After a successful run at the Butler Institute of American Art, The National Arts Club is overjoyed to be hosting “Spring Rising,” a brilliant exhibition of recent works by this acclaimed painter.

You can find his works in major museums, including the Metropolitan, the Smithsonian, and the British Museum. They’re also in private collections all across the globe. This fall, you can also find Morton Kaish’s work at the National Arts Club in New York City via “Spring Rising,” a representation of more than 30 years of Kaish’s floral and landscape works.

“Critics have noted Kaish’s powerful ability to combine traditional and experimental painting techniques with contemporary insights,” the club writes. “His relish for blazing color, vigorous brushwork, and intricate handling produces paintings that are romantic but never sentimental. Also feature are a series of accomplished etchings and monotypes.”

“Spring Rising” opens October 2 and continues through October 28. To learn more, visit The National Arts Club.

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For a limited time — now through October 29 — the Getty Museum in Los Angeles is exhibiting a rare drawing titled “Study of a Mourning Woman” by this creative genius.

In July 2017, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, made a landmark acquisition of a group of 16 drawings and one painting. One of the drawings is an exceptionally rare study of a woman by Michelangelo Buonarroti, circa 1500. The museum is now exhibiting the drawing to the public through October 29 — its first time on view since being rediscovered in the collection at Castle Howard in 1995. Before then, the drawing had been hidden among other treasures in the family collection, unknown to scholars for hundreds of years.

Timothy Potts, director of the museum, said, “Michelangelo’s drawing is the supernova among a collection of some 16 extraordinarily rare and important drawings recently acquired by the Getty. Michelangelo is rightly regarded as one of the very greatest painters, sculptors, architects, and draftsmen in history, and it was important to me that the people of Los Angeles and other visitors to the Getty have the opportunity to view this exquisite addition to our collection before it is shown elsewhere.”

The museum added, “The drawing represents the pinnacle of a group of pen and ink drawings made early in Michelangelo’s career, at a pivotal moment when his fame as a sculptor was also spreading to dramatic painted compositions. While there is no known Michelangelo project that includes this figure, the design was nevertheless known to a number of the artist’s contemporaries. Examples of figures directly inspired by ’Study of a Mourning Woman’ can be found in a manuscript page in the Farnese Hours by Giulio Clovio (1498-1578), and drawings by Lorenzo Sabatini (c. 1530-1576) and Francesco Salviati (1510-1563).”

To learn more, visit the Getty.

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“Art in Autumn” is a great way for Western fine art collectors to kick off the fall season by considering tasteful pictures by these acclaimed artists. Where?

Located in Polson, Montana, Native American-owned Takes Horse Gallery is presenting works by a number of esteemed artists during “Art in Autumn,” on view October 6 through November 11. Among the artists represented in the exhibition is John Gawne, who is widely known for his arresting images and portraits of Native Americans.

Also on view will be selections by David Dragonfly, DG House, Tabby Ivy, John Pepion, Rachel Warner, and Shannon Webster. To learn more, visit Takes Horse Gallery.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is just about to open a significant exhibition of brilliant masterworks by the most famous artists in art history. You certainly can’t miss this.

Opening October 4 at the Met in New York is “Leonardo to Matisse,” 60 masterpieces of European drawing spanning the Renaissance to the Modern age. Drawn from the Robert Lehman Collection, it is the first presentation to highlight the full range of his distinguished collection, numbering over 700 sheets, and to explore his significant activity as a 20th-century collector. “The exhibition will trace the development of European drawing across five centuries through works by such celebrated masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, Rembrant, Tiepolo, Ingres, Seurat, and Matisse,” the Met reports.

“Drawn from the Museum’s acclaimed Robert Lehman Collection, the exhibition will present a dynamic array of styles, techniques, and genres — from compositional studies for mythological and biblical narratives to panoramic landscapes and arresting studies of the human form. The selection will also illustrate the different facets of the artists’ creative processes — from Leonardo’s keen anatomical observation in his ‘Study of a Bear Walking,’ to Dürer’s awakening artistic self-consciousness in his ’Self-Portrait’ study, to Rembrandt’s re-interpretation of Leonardo’s painted masterpiece ‘The Last Supper.’

“The selection of drawings on view in ‘Leonardo to Matisse’ will reflect significant developments in the medium between the 15th and 20th centuries, as styles, techniques, and genres evolved, evoking illuminating comparisons across regions and eras. The portraits, figure studies, landscapes, mythological, and biblical narratives included in the exhibition will represent diverse sacred and secular subjects in media ranging from metalpoint, pen and ink, and chalk to graphite, pastel, and charcoal.

“The role of drawing as the foundation of all the visual arts will be illustrated by numerous preparatory studies for painting, sculpture, textiles, engraving, and stained glass, including rare 15th century Netherlandish designs for a carved capital and tapestry. Elucidating the varying stages of the design process, the works on view will include rapid preliminary sketches, detailed studies of motifs, expansive compositional designs, and finished drawings intended for patrons.”

“Leonardo to Matisse” continues through January 7. To learn more, visit the Met.

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The Tampa Museum of Art is currently presenting an incredible range of hyperrealist paintings made over the last half-century during a must-see exhibition. However, it’s only up for a few more weeks!

On view through October 22 at the Tampa Museum of Art, “50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting” presents the work of some 30 artists known for their hyperrealistic depictions of ordinary objects and scenes of everyday life. “Art dealer and author Louis K. Meisel coined the term photorealism in the late 1960s to describe large-scale paintings created to look photographic,” the museum writes. “This exhibition features three generations of photorealist painters, including John Baeder, Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Audry Flack, Ralph Goings, Yigal Ozeri, Raphaella Spence, and others.”

To learn more, visit the Tampa Museum of Art.

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