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September 6, 2024-January 5, 2025
The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917
Yale University Art Gallery • New Haven, CT
Yale University Art Gallery examines the vitality and expressivity of the human figure in working studies for large commissions at civic institutions nationwide during a pivotal moment in American history.
artgallery.yale.edu See our coverage on Page 48. 

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1877-78. Oil on canvas, 351⁄4 x 511⁄8 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.18.

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Through September 8, 2024
Mary Cassatt at Work
Philadelphia Museum of Art • Philadelphia, PA
This exhibition draws from the museum’s extensive holdings, among them some of Cassatt’s most celebrated paintings and prints, as well as loans from other esteemed institutions.
www.philamuseum.org

Through September 8, 2024
Impressionism 150: From Paris to Connecticut and Beyond
Florence Griswold Museum • Old Lyme, CT
Stemming from the museum’s permanent collection are 50 works that acknowledge American artists’ academic tendencies in the 1870s, and explores those artists’ exposure to impressionism abroad.
www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org

Through September 29, 2024
Drawn to Nature
Amon Carter Museum of American Art • Forth Worth, TX
Organized by the Carter, this exhibition features artworks by 25 artists and celebrates a range of historical, modernist and contemporary works on paper in the Carter’s collection, including drawings, watercolors and prints.
www.cartermuseum.org

Through September 29, 2024
Preservation in Progress: Picturing Immigration
Museum of the City of New York • New York, NY
This exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to witness the restoration of one of the most significant items in the museum’s collection: Samuel Bell Waugh’s massive painting, The Bay and Harbor of New York.
www.mcny.org

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel, 1928. Oil on canvas, 30¼ x 48 in. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, Stephen B. Lawrence Fund, 1958.9.

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Through September 22, 2024
Georgia O’Keeffe:“My New Yorks”
Art Institute of Chicago • Chicago, IL

The institute showcases a lesser-known side of Georgia O’Keeffe that found inspiration in Manhattan.
www.artic.edu

Through September 29, 2024
Forward Together: African American Prints from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection
Honolulu Museum of Art • Honolulu, HI
The exhibition of 50 prints by 25 artists produced over four decades, explores some of the ways in which the artists and workshops represented have shaped the development of not only printmaking, but of 20th-century American art and visual culture.
www.honolulumuseum.org

Through September 29, 2024
Women Artists on Cape Ann 1870-1970
Cape Ann Museum • Gloucester, MA
Drawing from its own collection, the collection of Janet and William Ellery James, and from private collections in the region, this exhibition focuses on women inspired by Cape Ann area from the 1870s through the 1970s.
www.capeannmuseum.org

Through October 13, 2024
Andy Warhol: small is beautiful
Bruce Museum • Greenwich, CT
This exhibition presents close to 100 paintings that delve into the creative mind and process of the major 20th-century artist Andy Warhol.
www.brucemuseum.org

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Through October 20, 2024
All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955
Shelburne Museum • Shelburne, VT
Comprised of 40 works sourced from private and public collections, the exhibition is organized into four thematic sections on how the arrival of trains impacted the visual culture during the rapid industrialization and expansion of the 19th and 20th centuries.
www.shelburnemuseum.org See our coverage on Page 78.

Through October 21, 2024
Honoring Nature: Early Southern Appalachian Landscape Painting
Asheville Art Museum • Asheville, NC
This exhibition explores the sublime natural landscapes of the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina and Tennessee between in the 20s through the 40s.
www.ashevilleart.org

Will Henry Stevens (1881-1949). Untitled, 1944. Pastel on paper. The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. Gift of the Janet Stevens McDowell Trust. 2006.12.5.

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October 26, 2024- February 2, 2025
Southern/Modern
Mint Museum Upton • Charlotte, NC
Southern/Modern celebrates the dynamic evolution of art in the American South from 1945 to the present. This exhibition features over 100 works by both prominent and lesser-known artists, showcasing their contributions to American art history.
www.mintmuseum.org

Through October 27, 2024
Bridgeport at Work: Muralist Robert Lambdin and Bridgeport Brass
Fairfield Museum and History Center
Centering on themes of civic engagement and citizen advocacy, this exhibition offers seven significant pieces by the artist and muralist Robert Lambdin—who initially worked for Bridgeport Brass Company’s advertising department.
www.fairfieldhistory.org

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Through October 27, 2024
Good Impressions: Portraits Across Three Centuries from Reynolda and Wake Forest
Reynolda House Museum of American Art • Winston-Salem, NC
Reynolda House features its impressive portraiture collection for a retrospective of works from the last three centuries.
www.reynolda.org

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Through October 29, 2024
Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory
Olana State Historic Site • Hudson, NY
The dusks and dawns of Frederic Church’s Jamaican landscapes illuminate the nuances of grief in an exhibition at the artist’s former home. Included are also never-before-seen objects from the family.
www.olana.org See our coverage on Page 54.

Through December 1, 2024
Made in PA on Paper
The Palmer Museum of Art • University Park, PA
In tandem with the opening of a new location for the museum, is an exhibition that features 27prints, drawings and watercolors by both artists of renown and those deserving greater attention.
www.palmermuseum.psu.edu

Through December 27, 2024
The Wilderness and the Promise: Landscapes from the Hudson River School Collection
Arnot Art Museum • Elmira, NY
In preparation for a move into a larger, educational gallery space, the Arnot has hung this exhibition, showcasing 20 artworks bookended with works by Thomas Cole and George Wellington Waters. Works from second-generation Hudson River School painters are also included.
www.arnotartmuseum.org

Through December 31, 2024
Selections from the 20th Century Collection
New Mexico Museum of Art • Santa Fe, NM
The New Mexico Museum of Art features the most important and impactful works in its collection, and each artist present has made a significant contribution to the art history of New Mexico and the United States.
www.nmartmuseum.org See our coverage on Page 44.

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Through June 30, 2025
Salon 100
Springville Museum of Art • Springville, UT
The Salon 100 celebrates the museum’s 100th anniversary by featuring 100 paintings and sculptures from the past century, plus a smaller installation of ephemera from the Salon’s early days.
www.smofa.org See our coverage on Page 66.

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Through October 20, 2025
American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art
de Young Museum • San Fancisco, CA
American Beauty focuses on the works of 39 prominent artists, made possible by a substantial gift of paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Bernard and Barbro Osher.
www.famsf.org See our coverage on Page 60.

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