Art Show Calendar

The Best Fairs, exhibitions and Events Coast to Coast

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), Game of Kings, 1947. Oil on canvas. 24 x 36 in. Collection, Illinois. Photo by Michael Tropea.

July 12, 2025-January 11, 2026
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery
Colby College Museum of Art • Waterville, ME
This retrospective exhibition celebrates Gertrude Abercrombie, an artist who has been historically marginalized due to who she was, and how she lived and worked.
museum.colby.edu

Ongoing
Modeling Women: Female Models and Artists at Chesterwood
Chesterwood • Stockbridge, MA
The home and studio of Daniel Chester French reopens with an exhibition exploring the sculptor’s creative relationships between the sculptor and his models.
www.chesterwood.org

Ongoing
Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection
Portland Art Museum • Portland, ME
This exhibition celebrates over a decade of gifts to the museum, reflecting Katz’s deep personal and professional ties to Maine.
www.portlandmuseum.org

Ongoing
John Sloan and His Students
Delaware Art Museum • Wilmington, DE
Featured in this exhibition are paintings, drawings and prints by John Sloan and his students, from the collection of the museum, including works that were in Sloan’s personal collection.
www.delart.org

Ongoing
Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism
Fenimore Art Museum • Cooperstown, NY
Through 43 artworks, this exhibition explores Cassatt and Morisot’s relationship from rocky beginnings in the 1870s to the close friendship that had formed by the 1890s.
www.fenimoremuseum.org

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

Ongoing
(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

Ongoing
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
Smithsonian American Art Museum • Washington, D.C.
Through 82 pieces, the Smithsonian explores how American sculpture has shaped how generations visualize and conceptualize race.
americanart.si.edu

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

American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art
de Young Museum • San Francisco, 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

Ongoing
Friday: The Making of an Icon
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • Houston, TX
This exhibition features over 30 works by Frida Kahlo and more than 120 pieces by artists from the 1970s onward; artists who were driven by her artistic legacy and personal history.
www.mfah.org

July 18-21
The Nantucket Show
Bartlett’s Farm • Nantucket, MA
The Nantucket Show features antiques and fine art from a carefully curated selection of more than two dozen dealers.
www.thenantucketshow.com

Through July 20
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

Through July 20
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

Through July 26
The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1939
Wrightwood 659 • Chicago, IL
Featuring over 300 works of art, this exhibition explores art created after the term “homosexuality” was coined in the late 1800s.
www.wrightwood659.org

James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894), Yachts Racing off Southampton, Long Island. Oil on panel, 7 x 15 in., framed dimensions: 15 x 23 in., signed; also inscribed on the reverse. Courtesy of Rehs Galleries.

July 25-27
The Newport Show
St. George’s School Ice Rink • Middletown, RI
The Newport Show continues its mission of featuring quality antiques, art and objects, while also benefitting local charities.
www.thenewportshow.com

Through July 27
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

Through August 17
Childe Hassam: Impressions in Black and White
Speed Art Museum • Louisville, KY
The Speed Art Museum showcases the black and white prints of Childe Hassam, providing another dimension to our understanding of this significant painter.
www.speedmuseum.org

Through August 17
Revealing F. Edwin Church, American Impressionist
North Shore Historical Museum • Glen Cove, NY
The museum celebrates the life and career of impressionist painter F. Edwin Church, and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the artist’s 1975 retrospective in Locust Valley, New York.
www.northshorehistoricalmuseum.org

Through August 17
Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community
The Cleveland Museum of Art • Cleveland, OH
This exhibition brings together more than 60 prints created by Karamu Artists Inc.—a group that explored the groundbreaking role that the graphic arts played at Karamu House.
www.clevelandart.org

Through August 17
Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art
de Young Museum • San Francisco, CA
This is the first exhibition to spotlight the artist’s extensive engagement with art history throughout his six-decade-long career, offering crucial insights into his creative process.
www.famsf.org —