Currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, takes an in-depth look at Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin’s creative process and how he challenged cultural, geographic, and material boundaries. Perhaps best known for his paintings of women in idyllic Tahitian settings, Paul Gauguin was an artist whose career […]
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Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism
On view through July 9, 2017 in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, 6th and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC A scion of a Protestant upper-middle-class family from Montpellier in southern France, Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) seemed destined for a career in medicine. In 1862 he traveled to Paris, […]
Prix de West
Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale runs June 9 through August 9, 2017 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., Oklahoma City, OK The Museum hosts its annual exhibition of more than 300 paintings and sculpture by the finest contemporary Western artists […]
Gary Erbe: 50 Year Retrospective
Gary Erbe: 50 Year Retrospective is on view at The Butler Institute of American Art from May 14 – August 6, 2017 at 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown, OH Gary Erbe is a self-taught painter from Union City, New Jersey. Unable to attend art school, he supported himself and his family […]
The Museo del Prado Exhibit “Treasures from the Hispanic Society of America. Visions of the Hispanic World”
Exhibition on view now through September 10, 2017 in Madrid, Spain The Museo del Prado, with the exclusive support of Fundación BBVA, offers to the public the exceptional opportunity of enjoying more than two hundred works of art from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library founded to promote the art […]
Brooklyn Museum Exhibit “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern”
Visit the Brooklyn Museum for this fascinating exhibition on view now through July 23, 2017, at 200 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned modernist artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona—including her clothing and the way […]