Art Show Calendar

the Best Fairs, exhibitions and Events Coast to Coast

May 10-13: The American Art Fair — Bohemian National Hall • New York, NY, Now in its 18th edition, the art fair offers the public hundreds of rare American art works by 17 noteworthy specialists. www.theamericanartfair.com4 Julie Hart Beers (1835-1913), River Landscape. Oil on canvas, 11¼ x 17½ in., signed lower right. Courtesy of Hawthorne Fine Art.

Ongoing
Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870-1930
Farnsworth Art Museum • Rockland, ME

The museum showcases the artistic lives of nine women artists who lived and worked in Maine in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Ongoing
Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts
New Mexico Museum of Art • Santa Fe, NM
This new exhibition, developed by the Vilcek Foundation in collaboration with the Bates College Museum of Art, explores the work of the modernist artist, Marsden Hartley.
www.nmartmuseum.org

Ongoing
Inked Impressions: Etchings in the Age of Whistler
Delaware Art Museum • Wilmington, DE
This significant exhibition tracks the history of etching, made popular by Whistler, from Europe to the United States through 46 artworks.
www.delart.org

Ongoing
Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of a Nation
Virginia Museum of History & Culture • Richmond, VA
The museum launches the nation’s first major exhibition to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, featuring artifacts, symbolic objects and art, alongside Virginians who played important roles.
www.virginiahistory.org

Ongoing
Surrealism and Modernism, Highlights from the Collection
Wadsworth Museum of Art • Hartford, CT
The museum highlights a new installation that presents European and American artworks in dialogue, allowing for new juxtapositions and fresh insights.
www.thewadsworth.org

Through May 4
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

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

May 8-10
American Art Conference
Heritage Auctions • New York, NY
Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 29th annual conference brings together an impressive roster of scholars, curators and artists at the forefront of critical inquiry in the field.
www.artinitiatives.com

Through May 17
Common Ground: Early 20th-Century Artist Communities in Southern California
UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art • Irvine, CA
The exhibition 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/

Through May 18
The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison • Madison, WI
The 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

Through May 25
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

Through 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

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

Through June 1
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

Through June 8
Modern Women: Georgia O’Keeffe and Kay Sage
Mattatuck Museum • Waterbury, CT
Modern Women showcases Kay Sage alongside Georgia O’Keeffe, exploring nearly 50 artworks, as well as photographs, and objects and ephemera from Sage’s estate.
www.mattmuseum.org

Through June 8
Marvin Cone: Painter
Figge Art Museum • Davenport, IA
Celebrating the career of Cone, this exhibition features carefully curated works from the museum’s permanent collection, and key pieces on loan from the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
www.figgeartmuseum.org

June 12-September 14
(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art • Hartford, CT
This collaborative exhibition among four participating museums, brings together the unexpected to explore the American landscape past and present.
www.thewadsworth.org

Through June 15
Andrew Wyeth: Human Nature
Brandywine Museum of Art • Chadds Ford, PA
Featuring rarely seen paintings and drawings, this exhibition explores Wyeth’s figurative art and portraiture.

www.brandywine.org

Through June 22
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

Through June 30
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