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Frederic Remington at the Met

July 23, 2017 - January 2, 2018

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases its holdings of the works of western artist Frederic Remington, through January 2, 2018. The Met describes its show:

The legacy of the enduringly popular American artist Frederic Remington (1861–1909), chronicler par excellence of the American West, will be presented through some 20 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and illustrated books from the late 1880s until his death. Although he lived and worked on the East Coast, Remington traveled extensively. His insightful depictions of trappers, Native Americans, cavalry, scouts, and, above all, his archetypal cowboys are some of the most iconic images of the Old West.

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Gilded Age Drawings at the Met

August 21 - December 10, 2017

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases its holdings of works on paper from the Gilded Age, through December 10, 2017.  The Met describes its show:

This exhibition features more than three dozen rarely seen treasures from The Met’s collection of late 19th-century American works on paper. Created during America’s so-called Gilded Age—which began shortly after the Museum was founded in 1870 and flourished through the 1890s—many of these innovative drawings in watercolor, pastel, and charcoal were acquired during the artists’ lifetimes and became the cornerstone of The Met’s important holdings in this art form. On view are iconic works by some of the leading American artists of the time, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as several new acquisitions. Three recently promised gifts to The Met are a highlight of the exhibition—works by Cecilia Beaux, John La Farge, and Sargent.

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John Graham at the Parrish Museum

May 7 - July 30, 2017

On view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, is receiving praise for its monographic retrospective on the modernist painter John Graham. The Parrish describes the show:

John Graham: Maverick Modernist is a comprehensive survey of significant scope and scholarship, exploring how the artist became an influential figure in the development of a distinctly American approach to art-making in the first half of the twentieth century, and in what ways Graham’s own self-reinvention as an artist mirrors the resourcefulness and ambition of American artists defining a new direction. The exhibition is organized by Alicia G. Longwell, the Parrish’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, along with guest co-curator Karen Wilkin, independent curator, scholar, and critic, and consulting curator William C. Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History Emeritus, Hunter College, City University of New York. Featuring approximately 65 paintings and a selection of important works on paper from the entire expanse of Graham’s four decade career, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated, 150-page catalogue with interpretive essays by the curators.

ArtNews observes:

“This show comes as a timely reminder that there is no reason why an artist cannot do many different things in a career. Perhaps, for that reason, it will lead to a thorough reconsideration of Graham’s status. More than simply the intermediary between Picasso and Pollock, he is a pretty significant artist in his own right.”

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Florine Stettheimer at the Jewish Museum

May 5 through September 24, 2017

Opening May 5th at the Jewish Museum, Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry presents over 50 paintings and drawings. This exhibition offers an important survey of the work of the modernist painter, designer, and poet Florine Stettheimer. Through September 24, 2017.

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Marsden Hartley at Met|Breuer

March 15 - June 18, 2017

An important part of Marsden Hartley’s career is getting its moment under the microscope as Marsden Hartley’s Maine opens at the Met | Breuer building. Not only will there be some brilliant works by Hartley, the Met promises to fulfill the contextualizing mission of the Breuer building by presenting relevant works by other artists, including Cezanne, Winslow Homer, and even the Japanese master, Katsushika Hokusai.  Opens March 15th, on view through June 18th, before travelling to co-organizer Colby College Museum of Art.

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Around Town: “Inventing Downtown” at the Grey Art Gallery

January 10 - April 1, 2017

For those interested in mid-century New York art outside of Abstract Expressionism, sure to visit NYU’s Grey Art Gallery before April 1, 2017. Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 explores the often chaotic art produced in that creatively-fertile setting. Seemingly without the constraints of the market, artists from Yoko Ono to Mark Di Suvero did pioneering work in sculpture, installation, performance and conceptual art — along with advancing the state of painting and more conventional forms. Inventing Downtown is curated by Melissa Rachleff, clinical associate professor in NYU’s Steinhardt School.

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Around Town: Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern at the Brooklyn Museum

March 3 - July 23, 2017

Collectors and enthusiasts of American modernism, take note:  Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern opens at the Brooklyn Museum March 3, 2017.  Organized by guest curator Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University, and coordinated by Lisa Small, Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum.

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Ralston Crawford on view in “Horizon Lines” at Amon Carter Museum

November 2, 2016 - February 26, 2017

For enthusiasts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Amon Carter Museum presents a group exhibition of artists whose work centers on the horizon line. Among these is Ralston Crawford, whose important lithograph Overseas Highway, uses a sleek set of converging lines to move through space. If you’re in the area, stop in for a visit.

Through February 26, 2017.

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New Yorker Magazine Hails the Whitney’s Stuart Davis “In Full Swing”

The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl praised the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new Stuart Davis retrospective, writing:

“The ebullient paintings of Stuart Davis, surveyed in a retrospective aptly titled “In Full Swing,” at the Whitney Museum, rank either at the peak of American modern art or a bit to the side of it, depending on how you construe ‘American’ and ‘modern.'”

Read the whole review here — Stuart Davis In Full Swing is on view on Gansevoort Street through September 25th, before travelling to the National Gallery of Art.

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Fitz Henry Lane at Princeton

A beautiful Fitz Henry Lane is joining the collection of Princeton University Art Museum. This masterpiece of Luminism was unveiled in a press release and reported by ArtFixDaily. As reported in Princeton’s press release,  said Karl Kusserow, the Museum’s John Wilmerding Curator of American Art described the work:

“In certain great works of his late career, Lane gravitated away from portrayal of the crystalline light that served as an essential feature of his early maturity and toward an exploration of more complex atmospheric conditions, such as fog. Although Ship in Fog portrays a relatively modest scene—a variety of ordinary craft in a sizable but not major port at the end of a late-summer day—what makes the painting extraordinary is Lane’s ability, unsurpassed in American art, to impart a resonant grandeur to such moments, as if to impress them both in time and for all time.”

We congratulate Princeton on their extraordinary acquisition.

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