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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, August 21, 2014

Hudson River School Masterpieces Made Into USPS Stamps
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 20th, 2014 22:21

Four seminal 19th-century American artworks have become the latest Forever stamps issued by the United States Postal Service.

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902), Indian on Horseback, ca. 1870-80, oil on canvas, Gift of Norm W. Waitt, Jr.

Joslyn Art Museum Installs New Gifts of Contemporary Sculpture, Western Painting
Release Date: 20 August 2014
Joslyn Art Museum’s internationally recognized collection of Western American art has two new additions — Albert Bierstadt’s Indian on Horseback, ca. 1870–80, and Frank Tenney Johnson’s Night on the Oregon Trail, ca. 1930. The two paintings come to the Museum as a gift of Norm W. Waitt, Jr. Both ...

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with the Red Hat (c. 1665-66)

Dutch and Flemish Old Masters to Occupy Birmingham Museum Next Spring
Release Date: 20 August 2014
Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries will go on view at Alabama's Birmingham Museum of Art in Spring 2015. The exhibition, organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art and sponsored by PNC, will be on view from January 30 - April 26, 2015, and will feature works by ...

Karl Wirsum, "Show Girl I," 1969. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Karin Tappendorf.

'What Nerve!' Opens at the RISD Museum in September
Release Date: 20 August 2014
The RISD Museum explores an alternate history of contemporary American art this fall in What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present. The exhibition opens with a Design the Night celebration, and an afternoon of Critical Encounters gallery conversations with curators, ...

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	BachmannEckenstein \| JapaneseArt at Asia Week New York – September 2014 Release Date: 20 August 2014 BachmannEckenstein \| JapaneseArt will be back in New York for a short visit during the 2014 fall edition of Asia Week. They are exhibiting again at Gallery Schlesinger on 73rd Street, just off Madison Avenue. This September there will be a dual focus with a variety of letters by Japanese ... Read more

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