An outdoor view of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy Museum of the American Revolution.
Museum of the American Revolution
www.amrevmuseum.org
The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia reopens to the public on September 3, with special access for museum members beginning August 20. New health and safety measures have been implemented for visitors, including reduced capacity, advance online ticket purchasing and enhanced sanitizing and cleaning protocols. From September 3 and onward, the museum will operate during the hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Thursday through Sunday, until further notice. There will also be a range of online programs available for those who would like to stay at home. In addition, the museum’s exhibition When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776-1807, originally set to open in August, will now begin October 2. The exhibition explores the history of the nation’s first women voters in New Jersey following the Revolutionary War.
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Weatherbeaten. Portland Museum of Art, Maine Bequest of Charles Shipman Payson, 1988.55.1.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
www.cartermuseum.org
Opening in December is a major exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The work of famed seascape painter Winslow Homer, is paired alongside legendary cowboy artist Frederic Remington in Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington. This is the first exhibition of its kind to examine the similarities between the two artists’ work, including themes, artistic sensibilities and technical processes. While widely recognized as artists who reinforced an American identity rooted in action, independence and a connection to the outdoors, the correlations between Homer’s and Remington’s works have rarely been considered because of their differences in subject matter.
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Francis H. Gearhart (1869-1958), These Embroidered Hills, ca 1930. Color block print, 12 x 10 in. Wichita Art Museum, Gift of David Thompson.
Wichita Art Museum
www.wichitaartmuseum.org
Frances H. Gearhart: Color Block Prints in Wichita showcases the work of Frances H. Gearhart, one of the foremost color woodcut artists of the early 20th century, known for her dramatic landscapes of the California mountains, deserts and shoreline. The Californian artist’s desaturated color palettes paired with bold compositions lead the way for modern art and design. The exhibition, organized by the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas and guest curated by Roger Genser, is on view through February 14, 2021.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), cast-iron fireplace hood, ca. 1883. Courtesy The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
www.morsemuseum.org
The Morse Museum of American Art’s newly acquired Tiffany cast-iron fireplace hood, circa 1883, will become part of the museum’s Laurelton Hall galleries, which contain the largest repository of art and architectural objects from Tiffany’s legendary estate. The fireplace hood comes from Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s famous Long Island home, and was once thought to be lost to the fire that consumed much of the estate in 1957. The Morse Museum’s installation of the massive fireplace hood, measuring more than 66 inches tall and 55 inches wide, opens October 20.
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Isamu Noguchi at his Long Island City studio, ca. 1960s. 06307 ©INFGM / ARS.
Noguchi Museum
www.noguchi.org
The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City recently announced its line-up of online programs and exhibitions, which includes Noguchi’s Personal Collection happening on Thursday, September 10. Assistant curator Kate Wiener will lead a presentation of selected objects from celebrated Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi’s collectibles, including his personal collection of objects ranging from musical instruments to ancient artifacts from around the world. Noguchi’s collectibles are part of The Study Collection, now digitized in The Isamu Noguchi Archive. —
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