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Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect

Brandywine River Museum of Art June 24 through September 17 , 2017    Seattle Art Museum  October 19, 2017 through January 15, 2018 Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect , a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of iconic works by this master painter, commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth. It will include over 100 works spanning his entire career, from the early works that quickly established his reputation to his final painting, Goodbye , completed months before his death in 2009. The Brandywine is the only East Coast venue for the exhibition and the only location where visitors can immerse themselves in the world of Wyeth through tours of his studio and Kuerner Farm. Public tours of these locations add insight to his work offering an intimate look at the personal space of this very private artist and an opportunity to see the farm, which inspired nearly 1,000 works of art. Wyeth’s life extended from World War I—a period that sparked the imagination of the artist as a young boy

México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde

Dallas Museum of Art March 12 through July 16, 2017 Diego Rivera, Juchitán River (Río Juchitán), 1953–1955, oil on canvas on wood, Mexico, INBA, Museo Nacional de Arte © 2017 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This March, the Dallas Museum of Art , in collaboration with the Mexican Secretariat of Culture, hosts the exclusive U.S. presentation of México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde , a sweeping survey featuring almost 200 works of painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and films that document the country’s artistic Renaissance during the first half of the 20th century. Curated by Agustín Arteaga, the DMA’s new Eugene McDermott Director, and the result of a combined cultural endeavor between Mexico and France, this major traveling exhibition showcases the work of titans of Mexican Modernism alongside that of lesser-known pioneers, including

French Painting at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Glyptotek, Copenhagaen From 19th March, 2017 Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin… the Glyptotek’s collection of French painting contains works by some of the greatest figures in art, just as it covers one of the most hectic epochs in art history. With over 200 works the exhibition displays the artistic diversity, which poured forth from France in the years 1809-1950. Through an original presentation of famous masterpieces and rarely seen major works the exhibition presents a visual narrative of 150 years of art which never manages to put down roots, and, for the same reason, is suffused with intensity and invention. The Art Superpower From the Romantic Period up to the Second World War France was the meeting point for the most innovative vanguard of artists. The accelerating modernity and cultural broad-mindedness of Paris as well as the attraction of rural settings in the provinces was the perfect climate for the most pioneering European avant-garde. The exhi

American Artists in Europe: Selections from the Permanent Collection

  The Hyde Collection February 28 through June 11, 2017   Childe Hassam’s ‘Geraniums,’ painted in 1888/89, is part of The Hyde’s permanent collection and one of the work’s featured in its current show. When Childe Hassam returned to the United States after living in Paris for three years, he brought with him an American form of Impressionism. His Hyde House favorite Geraniums will be exhibited — along with the works of other American artists who found inspiration overseas — in  American Artists in Europe: Selections from the Permanent Collection, which open ed Tuesday, February 28, in The Hyde Collection's Whitney-Renz Gallery. The featured works are drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, highlighting American artists inspired by their travels. "Americans go as students or as established artists, but they both come back with distinctly American versions of movements they encountered in Europe," said Jonathan Canning, Curator of The Hyde. Forebodings by Win

William Eggleston Los Alamos

FOAM, Amsterdam 17 March – 7 June 2017 The American photographer William Eggleston (1939, Memphis Tennessee, US) is widely considered one of the leading photographers of the past decades. He has been a pioneer of colour photography from the mid-1960s onwards, and transformed everyday America into a photogenic subject. In William Eggleston – Los Alamos, Foam displays his portfolio of photographs that were taken on various road trips through the southern states of America between 1966 and 1974. The exhibition includes a number of iconic images, amongst which Eggleston’s first colour photograph. William Eggleston, En Route to New Orleans, 1971–1974, from the series Los Alamos, 1965–1974 © Eggleston Artistic Trust 2004 / Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London Los Alamos starts in Eggleston’s home town of Memphis and the Mississippi Delta and continues to follow his wanderings through New Orleans, Las Vegas and south California, ending at Santa Monica Pier. During a road trip with writer a

Calm and Exaltation. Van Gogh in the Bührle Collection

4 March to 17 September 2017 Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles       The exhibition Calm and Exaltation. Van Gogh in the Bührle Collection presents eight paintings by Vincent van Gogh. This selection allows us to see not only the different phases in the Dutch artist’s career, but also the vision of a collector, the Swiss industrialist Emil Bührle (1890–1956), for whom it was crucial that his collection should convey the stylistic development of each artist represented within it. Thus the thread running through his dazzling acquisitions of works by Van Gogh is the lightening and brightening of Vincent’s palette and his synthesis of different influences in his art.  The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles has been granted the loan of six canvases from the Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection, Zürich, which holds in all seven works by Van Gogh.  These six canvases are presented here alongside two other loans.  The Old Tower (1884)  and Peasant Woman, Head (1885)  are early works painted in the

Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns

McNay Art Museum  March 1 to June 4, 2017 The McNay Art Museum is proud to present Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns (March 1 to June 4, 2017) in its newly reconfigured Tobin Exhibition Galleries. Curated by McNay Director Richard Aste and Brooklyn Museum Curator of European Painting and Sculpture Lisa Small, the exhibition includes nearly 60 paintings and sculptures from Brooklyn’s renowned European art collection as well as selections from the McNay’s prized holdings. “Bringing Brooklyn’s French collection to the McNay is a reunion decades in the making,” says Aste. “Our founder, Marion Koogler McNay, was a visionary collector. Putting her keen collecting eye back on a par with those of her mostly male peers at the Brooklyn Museum, one of the nation’s pioneering art institutions, is powerful, appropriate, and long overdue.” At the McNay, Monet to Matisse i s organized by René Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art, and Heather L