Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum
Japan and the baroque at the Yale University Art Gallery
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.
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
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.
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