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'A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence' Opens at The Block Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
“How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence?” asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting later this month at The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long ...
Palmer Museum of Art Exhibition Examines Evolution of Abstraction in the 1940s
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
A captivating new exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State considers how some of the most provocative midcentury artists made the leap from figuration to abstraction. A Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s features major works by Suzy Frelinghuysen, Arshile Gorky, Paul Keene, Lee ...
Hudson River School Landscapes On View Alongside Frederick Law Olmsted Bicentennial Events
ArtfixDaily / January 18th, 2022
Connecticut's New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) will present The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society, January 28 to May 22, 2022, concurrent to the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted's birth in April, to examine the overlaps of ...
Long Overlooked, Leading 20th-Century American Artist Doris Lee Is Celebrated Once Again in Traveling Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 18th, 2022
Pennsylvania's Westmoreland Museum of American Art premiered Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee, which is now set to travel to three other museum venues as part of a national exhibition tour. The Westmoreland’s Chief Curator, Barbara L. Jones partnered with Melissa Wolfe, Curator of ...
'Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism' Opens at the McNay Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2022
Opening Friday, January 21, at the McNay Art Museum, in San Antonio, Texas, Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism presents a wide-ranging view of the American Modernist movement through 65 diverse artworks from the McNay’s permanent collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the ...
ARTFIXdaily Temporarily Closed This Week; Coming Up: Milton Avery Retrospective Travels
ArtfixDaily / January 9th, 2022
(ARTFIXdaily e-newsletter service will resume on January 17, 2022.) Beginning in Hartford, Connecticut, in the early 1900s, American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965) forged a staunchly independent path as an artist. Today, Avery is celebrated as a preeminent modern painter and one of the ...
New Museum to Show the First Full Retrospective in New York of Faith Ringgold This February
ArtfixDaily / January 6th, 2022
From February 17 to June 5, 2022, the New Museum will present the first full retrospective in New York of the art of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY). Bringing together over sixty years of work, “Faith Ringgold: American People” provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of ...
Lennart Anderson Retrospective Travels to Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut, Then Heads West
ArtfixDaily / January 5th, 2022
When you look at nature from a distance, you can see how it all fits together. There is a harmony, and that is what interests me. - Lennart Anderson After a fall run at the New York Studio School, Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective is on view at the Chauncey Stillman Gallery - Lyme Academy ...
'His brush makes the quietest—the bleakest—places the most alluring;' Chiura Obata Works Acquired by Utah Museum
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
Thirty-five works by Chiura Obata, one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century, are now in the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah—thanks to a generous gift from the ...
Wayne Thiebaud, Iconic California Painter, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
I think art is probably our saving grace. It can almost ignore our animal premise and spirits. It’s worth investing in as many deeply involved people as we can muster because I think that’s where our hopes lie: in giving us a life of pleasure, challenge, comfort, joyousness—all of the things that ...
Peter Lynch Donates More Than $20 Million in Art to Boston College
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2022
Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company and trustee associate at Boston College, has gifted 27 paintings and three drawings—worth in excess of $20 million—from his and his late wife Carolyn’s private art collection to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, ...
Norton Museum of Art to Exhibit Jane Peterson Works Alongside 'From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen'
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2021
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, will open From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen (December 10, 2021 – May 1, 2022), featuring major oil and watercolors from American artists in the late 19th- to mid 20th-centuries, gifted to the Norton in 2020. The ...
Broad Range of Contemporary & Antique Items In Schwenke Auctioneers December 12th Holiday Fine Estates Auction
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2021
Woodbury, CT – On Sunday, December 12th Schwenke Auctioneers offers over 485 lots of estate fine and decorative arts sourced from multiple estates and collections in the tri-state area. The 11:00 am online sale will be broadcast live on Invaluable and Live Auctioneers. Absentee and phone bidding ...
2022 USPS Stamps Honor Black Sculptor Edmonia Lewis and Ojibwe Modernist Painter George Morrison
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2021
The United States Postal Service (USPS) will release new FOREVER stamps in 2022 featuring two noteworthy American artists of color. USPS noted in a statement, "One of the nation’s greatest modernist artists and a founding figure of Native American modernism, George Morrison (1919-2000) ...
Alma Thomas Painting Features in The White House Bedecked for 2021 Holidays
See photos of 2021 White House Holiday Decorations / December 1st, 2021
First Lady Jill Biden unveiled the 2021 White House holiday decorations on Monday with the theme, “Gifts from the Heart.” Decor was chosen to reflect values that “tie together the heart strings of our lives,” explained Biden, including peace and unity, the arts and learning, nature and gratitude, ...
$125 Million Gift to Met Museum Kick-Starts Modern Art Wing Transformation
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a lead donation of $125 million, the largest capital gift in the museum's history, to overhaul its modern and contemporary art wing. Donors Oscar L. Tang, a Met trustee, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, an art historian and archaeologist, will ...
Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. On view at ...
'An American Place' Exhibition Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State
ArtfixDaily / November 24th, 2021
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a leading university art museum in 2022 with a rich array of exhibitions, programs and events throughout the year. The festivities will be bookended by captivating exhibitions that spotlight the Palmer’s outstanding ...
Toomey & Co. Dec. 2 Auction to Feature Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Weed Holder and Rediscovered Alphonse Mucha Painting
ArtfixDaily / November 28th, 2021
Oak Park, IL — Toomey & Co. Auctioneers’ December 2 Art & Design sale will feature a rare and important museum quality weed holder by Frank Lloyd Wright. The vase is one of 11 known examples, with others found in the collections of prestigious museums such as ...
From Grandma Moses to Jamie Wyeth, Freeman's American Art Week Is Led By Marquee Names From Single-Owner Collections
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
This December, Freeman’s presents American Art Week, a unique collector’s opportunity featuring three back-to-back sales of American painting, prints, sculpture, and works on paper. American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz begins at 2pm on ...