Everett Gee Jackson (1900-1995), Chapala, 1926. Oil on panel, Collection of Charles Butt, © Everett Gee Jackson Estate
Editor’s Pick
Sept. 7, 2025-Jan. 25, 2026
American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection
Amon Carter Museum of American Art • Fort Worth, TX
This exhibition includes paintings and works on paper from the turn of the 20th century through the end of the 1970s and features works by American modernist icons.
www.cartermuseum.org
Through September 14, 2025
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
Through September 14, 2025
(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 September 14, 2025
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
September 19-December 21, 2025
Making a Name for Himself: The Life and Art of F. Edwin Church 1876-1975
Preservation Long Island • Cold Spring Harbor, NY
This exhibition focuses on the life and work of F. Edwin Church, a celebrated 20th-century portrait painter with strong ties to Long Island’s North Shore.
www.preservationlongisland.org
Through September 21, 2025
Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976
Peabody Essex Museum • Salem, MA
This exhibition reinterprets American art through one institution’s iconic collection, spotlighting contributions by Black, women and LGBTQ+ artists.
www.pem.org
September 26, 2025-March 1, 2026
An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles
American Folk Art Museum • New York, NY
This exhibition brings together approximately 30 examples, spanning the 18th to 20th centuries, presenting them from an ecological perspective.
www.folkartmuseum.org
September 28, 2025-March 15, 2026
Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History
The Heckscher Museum of Art • Huntington, NY
Featuring 14 sculptures and archival material, this exhibition is the first to recognize Stebbins as one of the most significant American sculptors of the 19th century.
www.heckscher.org
Editor’s Pick
Through October 5, 2025
Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid
Gibbes Museum of Art • Charleston, SC
The museum presents an immersive exhibition of nearly 50 paintings, sculptures and mixed media work focused on Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid.
www.gibbesmuseum.org
Opens October 14, 2025
Breaking Tradition: Distinguishing American Stained Glass
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art • Winter Park, FL
Breaking Tradition explores this dramatic shift and the ways artists adopted and broke from convention to redefine a centuries-old medium.
www.morsemuseum.org
Susan Watkins (1875–1913), The Morning Room, ca. 1910. Oil on canvas; Mary Whittle Chapman.
Editor’s Pick
Oct. 17, 2025-Jan. 11, 2026
Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
Chrysler Museum of Art • Norfolk, VA
This new exhibition featuring the work of Watkins, explores the challenges of female artists at the turn of the 20th century.
www.chrysler.org
Through October 20, 2025
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
Through October 31, 2025
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
Through November 9, 2025
Ever Present: Romare Bearden and Music
The Mint Museum • Charlotte, NC
This selection of more than a dozen examples, drawn entirely from the museum’s holdings, highlights some of the many ways Bearden explored musical subjects in drawings, prints and collages.
www.mintmuseum.org
Through November 16, 2025
Henry Strater’s Ogunquit
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
This exhibition explores Strater’s love of coastal Maine from his first exposure to the state in 1919 through the following 60 years.
www.ogunquitmuseum.org
Through November 30, 2025
East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art
Amon Carter Museum of American Art • Fort Worth, TX
Featuring 31 artists, East of the Pacific celebrates the longstanding artistic influence of people of Asian descent, as well as their role in shaping American art and culture at large.
www.cartermuseum.org
Through January 4, 2026
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
Through January 4, 2026
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
Editor’s Pick
Through February 1, 2026
American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection
National Gallery of Art • Washington, D.C.
Through a collection of 30 watercolors, this new exhibition explores how a diverse group of artists depicted the landscape across two centuries.
www.nga.org
Through May 17, 2026
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
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