Art History News - Pandemic Edition: November - January

 

Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 6 days ago

*The Metropolitan Museum of Art * *Robert Lehman Wing * *through July 18, 2021* German artist Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six landmark paintings by the artist to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2020. The portraits, made in 1969, are among the first that Baselitz created using the radical strategy of inversion, in which the pictorial motif is literally turned upside down, enabling the artist to focus on painting's possibilities, rather than the image of the sitter in direct relationship to the viewer. The compositional and conc...

Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.February 21–June 20, 2021 ------------------------------ [image: David Hockney, Under the Trees, Bigger] David Hockney, *Under the Trees, Bigger,* 2010–11, oil on 20 canvases, David Hockney Inc. © David Hockney / photo: Richard Schmidt view slideshow Two visionary artists, separated in time and space, are united by a shared fascination with nature. See the work of David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh side by side in *Hockney – Van** Gogh: The Joy of Nature*. This exhibition examines the common ground between British artist Hockney (born 1...

Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

William James Glackens, Early Spring, Washington Square, ca. 1910. Oil on canvas; 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm). New-York Historical Society, Gift of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld, 2021.1.2 The New-York Historical Society has announced that the first artworks from philanthropists and art collectors Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld’s extraordinary promised gift have joined the Museum’s collection and will go on view beginning February 12. Depicting New York locations still recognizable today, the works include *The Boat Harbor (Gowanus Pier)*, ca. 1888, by William Merritt Chase; *Early Spri...

Swann Galleries February 4: The Artists of the WPA

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

Reginald Marsh, *The Waterfront, New York*, oil on canvas, 1943. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. On *Thursday, February 4* *Swann Galleries* will offer the auction: *The Artists of the WPA*. The multi-departmental sale will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, books and related ephemera by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress Administration. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and its related agencies represented an unprecedented investment in art and artists, setting the scene for the twentieth ...

Creating the American West in Art

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

*Frist Art Museum* *March 5 through June 27, 2021* Thomas Moran. A Snowy Mountain Range (Path of Souls, Idaho), 1896. Oil on canvas, 14 x 27 in. Denver Art Museum: Roath Collection, 2013.109 The Frist Art Museum presents *Creating the American West in Art*, an exhibition of nearly 80 paintings and sculptures ranging in date from 1822 to 1946 and made by such notable artists as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, E. Irving Couse, Robert Henri, John Sloan, and Maynard Dixon. Drawn from the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denv...

UNITED STATES OF ABSTRACTION. AMERICAN ARTISTS IN FRANCE, 1946-1964

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago

*Musée d’arts de Nantes, * *12 February – 24 May 2021* *1 Musée Fabre, Montpellier, * *3 July – 17 October 2021* *The Musée d'arts de Nantes and the Musée Fabre in Montpellier are organising an exhibition entitled **United States of Abstraction. American Artists in France, 1946-1964**.* The role of Paris as the world capital of Western art since the 19th century is well recognised and it is also considered an established fact that the City of Light lost this pre-eminence after World War II to New York. The history of Abstract Expressionism, the New York School and its he...

Sotheby's Global Livestream Auction: 28 January

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago

With Sotheby’s poised to re-open the doors once more onto its galleries in New Bond Street in London, this winter season’s series of Old Master and Treasures sales will showcase works by some of history’s most famous artists, including *Albrecht Dürer* and *Rembrandt.* From paintings to prints, to sculpture and drawings, these artworks will go on view alongside unique and extraordinary objects encapsulating the history of patronage and collecting over the centuries. Alongside these 700 artworks spanning 800 years, two paintings from our sale of Old Masters in New York in late J...

Picasso to Rothko: European and American Masters in Dialogue

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago

* Palm Beach SOTHEBY'S* *9—31 January 2021 * A constellation of pivotal artistic and historic moments, this exhibition illuminates the influences that connect these icons of post-war art across the Atlantic. Miró, Dubuffet, and Picasso had a formative impact on many mid-century vanguard American painters. In his early work, Rothko was inspired by the primordial imagery and mystical landscapes of Miró, who in turn saw and admired the New York school following a visit to the United States in 1947. When describing his observations of American painting, Miró explained that, “it showe...

Frida Kahlo: Five Works

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

*Dallas Museum of Art * *February 28, 2021* This winter, the Dallas Museum of Art will share with visitors the rare opportunity to see five exquisite works by the acclaimed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. In her lifetime, Kahlo’s work was well-known in artistic circles, particularly in Mexico and the United States. In the years since her death in 1954, her work has garnered ever-increasing critical attention and international praise. Today, her fame is so widespread that she has gone from being simply a celebrated artist, to a global cultural phenomenon. Opening on February 28, 2021...

Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

* Denver Art Museum* *November 14, 2021 - February 13, 2022 **Virginia Museum of Fine Arts **March 26, 2022 - July 10, 2022.* John Singer Sargent, Atlantic Storm, 1876. Oil paint on canvas; 23 x 32 in. Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis, MN. The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has announced the exhibition *Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France*, set to premiere at DAM November 14, 2021. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings made between 1855 and 1913 in the first comprehensive examination of France’s stylistic impact on American painting of the ...

Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

* Asheville Art Museum* *January 22 through April 19, 2021* Edgar Degas, The Laundress Ironing (La Blanchisseuse Repassant), circa 1882–1886, oil on canvas, 27 ½ × 27 ¾. Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, gift, Martha Elizabeth Dick Estate.William Merritt Chase, My Palette , circa 1870 – 1880, oil on canvas, 20 × 24 inches. Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, Museum Purchase *Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens*—drawn mostly from the collection of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA—explores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century i...

Jacob Lawrence The American Struggle

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 weeks ago

Birmingham Museum of Art November 20, 2020 - February 07, 2021 *Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle* features the series of paintings *Struggle . . . From the History of the American People* (1954–56) by the iconic American modernist. The exhibition reunites the multi-paneled work for the first time in more than half a century. One of the greatest narrative artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) painted his *Struggle* series to show how women and people of color helped shape the founding of our nation. Originally conceived as a series of sixty paintings, span...

An Epic of Earth and Water: Clare Leighton and the New England Industries Series

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 weeks ago

Birmingham Museum of ArtOctober 05, 2020 - May 02, 2021 - Arrington Gallery In 1948, the Wedgwood company asked British-American artist Clare Leighton (1898-1989) to create a series of twelve designs to be printed on a limited edition set of creamware plates for the American market. Wedgwood decided that the theme would be “New England Industries,” but gave Leighton freedom to choose which industries she would focus on, an exciting opportunity for the artist, who was well familiar with New England from summers spent in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Thus began a journey for the artist, wh...

Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago

Fields of Grain as Seen from Train, 1931, oil on canvas, 24 x 34 1/8 in. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Gift of Seymour H. Knox Jr., K1958:1 The Arthur G. Dove Catalogue Raisonné Project today announced the publication of a complete and authoritative catalogue raisonné of the pioneering modernist’s work. Edited and written by scholar and curator Debra Bricker Balken, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things sheds expansive new light on the artist’s work with an illustrated survey of the full corpus of his known paintings and assemblages (or “things”), al...

Tiepolo. Venezia, Milano, l’Europa

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago

*From 30 October 2020 to 21 March 2021, the Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala (the Intesa Sanpaolo museum complex in Milan) *hosts the exhibition *Tiepolo. Venezia, Milano, l’Europa*, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Alessandro Morandotti with general coordination by Gianfranco Brunelli. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Giambattista Tiepolo’s death (Venice 1696 - Madrid 1770), the first dedicated exhibition in Milan is now being staged. The exhibition, under the High Patronage of the Italian President of the Republic and in partnership with the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Veni...

Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art”

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago

*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia* *through November 2021* Following up on last year’s extended display of paintings celebrating Caravaggio’s influence, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is now showcasing six more paintings on loan from Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina. The exhibition “Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” focuses on the Golden Age of Spanish painting and is on view through November 2021. t Attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598 – 1664), “The Annunciation,” 1639 – 40. Oil on can...

Christie’s The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale 9 MARCH 2021

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago

René Magritte, *Le mois des vendanges,* oil on canvas, 51.1/4 x 63 in. (127.6 x 160 cm.), Painted in 1959, Estimate: £10,000,000-15,000,000 Three works by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró from the Collection of Claude Hersaint, one of the most important collectors of Surrealist art in the 20th century, will lead the annual *The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale*. The auction will take place on 9 March 2021 as part of 20th Century at Christie’s in March 2021. Exhibited extensively, the group is comprised of Magritte’s iconic *Le mois des vendanges *(1959, estimate: £10,000,00...

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago

*The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace* * 4 December 2020 – January 2022* Spectacular paintings widely recognised as among the highlights of the Royal Collection – including works by Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, van Dyck and Canaletto – have gone on display together in a gallery exhibition for the first time. Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, opening at The Queen’s Gallery in London tomorrow (Friday, 4 December), brings together 65 of the most treasured paintings that usually hang in the Picture Gallery, one of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The exhibition gives ...

Made in Connecticut

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford* * through Sunday, February 7, 2021 * Thomas Cole, View of Monte Video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq, 1828. Oil on wood. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Bequest of Daniel WadsworthFrank Vincent Dumond, Grassy Hill, 1920. Oil on canvas. Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of Elisabeth DuMond PerryGuy C. Wiggins, Mantle of Winter, 1924. Oil on canvas. William Benton Museum of Art, University of ConnecticutJohn G. Matilus, New Britain Seen From Newington, 1942. Tempera on panel. New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of David Matulis...

Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago

*Chrysler Museum of Art: Feb. 12-May 16, 2021* *Milwaukee Art Museum: June 11-Oct. 3, 2021 * Childe Hassam, Plaza de la Merced, Ronda, 1910. Oil on panel. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (64.6 x 52 cm) Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Opening on February 12, 2021, in Norfolk, Virginia, and on June 11, 2021, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, *Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920* highlights prominent American artists such as Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, who traveled to Spain for t...

Church & Rothko: Sublime

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

A current exhibition titled *Church & Rothko: Sublime* at Mnuchin Gallery in New York pairs the Hudson River School paintings of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) with the Color Field canvases of Mark Rothko (1903-1970). The gallery collaborated with Michael N. Altman and Christopher Rothko, the artist's son, to coordinate ten abstract 20th century works with an array of atmospheric 19th century landscapes -- glimpse the show online. Roberta Smith writes for the *New York Times*, "The show’s opening combination is breathtaking. On one wall Rothko’s 'Browns and Blacks in Reds' (1...

Dancing in the Light: Masterworks from the Age of American Impressionism

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*Canton Museum of Art**Through March 7, 2021* (from left): Facade of Palazzo, Girgenti, Sicily (detail), c. 1901. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925). Watercolor on paper, 10 x 7 inches. On Loan from a Private Collection c/o Keny Galleries. | Bleak House, Broadstairs (detail), 1889. Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1938). Watercolor on paper, 13 x 9 inches. Canton Museum of Art Collection.*Canton Museum of Art*(from left): Ca d'Oro, Venice (detail), 1889. Robert Blum (American, 1857 - 1903). Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. On Loan from a Private Collection c/o Keny Gallerie...

American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN September 19, 2020 – December 13, 2020 Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, Lake Charles, LA January 16, 2021 – March 13, 2021 Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, FL April 8, 2021 – July 5, 2021 Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL July 31, 2021 – October 24, 2021 Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL November 18, 2021 – February 13, 2022 Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM April 29, 2022 – July 23, 2022 Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA October 1, 2022 – January 8, 2023 Edward Willis Redfield, Road and River, 1926. Gif...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), The Dutch Golden Age: Prints by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD * *November 8, 2020 – January 24, 2021* *Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606 – 1669), The Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1632, etching, Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Goodman, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania* During the Dutch Golden Age the arts flourished-many artists who are now household names, including Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), worked during this period, when a growing middle-class became more able to afford material goods, including art. After the Protestant Reformation (1517) secular subjects became more common in P...

Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska * *November 21, 2020, through April 11, 2021.* *Shelburne Museum (Shelburne, VT; * *May 1–August 29, 2021) * *Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme, CT; * *October 2, 2021–January 24, 2022).* Thomas Worth (American, 1834–1917), A Brush for the Lead. New York Flyers on the Snow (detail), 1867, lithograph, Gift of Conagra Brands, 2016.20.488. On view in Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives, November 21, 2020–April 11, 2021.Charles Parsons (American, b. England, 1821–1910), Lyman W. Atwater (American, 1835–1891), Central Park, Winte...

TURNER'S MODERN WORLD

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*TATE BRITAIN* *28 OCTOBER 2020 *- *7 MARCH 2021* Tate Britain presents a landmark exhibition dedicated to JMW Turner (1775-1851), exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime. *Turner’s Modern World *reveals how Britain’s greatest landscape painter found new ways to capture the momentous events of his day, from technology’s impact on the natural world to the dizzying effects of modernisation on society. The exhibition brings together 150 key works, including major loans as well as paintings and rarely seen drawings from the rich holdings of Tate’s collectio...

Swann- Old Master Through Modern Prints: Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Louis Lozowick, Joan Miró, Diego Rivera & more

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 months ago

The auction is led by *Louis Lozowick*’s scarce circa-1925 Art Deco lithograph *New York, *of which only three other impressions have been seen at auction in the past 30 years ($40,000-60,000). Edward Hopper is available with *Night Shadows*, etching, 1921 ($20,000-30,000): the work is the only commercial etching printed by Hopper and was created for *The New Republic*, New York, and published in a limited edition portfolio for their December 1924 issue. Additional works by American printmakers include color woodcuts by Gustave Baumann, classic views of New York City by Marti...

Art History News - Pandemic Edition: March-October

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 months ago

Click on titles for full reports, and more images. Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 hours ago *Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC), Newport News, Virginia* *Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, 2020* Salvador Dalí (Spanish , 1904-1989) The Thumb, The Vision of the Angel of Cap Creus, 1979. Color lithograph © 2020 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala -Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society Roberto Matta ( Chilean , 191 1 - 200 2 ) Carné Amont 3/6 , 1979 Engraving © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris For its final exhibition, the Pen...