Worcester, MA.- The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present “Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman”, a selection of prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate an overall shift in the depi…
The New Mexico Museum of Art Shows The Prints of Gustave Baumann
Santa Fe, NM – The New Mexico Museum of Art is presenting two exhibitions this summer celebrating Gustave Baumann, his prodigious creativity, and his love for New Mexico. On view through September 2nd in the Governor’s Gallery at the New Mexico …
Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints a…
Post-War American Art: The Novak/O’Doherty Collection at IMMA
DUBLIN.- An exhibition of 76 artworks by many of America’s leading post-war artists gifted to the IMMA Collection by art historian Barbara Novak and artist Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Ar…
Harn Museum of Art to Present Timely Exhibition “America at Work”
GAINESVILLE, FL.- At a time when the nation is struggling to recover from an economic recession, the Harn Museum of Art presents a timely exhibition examining the American workforce from a previous generation. Opening June 8, America at Work: Art and Propaganda in the Early-20th Century will feature approximately 50 graphic works related to labor issues and demographics, popular culture, immigration trends and national identity during the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition will feature iconic work incentive posters produced by Mather and Company, as well as WPA prints.” “Work is a dominant concern for most Americans today, just as it was during key periods in our past,” said Dr. Rebecca Nagy, director of the Harn Museum of Art. “With America at Work, the Harn is able to connect people with history through works of art and design that remain relevant today. I think our visitors will find these posters