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'Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water' Exhibition Opens at Seattle Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2022
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water (March 18–May 30, 2022), exploring the many ways artists around the world have engaged with the theme of water. The exhibition features works from SAM’s collection and three local lenders, with over 80 works of art ...
Hudson River Museum Acquires 19th-Century Masterworks By Fitz Henry Lane and Severin Roesen
ArtfixDaily / March 14th, 2022
Hudson River Museum (HRM) has announced the gift of two exquisite paintings: Gloucester, Stage Fort Beach, 1849, by Fitz Henry Lane; and Fruit with Water Glass, ca. 1850–70, by Severin Roesen; both works were generously donated to the HRM’s collection by Shelley and Felice Bergman. These major ...
'Alive With Birds' Exhibition Brings Together Historic Art to Illustrate the Role of Bird Advocate William Brewster
ArtfixDaily / February 27th, 2022
“To my great surprise, the Farm was simply alive with birds, the entire morning.” William Brewster, April 7, 1893. The Concord Museum in Concord, Massacusetts, has collaborated with Mass Audubon on the special exhibition, Alive with Birds: William Brewster in Concord, on view March 4, ...
Major Exhibition of American Art From a Transformative Era Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ArtfixDaily / February 27th, 2022
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) will host the highly anticipated exhibition Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France from April 16, 2022 to July 31, 2022. The exhibition, which made its debut at the Denver Art Museum, focuses on a group of aspiring artists who, between the late ...
New Exhibition on Artists' Perceptions of War Opens at Clark Art Institute
ArtfixDaily / February 24th, 2022
The Clark Art Institute’s latest exhibition presents four centuries of war imagery from Europe and the United States in As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War, on view March 5–May 30, 2022. Spanning European and American art from 1520–1920, the exhibition of prints, drawings, and photographs ...
New Exhibition 'Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration' Explores the Artist's Influential Final Years
ArtfixDaily / February 23rd, 2022
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site Presents New Exhibition “Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration” Curated by Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator of the National Gallery of Art Thomas Cole was already the most famous landscape painter in America when he died unexpectedly at the age of 47 ...
Schwenke Auctioneers February 27th Sale Comprises Over 350 Lots of Eclectic Fine & Decorative Arts, Oriental Rugs and Fine Art Frames
ArtfixDaily / February 23rd, 2022
Woodbury, CT – On Sunday, February 27th at 11:00am Schwenke Auctioneers will hold its February Eclectic Estates Auction with an offering of over 350 lots of freshly consigned estate property. The auction features property from an Old Saybrook estate, a Westchester County NY collector, a ...
'Shifting the Silence' Exhibition at SFMOMA Amplifies Women Artists This Spring
ArtfixDaily / February 22nd, 2022
A thought-provoking range of exhibitions will debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) this spring, inspiring new ways to see and engage with the world. The role of an architect in the age of climate change is examined in the exclusive exhibition Nature × Humanity: Oxman ...
Massachusetts Modernist and Marsh-Themed Works Form 2 New Exhibitions at Cape Ann Museum
ArtfixDaily / February 20th, 2022
Stretching across 25,000 acres of vast salt marsh, barrier beaches, and tidal rivers on Massachusetts’ North Shore is the Great Marsh, a natural wonder that has captivated many artists over the years. Window on the Marsh is a new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum that features two works of the ...
Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2022
UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA), in Irvine, Calif., announced that its next exhibition, Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century, will be presented at its interim location at 18881 Von Karman Avenue ...
Peabody Essex Museum Combines Its Renowned Native American and American Art Collections In a Refreshed Gallery Installation
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2022
This winter, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., opens a new gallery that, for the first time, combines its Native American and American collections. On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America brings together more than 250 historical and contemporary works from its ...
'Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature' Examines a Turn-of-the-20th Century Design Process and Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / February 6th, 2022
Though July 31, 2022, the exhibition Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature at the Cooper Hewitt in New York explores the fashionable florals of an American designer. From the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield (American, 1862–1929) designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and ...
MFA Boston Kicks Off Spring with 2 Powerful Exhibitions: 'Philip Guston: Now' and 'Turner's Modern World'
ArtfixDaily / February 1st, 2022
This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings focus to a pair of differing game-changer artists, J. M. W. Turner and Philip Guston, who responded to their own tumultuous times with innovative artistic visions. One of Britain’s greatest artists, J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and ...
Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
ArtfixDaily / January 31st, 2022
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is now presenting Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life, the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice, bringing together over 100 works from all facets of Bertoia’s ...
The Radical Beauty of Helen Frankenthaler's Innovative Woodcuts
ArtfixDaily / January 30th, 2022
Through April 18, 2022, the UK's Dulwich Picture Gallery brings together a major exhibition of woodcuts by the leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011). Shining a light on her groundbreaking woodcuts, Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty showcases the artist as a ...
Reynolda House Museum Acquires Works by John Singer Sargent and Minnie Evans
ArtfixDaily / January 25th, 2022
Reynolda House Museum of American Art has announced that Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Baker of Winston-Salem have offered the Museum a portrait of Mrs. Augustus Hemenway by acclaimed portrait artist John Singer Sargent and an untitled drawing by the self-taught African American artist from North Carolina, ...
San Francisco's FOG Design+Art Closes with Robust Sales and Strong Attendance
ArtfixDaily / January 25th, 2022
The eighth edition of FOG Design+Art closed on Sunday, January 23, 2022, following a pause in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Exhibitors, curators, collectors and attendees reported a strong return to the fair, noting great sales, well-curated presentations and excellent attendance throughout ...
Innovative 20th-Century Paintings of Leon Polk Smith Spotlighted in New Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
Palm Springs Art Museum has announced an exhibition featuring the work of the innovative painter, Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996), whose significant contributions to twentieth-century art are becoming increasingly recognized. The exhibition, Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962, will run March 26 – August 28, ...
The Pioneering Modern Art and Design of Norman Ives Explored in Major Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut, will present Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions, a large-scale exhibition, opening on Saturday, Jan. 29. The exhibition explores the range and evolution of Norman Ives’s work and features examples of his paintings, collages, ...
Intersect Palm Springs to Feature 50 Exhibitors, Curated Spaces and Sculpture Garden
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
Intersect Palm Springs, a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of more than 50 emerging and established contemporary and modern art and design galleries, released its exhibitor list and special exhibitions for the 2022 edition. An Opening Night Preview on Thursday, February 10 will be ...