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"Kitty, Sonoma", by renowned painter Charles Rollo Peters, who lived and painted in Monterey from 1894 to 1909.  (Painting made available courtesy of the City of Monterey.) An Important New Cultural Festival in California: Monterey's First Annual Art in the Adobes
Release Date: 24 May 2011
In the late 19th Century, some of California's greatest artists lived in Monterey. Their work is among the most important in the cultural history of the West Coast. Yet much of it, including some of the finest examples of the period, has been hidden away for decades - until now. This fall will ...

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Newsom & Berdan Antiques Wayside Inn Antiques Show shines in second year
Antiques and the Arts - May 24th, 2011 20:11
Forty-six dealers assembled a fresh and inviting display of art and antiques, particularly strong in Americana and New England paintings, for the second annual Wayside Inn Antiques Show in Sudbury, Mass., from May 13 to 15. Guy Leblanc, the historic inn's Director of Marketing, cheerfully greeted attendees at the entrance to the 20,000-sq.-ft. tent. On Sunday, a rain storm dampened the end of the show which is a fundraiser for the Wayside Inn, a Massachusetts Historic Landmark. Overall, said ...

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Huguette Clark as a teenager in the 1920s. Copper heiress Huguette Clark dies at 104
MSNBC - May 24th, 2011 21:31
The mysterious recluse and heir to a copper fortune, Huguette Clark, died at age 104 on Tuesday morning in a New York City hospital. After decades of living in obscurity, Clark captured media attention last year when MSNBC reported on her immense wealth, her three unoccupied residences valued at upwards of $220 million, and the criminal investigation over the handling of her finances. A hospital resident by choice since the late 1980s, in her last years, Clark spoke only to private nurses ...

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Kay Sage Small Portrait, 1950 Oil on canvas 14 ½ x 11 ½ inches The Katonah Museum of Art Exhibits the Works of Surrealists Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy Together for the First Time
Release Date: 30 May 2011
The Katonah Museum of Art takes visitors on a journey through the subconscious as it presents Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy June 5 through September 18, 2011. Organized in partnership with the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, Double Solitaire is ...

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Marsden Hartley United States, 1877 - 1943 Two Shells, 1928 oil on canvas 19 3/4 x 24 inches Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Gift of Joseph H.  Hirshhorn, 1966.  Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940
June 4 - September 11, 2011
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, Maine
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Joseph McGurl, "Hull Gate (Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, MA.), Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in.  Image copyright the artist.  Courtesy of the Michele and David D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. American Legacy: Our National Parks, on Location with the Plein-Air Painters of America
Release Date: 24 May 2011
The most beautiful natural scenery in the United States is presented in the exhibition American Legacy: Our National Parks, on Location with the Plein-Air Painters of America, on view from May 24 through November 6 at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition includes ...

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