Featured Museums & Exhibitions

CALIFORNIA

1. Langson Intitute and Museum of California Art: Irvine
Through September 9
Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California’s Natural Resources
t: (949) 476-0003; www.imca.uci.edu

2. Laguna Art Museum: Laguna Beach
Through September 24
Joseph Kleitsch: Abroad and At Home (pg. 78)
t: (949) 494-8971; www.lagunaartmuseum.org

3. Editor’s Pick: Oceanside Museum of Art: Oceanside
Through November 5
Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection (pg. 44)
Drawn from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, this exhibition features works created during the years between the American stock market crash of 1929 and World War II.
t: (760) 435-3721; www.oma-online.org

COLORADO

4. Editor’s Pick: Denver Art Museum: Denver
November 12, 2023- March 3, 2024
All Stars: American Artists from the Phillips Collection
With works by more than 50 artists this landmark show explores American art from the birth of the modernist spirit into the 21st-century, with artists exploring what connects us as humans.
t: (720) 865-5000; www.denverartmuseum.org

CONNECTICUT

5. Florence Griswold Museum: Old Lyme
September 30, 2023- January 28, 2024

Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette
t: (860) 434-5542; https://florencegriswaldmuseum.org

5. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Hartford
Ongoing
Surrealism and Modernism, Highlights from the Collection
t: (860) 278-2670; www.thewadsworth.org

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

6. Editor’s Pick: National Gallery of Art: Washington, DC
November 19, 2023- March 31, 2024
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
This exhibition features more than 100 examples Rothko’s works on paper, from early figurative and surrealist works to soft-edged rectangular fields, many on view for the first time.
t: (202) 737-4215; www.nga.gov

FLORIDA

7. Rollins Museum of Art: Winter Park
September 9, 2023- January 7, 2024
American Visions: Recent Additions to the Collection (pg. 80)
t: (407) 646-2526; www.rollins.edu

8. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum: Winter Park
September 16-February 25, 2024
Fascinating Clutter: Finding Identity during the Reign of Victoria, Morse Museum (pg. 58)
t: (407) 645-5311, www.morsemuseum.org

MAINE

9. Colby College Museum of Art: Waterville
Through October 22
Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (pg. 68)
t: (207) 859-5600; museum.colby.edu/

9. Farnsworth Museum: Rockland
Through October 29
Alvaro’s World: Andrew Wyeth and the Olson House (pg. 64)
t: (207) 596-6457; www.farnsworthmuseum.org

MASSACHUSSETTS

10. Cahoon Museum of Art: Cotuit
Through October 1
Refreshments at the Sea: American Artists on Cape Cod
t: (508) 428-7581; www.cahoonmuseum.org

10. Editor’s Pick: Museum of Fine Art Boston: Boston
October 8, 2023-January 15, 2024
Fashioned by Sargent (pg. 38)
Alongside approximately 50 of Sargent’s paintings, over a dozen period garments and accessories shed new light on the relationship between fashion and this beloved artist’s creative practice.
t: (617) 267-9700; www.mfa.org

10. Norman Rockwell Museum: Stockbridge
Through November 5
Tony Sarg: Genius at Play
t: (413) 931-2221; www.nrm.org

Editor’s Pick: New Bedford Whaling Museum: New Bedford
Through December 3, 2023
The Cultures of Seaweed (pg. 50)
This exhibition features more than 125 works from over 30 lenders, is inspired by Thoreau’s musings, and explores the allure of this oceanic “produce” from about 1780 to today.
t: (508) 997-0046; www.whalingmuseum.org

NEW YORK

11. Editor’s Pick: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through July 21, 2024
New York Art Worlds, 1870-1890
Drawn from the museum’s collection, a selection of some 50 works in varied media, reveals the vibrant modern art world that emerged in New York in the post-Civil War years.
t: (212) 535-7710; www.metmuseum.org

11. Editor’s Pick: MoMA: New York
Ongoing
Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett (pg. 76)
Showcasing Lawrence’s Migration Series and Catlett’s The Black Woman series for the first time ever at MoMA, the exhibition highlights the importance of the African American perspective.
t: (212) 708-9400; www.moma.org

NEVADA

12. Nevada Museum of Art: Reno
October 14, 2023-May 4, 2024
End of the Range: Charlotte Skinner in the Eastern Sierra (pg. 82)
t: (775) 329-3333; www.nevadaart.org

NORTH CAROLINA

13. Mint Museum Uptown: Charlotte
September 16, 2023– February 25, 2024
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design (pg. 58)
t: (704) 337-2000; www.mintmuseum.org

14. Asheville Museum of Art
t: (828) 253-3227; www.ashevilleart.org (pg. 37)

OKLAHOMA

15. Philbrook Museum of Art: Tulsa
Through June 9, 2024
Wyeths: Textures of Nature (pg. 72)
t: (918) 748-5300; www.philbrook.org

PENNSYLVANIA

16. Editor’s Pick: Brandywine Museum of Art: Chadds Ford
Through September 24
Joseph Stella: A Visionary Nature
The last stop on its year-long tour, it’s your last chance to experience the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on Joseph Stella’s flora and fauna subjects, and the complexity and spirituality driving those works.
t: (610) 388-2700; www.brandywine.org

17. Editor’s Pick: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphia
Through October 29
The Artist’s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia
The museum presents portraits inspired by James Abbott McNeil Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Mother.
t: (215) 763-8100; www.philamuseum.org

18. Reading Public Museum: Reading
Through January 7, 2024
Estate of Dr. Luther W. Brady, Jr. (pg. 84)
t: (601) 371-5850; www.readingpublicmuseum.org

TEXAS

19. Editor’s Pick: Amon Carter Museum of American Art: Fort Worth
Through January 7, 2024
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury (pg. 60)
Amon Carter presents a new exhibition on sculptor Louis Nevelson, whose works featuring discarded bits of wood furniture and other material have captivated audiences for nearly a century.
t: (817) 738-1933; www.cartermuseum.org

UTAH

20. Brigham Young University Museum of Art: Provo
Through 2024
From the Vault: American Highlights and Recent Acquisitions
t: (801) 422-8287; moa.byu.edu

VIRGINIA

21. Chrysler Museum of Art
December 8, 2023-March 10, 2024
A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art
t: (757) 664-6200; www.chrysler.org

WASHINGTON

22. Seattle Art Museum: Seattle
November 8, 2023-August 4, 2024
Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection
t: (206) 654-3137; www.seattleartmuseum.org