixty years
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.
Bicycle Reparations
How two antiques dealers on opposite sides of the Atlantic came to the aid of a theft victim
Art and totalitarian terror at the Neue Galerie
This month, the Neue Galerie brings us Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, the much-anticipated completion of curator Olaf Peters’ trilogy of meditations on interwar Germany and Austria.
The leafy modernism of Ilonka Karasz
How a prolific, polymathic artist and designer joined an eye for the sleek with a taste for the pastoral
A painted brag at the Yale Center for British Art
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World at the Yale Center for British Art









