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Room installation. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903) 1876-1877. Oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, leather, and wood. Gift of Charles Lang Freer.

Freer Gallery reveals light-filled Whistler's Peacock Room
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 18th, 2011 02:08

For the first time in 25 years, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art will open the shutters of James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room for public view on the third Thursday of each month, beginning Aug. 18, 12-5:30 p.m. Visitors to the room will have a chance to experience the tonal subtleties and decorative variations of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” visible only in natural sunlight. The museum installed ultraviolet- and visible-light-filtering film on the ...

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of a Woman, 1910, oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Picasso and Braque: First Exhibition to Unite Works from Pivotal Years of 1910-1912
Release Date: 17 August 2011
On View September 17, 2011 – January 8, 2012. Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, the first exhibition to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue, goes ...

Attributed to John Davis Leopard; possibly Ussery shop, (1800/03SC–1883 TX), Bacon Level, Randolph County, Single Handle Jug, 1840s, Elaborately tooled rim, concentric lines decoration, alkaline glaze with reddish-brown iron oxide overglaze, 16 x 9 x 9 inches, Collection of Gary and Martha Price

Pottery Exhibition Highlights Alabama Counties
Release Date: 06 August 2011
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents a new exhibition, Bacon Level, Hickory Flat, and the Illustrious Potteries of Randolph and Chambers Counties, Alabama, on view from August 6-November 26, 2011 in Gallery C. In the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century, a ...

Cadzi Cody Shoshone Painted Hide Collected by Ervin F. Cheney - est. $100,000/120,000

Cadzi Cody Shoshone Painted Hide to be Sold in Cowan's September American Indian and Western Art Auction
Release Date: 16 August 2011
CINCINNATI – Cowan’s is pleased to announce our upcoming September 9, 2011 American Indian and Western Art Auction. This sale offers a unique selection of fresh-to-the-market beadwork, paintings, carvings, weavings and basketry from America’s history dating from the 19th to the 20th ...

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	Pop Art in Berlin: It doesn’t always have to be Warhol Release Date: 17 August 2011 Andy Warhol is both the epitome and an icon of pop art. However, it doesn’t always have to be Warhol. An exhibition of this title at Ketterer Kunst in Berlin-Charlottenburg is demonstrating just that from 12 September to 09 October, 2011. With prices ranging between € 50 and € 10.000, the ... Read more

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