18th Century Pastel Paintings: “A Sumptuous Feast for the Eyes”
Visit an exhibition that explores the popularity of pastel paintings across 18th-century Europe and showcases their striking physical properties.
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
Presented in a playful installation, "Drawn to Nature" features personal letters, photographs, books, diaries, decorative arts, sketches, and watercolors that explore the inspirations behind Potter’s stories and characters.
Largest Survey of Granville Redmond on View
Learn about “Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette,” a traveling exhibition of some 85 early California landscapes that together comprise the largest survey of the Impressionist painter’s work ever assembled.
Women Painting Women: A New Take
"Women Painting Women" is a title we see often; here is a new take on this important theme through an exhibition of approximately 60 portraits created by 46 women from around the world since the late 1960s.
Touring Exhibition: All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955
Don't Miss > On view are more than 50 works by major artists who witnessed the railroad’s expansion and impact for themselves.
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown
In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism, several avant-garde artists in the San Francisco Bay Area began to reengage with the visible world by ...
Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
The exhibition will explore how artists expressed political messages and ideologies through a range of media, from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to film, dance, decorative arts, fashion, and ephemera. It is on view through ...
JMW Turner: Watercolors from Tate
Mystic Seaport Museum, in partnership with Tate, London, will host a major monographic exhibition devoted to the watercolors of one of Britain’s greatest painters: J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851).
Literary Subjects or Actual People?
Illustrated here is a characteristically sensual painting from the 1860s, when the artist depicted his mistress in ...
A Pair of Leaders
Once again, two leading forces for good in the field of international contemporary realist art will converge in Barcelona this autumn.