Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), Hagar, 1875. Carved marble. Gift of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 1983.95.178. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Ongoing
Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone
Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA
Georgia Museum of Art and Peabody Essex Museum partner in a major exhibition exploring Edmonia Lewis’ place in abolitionist and feminist visual cultures.
www.pem.org
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Ongoing
Cropsey, Wyeth, and the American Landscape Tradition
Brandywine Museum of Art • Chadds Ford, PA
The museum hosts this exhibition surrounding a newly discovered Jasper Francis Cropsey piece, and how it influenced the work of Andrew Wyeth.
www.brandywine.org
Ongoing
Enduring Beauty: John Hafen and the Power of Art
Springville Museum of Art • Springville, UT
This landmark exhibition highlights the life and career of John Hafen, a founding member of the Springville Museum and is a central figure in the Springville art movement.
www.smofa.org
Ongoing
Touring the Landscape: Art, Travel, and the Shaping of American Identity
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens • Jacksonville, FL
This is a student-curated exhibition that examines how late-19th and early-20th century artists explored American identity here and abroad through landscape painting.
www.cummermuseum.org
Ongoing
Gertrude & Friends: The Wisconsin Magic Realists
Milwaukee Art Museum • Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum presents an exhibition of the Wisconsin magic realists, led by painters John Wilde and Karl Priebe, a dear friend of Gertrude Abercrombie.
www.mam.org
Ongoing
John Sloan’s Street Theatre
Brandywine Museum of Art • Chadds Ford, PA
Presented are 42 of Sloan’s prints, stemming from a generous donation, highlighting the artist’s “street theater” or studies of everyday life in urban environments.
www.brandywine.org
Ongoing
MAINE: A Force Within American Art (1890–2026)
Farnsworth Art Museum • Rockland, ME
This landmark exhibition exploring Maine’s impact on the art world opens at the Farnsworth Art Museum, drawing primarily from the museum’s permanent collection.
www.farnsworthmuseum.org
Ongoing
A Brief History of Illustration: The Abyss
Norman Rockwell Museum • Stockbridge, MA
The Abyss aims to demonstrate the vast complexity of illustration, while simultaneously illustrating something vastly complex: the ocean.
www.nrm.org
Ongoing
For Which it Stands…
Fairfield University of Art Museum • Fairfield, CT
This exhibition will feature more than 70 works by diverse artists across art movements from the early 20th century to the present day, focusing on depictions of the American flag.
www.fairfield.edu/museum
Through March 2
Great Lakes Modernism: Reginald Baylor
Lily Pad West • Milwaukee, MI
This exhibition of six new paintings that reimagines the visual vocabulary of American modernism through Baylor’s distinctive lens of Great Lakes regional identity.
www.lilypadgallery.com
March 6-May 10
Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen
Helicline Fine Art • New York, NY
The exhibition draws from a wide range of performance traditions, including Broadway and musical theatre, underscoring the enduring dialogue between fine art and entertainment.
www.heliclinefineart.com
Through March 15
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
March 20-22
The Charleston Show
Charleston Festival Hall • Charleston, SC
For its fifth edition, the Charleston Show presents antique lovers with an unparalleled collection of antiquities, jewelry fine and contemporary design.
www.thecharlestonshow.com
Through March 29
A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929
Westmoreland Museum of American Art • Greensburg, PA
This exhibition explores how early 20th-century women sculptors redefined representations of the female body.
www.thewestmoreland.org
Through March 31
Paul Keene and African American Experience
J. Kenneth Fine Art • Shelburne, VT
In conjunction with Black History Month, the gallery presents its winter exhibition featuring Paul Keene’s abstract works of the late 1950s.
www.jkennethfineart.com
Through April 5
Nicolai Fechin: An Artistic Journey
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art - University of Oklahoma • Norman, OK
This exhibition focuses on how a lifetime of travel, as well as his family, friends and training influenced Fechin’s work.
www.ou.edu/fjjma
Through April 5
Jazz Age Illustration
Norman Rockwell Museum • Stockbridge, MA
Featuring more than 120 original works by the era’s most influential illustrators, this exhibition captures the sights, sounds and spirit of a nation in transition.
www.nrm.org
April 12, 2026-Sept. 5, 2027
A Nation of Artists
Philadelphia Museum of Art & Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Philadelphia, PA
Both institutions collaborated to present 1,000 works of the most expansive presentation of American art ever mounted in Philadelphia.
www.visitpham.org, www.pafa.org
Through April 19
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
High Museum of Art • Atlanta, GA
The High Museum presents a major retrospective for mid-20th-century artist Minnie Evans.
www.high.org
April 23-26
Pennsylvania Antiques Show
Valley Forge Casino Resort Convention Center • Prussia, PA
This new event highlights Americana as well as folk art, garden antiques, French, Dutch, English and Chinese decorative arts along with standout pieces of 20th-century art and design.
www.historictrappe.org/pennsylvania-antiques-show
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Jeanette Shepherd Harrison Loop (1840–1909), Julia Haring White, 1897. Oil on canvas. Mattatuck Museum, Gift of H. Wade White, 1970; 70.17.2.
April 26-August 16
About Face: 250 Years of American Portraits
Mattatuck Museum • Waterbury, CT
This exhibition showcases around 60 works, exploring America’s history and the diverse realities of its populace through the art of portraiture.
www.mattmuseum.org
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Through April 26
Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Muscarelle Museum of Art • Williamsburg, VA
This new exhibition spotlights nearly 50 paintings by 32 women artists who helped grow abstract expressionism during the movement’s formative years in the late 1930s.
muscarelle.wm.edu
May 14-16
30th Annual IAC American Art Conference
Heritage Auctions • New York, NY
Initiatives in Art and Culture presents the 2026 conference, Boundless Horizons, revisiting the notion of the “horizon,” a concept central to American cultural identity and American Art.
www.artinitiatives.com
May 16-19
The American Art Fair
Bohemian National Hall • New York, NY
Now in its 19th year, the art fair presents hundreds of American 19th- and 20th-century landscapes, portraits, still life, illustration art and sculpture offered by 18 galleries and specialists.
Auctions at a Glance
March 11
Fine Art Auction
Leland Little Auctions • Hillsborough, NC
www.lelandlittle.com
March 12
19th & 20th Century Art
Swan Auction Galleries • New York, NY
www.swanngalleries.com
March 21
March in Montana Auction and Dealer Show
Great Falls Elks Club • Great Falls, MT
www.marchinmontana.com
April 2
African American Art
Swan Auction Galleries • New York, NY
www.swanngalleries.com
April 7
Art of the American West
John Moran Auctioneers • Monrovia, CA
www.johnmoran.com
April 10-11
Scottsdale Art Auction
Scottsdale Art Auction • Scottsdale, AZ
www.scottsdaleartauction.com
April 16
Modern American Art
Christie’s • New York, NY
www.christies.com
April 21
Illustration Art Signature Auction
Heritage Auctions • Dallas, TX
www.ha.com
April 28
The Art of Al Hirschfeld II - Property from the Margo Feiden Archive Illustration Art Showcase Auction
Heritage Auctions • Dallas, TX
www.ha.com
April 30
Spring Fine Art Auction
Shannon’s • Milford, CT
www.shannons.com
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