Art Show Calendar

The Best Fairs, exhibitions and Events Coast to Coast

March 15-May 15

America Coast to Coast: Women Artists at Mid Century

CW American Modernism • Los Angeles, CA

The gallery is placing the spotlight on women artists in mid-20th century America, and showcasing 30 works in paint, sculpture, textiles and metalwork.

www.cwamericanmodernism.com

Constance Draper Seely Still (1901-1971), Sea and Land Abstraction, 1936. Oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 20 in.

Ongoing
The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945 (Part Two)
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art • Greensburg, PA
The Great Search is a survey of the period between the Depression and the end of World War II, highlighting the splintered nature of American Modernism.
www.thewestmoreland.org

Ongoing
Tennessee Harvest: 1870s-1920s
Frist Art Museum • Nashville, TN
Part of a companion exhibition, this show features 16 works by 19th- and early 20th-century Tennessee painters who explored food and cultural identity through art.
www.fristartmuseum.org

Ongoing
The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison • Madison, WI
Th exhibition celebrates the legacy of Wharton Esherick, the father of the studio furniture movement, with nearly 70 objects that offer a comprehensive look at his expansive repertoire.
www.chazen.wisc.edu

Ongoing
The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama
Denver At Museum • Denver, CO
This exhibition features more than 40 paintings, exploring Ueyama’s life and his crucial role as an artist and educator at the Granada Relocation Center.
www.denverartmuseum.org

Ongoing
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
Smithsonian American Art Museum • Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian showcases the work of three Japanese-American women artists whose careers were derailed by racial persecution during World War II.
americanart.si.edu

Ongoing
Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection
Norman Rockwell Museum • Stockbridge, MA
Edison Mazda Lamps are celebrated through 16 original artworks exalting the warmth and impact of incandescent light.
www.nrm.org

Ongoing
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • Boston, MA
This large exhibition for Wilson blends culture and politics into works as varied as lithography and paintings, to sculpture and book illustrations.
www.mfa.org

Ongoing
Common Ground: Early 20th-Century Artist Communities in Southern California
UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art • Irvine, CA
This examines artistic communities in Laguna Beach, La Jolla and Los Angeles in the early 20th century and their influence on California plein air painting.
www.imca.uci.edu/

Ongoing
Richard Avedon: Among Creatives
Phoenix Art Museum • Phoenix, AZ
Featuring over 50 Avedon works, this exhibition spans large-scale photographic portraits, as well as examples of Avedon’s early work as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
www.phxart.org

March 9-May 26
Tamara de Lempicka
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • Houston, TX
This is the first U.S. retrospective devoted to Lempicka, highlighting the decisive years from 1922 to 1949 in over 100 works, featuring her celebrated portraits.
www.mfah.org

April 24-27

The Philadelphia Show

Philadelphia Museum of Art • Philadelphia, PA

Now in its 63rd year, the Philadelphia Show features more than 40 dealers from around the country, offering fresh-to-market works across centuries of artwork, antiques and design.

www.thephiladelphiashow.com

John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910), The Indian Hunter, 1860. Bronze, dark brown patina, 161/8 x 151/8 x 9¾ in., signed on base ‘JQA. WARD / 1860.’ Inscribed on base ‘CAST BY THE HENRY BONNARD BRONZE CO. / NEW YORK 1894.’

Through March 15
Juanita Guccione: A Divine Gamble
Lincoln Glenn • New York, NY
A grouping of 18 paintings that comprise A Divine Gamble, largely produced in the 1940s, focus on figures, architecture and arrangement of objects in Guccione’s surrealist style.
www.lincolnglenn.com

March 21-23
The Charleston Show
Charleston Festival Hall • Charleston, SC
Offerings from 30 internationally recognized exhibitors showcase fine traditional and contemporary paintings, works on paper and sculpture, antiques, furniture and so much more.
www.thecharlestonshow.com

Through April 13
The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935-1943
Saint Louis Art Museum • St. Louis, MO
Comprised of 58 objects, the exhibition presents artists from historically marginalized groups, stemming from the museum collection.
www.slam.org

Through April 20
The Ethereal Worlds of Maxfield Parrish
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum • Palm Beach, FL
This exhibit features 25 original artworks and explores Parrish’s ability to create dreamlike worlds that exist somewhere between fantasy and reality.
www.flaglermuseum.us

April 26-27
Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival
Aix La Chapelle Farm • Poolesville, MD
Festival attendees will experience a charming setting where they can browse around 60 dealers presenting furniture, fine art, Americana, folk art and garden décor.
www.midatlanticantiquesfestival.com

Through April 27
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Bruce Museum • Greenwich, CT
Lazzell’s ground-breaking work and life are the subject of the artist’s first solo exhibition in nearly two decades, featuring more than 60 paintings, prints and other works on paper.
www.brucemuseum.org

May 7-10
Initiatives in Arts and Culture: 29th Annual American Art Conference
Heritage Auctions • New York, NY
This year’s American Art Conference is titled Crafting the Dream, and is organized around the relationship(s) between “the dream” and art-making.
www.artinitiatives.com

Through may 25
Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth
Reynolda House • Winston-Salem, NC
Having spent seven decades painting a particular farm, this exhibition tells the story of the connection between artist and place—one of the most enduring connections in American art.
www.reynolda.org