Allentown Art Museum. Fifth and Court Streets, P.O. Box 388. Allentown, PA. 18105- 0388. (610) 432- 4333.

Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. April 22- June 17, 2001.
Modernism and Abstraction shows artists’ aesthetic responses to radical transformations of American life in the twentieth century, from new technology to new political theories. Among the artists included in the exhibition are Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Rauschenberg, and Wayne Thiebaud. Modernism and Abstraction is one of eight exhibitions in Treasurers to Go, from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002.

Ansel Adams Center fro Photography, 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA. 94105. (415) 495-7000.

Stieglitz and His Circle: The Art of Photogravure. April 3-April 29.
One hundred original photogravures of images by Alfred Stieglitz and other pioneering photographers including Eduard Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Paul Strand, and Alvin Langdon Coburn are features in this exhibition which takes the viewer back to the early decades of the 1900s, a dynamic period in the art of photography.

Brandywine River Museum, US Route 1. Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. 19317. (610) 388-2700.

Winslow Homer and His Contemporaries: American Prints from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. March 24- May 20, 2001.
This exhibition covers the course of Winslow Homer’s printmaking career, featuring approximately 70 of Homer’s prints and interpretive panels. Also included in this exhibition are selections from his contemporaries, including J. Alden Weir, James Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Moran, William M. Chase, and Charles A. Platt.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. 11150 East Boulevard. Cleveland, Ohio. 44106.

American Space: Landscape Photography, 1900-1950. January 3- May 23, 2001.
Landscape photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s permanent collection will be featured in this new exhibition. Seventeen prints will be displayed in the show, including images by Alfred Stieglitz, Brett Weston, Ansel Adams, and Edward S. Curtis.

The Columbus Museum. 1251 Wynnton Road. Columbus, Georgia. 31906. (706) 649-0713.

Making Faces: A Selection of Portraits by John Sloan, May 20 - August 19, 2001.
Theatre Lobby Gallery
The Columbus Museum and Kraushaar Galleries have worked together to organize the exhibition and accompanying catalogue. Sloan is known for his inclusion in the group of American artists known as "The Eight" from the early 20th Century. Sloan's portraits comprise a formidable area of his oeuvre but are often overshadowed by his widely recognized paintings of urban life in New York City.

The High Museum of Art. Georgia Pacific Center. 30 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue. Atlanta, Georgia 30309. (404) 733-4437.

Contrasts and Connections: Photographs from the High Museum of Art Collection. April 22, 2000- May 5, 2001.
This selection of highlights from the High’s photography collection samples the diverse ways more than 35 photographers have portrayed similar subjects throughout the medium’s history. George Barnard’s view of a devastated Civil War landscape is compared to the idealized mid-20th century photography of Ansel Adams and further contrasted to critical landscape views by contemporary artists such as Richard Misrach and Robert Adams. Differing approaches to portraiture can be see in the work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Doris Ulmann and Richard Avedon. Edward Steichen’s self-portraits from 1902 and the 1940s provide an interesting study in aging as well as his changed photographic styles. The photographer’s ability to transform ordinary objects through framing, light and focus is evident in Josef Sudek’s delicate study of an apple, Edward Weston’s sensual study of two coupled nautilus shells and Frederick Sommer’s disturbingly surreal still-life juxtaposing a flower and a dried frog carcass.

The Art of William Edmondson. February 24- May 19, 2001.
From Nashville, TN, Edmondson began carving his first limestone sculptures as tombstones and garden ornaments in 1931. He went on to create hundreds of stone sculptures including animals, a mermaid, birdbaths, and portraits of angels, Little Orphan Angels, Eleanor Roosevelt and Christ. This exhibition is the first retrospective of Edmondson’s works in over 17 years, and the first to tour nationally. In 1937, Edmondson became the first African American to have a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New Interpretations of his work will be presented alongside the works of photographers such as Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Consuelo Kanaga, who documented Edmondson’s creations and the process involved. The exhibition shows Edmondson to be an artist inspired by his devout religious convictions, his community, African American folklore and popular culture.

Degas & America: The Early Collectors. March 3- May 27, 2001.
This show is the first museum exhibition to explore the early response to Degas by American critics and collectors. Included in this retrospective show are over 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by renowned French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834- 1917). All works in the show were acquired by leading American collectors and museums at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, and they emphasize that early taste for Degas in America embraced his work in all media and from all periods of his career. Degas’ early academic drawings, his engaging portraits, his celebrated images of the ballet, horseracing and the nude in both oil and pastel, and his more private, experimental investigations of the human figure in prints and sculpture are all well represented in this exhibition.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Smithsonian Institute. Independence Ave. at 7th Street, SW. Washington, DC. 20560- 0350. (202) 357-2700. www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Clyfford Still. June 21- September 16, 2001.
This exhibition of nearly 40 paintings by the artist Clyfford Still (1904- 1980) offers a reintroduction to the artists’s mature style a full half century after it took shape. Focusing on the years 1944 to 1960—a period of radical change for painting in the United States—the exhibition traces Still’s evolution of an expressive abstract idiom in which jagged expanses of color evoke primordial landscapes and a wide range of other associations and emotional states. Still’s explorations on canvas, like those of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and others in his generation—the Abstract Expressionist generation—were viewed as completely independent of previous traditions in Western painting.

Hood Museum of Art. Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire. 03755. (603) 646-2808.

Abstraction at Mid-Century: Major Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 31-June 17, 2001.
This exhibition examines the rich legacy of American art through the groundbreaking works of thirty-six of the best-known American artists working between 1940 and 1970. Paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers, Franz Kline, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, demonstrate bold and diverse approaches to the innovative language of mid-twentieth-century abstraction.

Joslyn Art Museum. 2200 Dodge Street. Omaha, Nebraska. 68102-1292. (402) 342-3300.

An American Anthem: 300 Years of Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art. April 14- June 17, 2001.
Works in this exhibition illustrate the major themes and trends in American art history, from colonial limner paintings to contemporary art. Featured artists include Charles Wilson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Cole, John Frederick Kensett, Frederick Edwin Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Horace Pippin, Robert Rauschenberg, and Chuck Close, among others.

The Poetry of Place: Works on Paper by Thomas Moran from the Gilcrease Museum. June 30-September
23, 2001.
Best known for his portrayals of Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and the Rocky Mountains, Thomas Moran also found inspiration in the landscapes of the Northeast, the Atlantic coast of Long Island, and the castles and cities of Europe. The exhibition presents Moran as an artist-explorer who traveled in pursuit of new motifs and features his sketches from nature, complemented by examples of his studio work.

Painter/Etcher: The American Painter-Etcher Movement. June 9 - September 20, 2001.
Featuring works by Whistler, the Morans, and Turner, among others, this exhibition visually documents the origins and zenith of the American Painter-Etcher Movement, whose members sought to elevate the status of engraving by creating moody, atmospheric images to rival great landscape paintings.



Maier Museum of Art. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. 2500 Rivermont Avenue. Lynchburg, Virginia. 24503- 1526. (804) 947- 8136. www.rmwc.edu/maier

The Legend of John Brown: Prints by Jacob Lawrence. March 10- April 22, 2001.
Lawrence’s The Legend of John Brown portrays in 22 separate scenes the story of John Brown’s fervent commitment to the anti-slavery cause before the Civil War. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Maier will have on display from the permanent collection our own Jacob Lawrence gouache entitled John Brown’s Arsenal (1941).

Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street Waterbury, CT 06702, 203-753-0381.

Images of Contentment: John Frederick Kensett and the Connecticut Shore, opening September 15, 2001.
This exhibit will focus on the paintings the artist created at his home on Contentment Island off the coast of Darien Connecticut between 1868 and 1872. The exhibit will be accompanied by a publication and a series of programs for scholars and for the general public. The exhibit will include nearly 25 paintings created by the artist at this location. Among the lenders to the exhibition are the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey), the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) , the Amon Carter Museum (Texas) and other museums and collectors from across the country. The exhibition, the first to focus exclusively on the distinctive paintings of Contentment Island, will include paintings which had been lost to the public in the recent century.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1000 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York. 10028. (212) 570-3951.

William Trost Richards in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. February 13- May 13, 2001.
The American artist William Trost Richards (1833- 1905) was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Landscapes in oil, watercolor, graphite, and ink from the Museum’s collection of his works are shown with selections from a private collection of Richards’s charming postcard-size watercolors of landscape and marine subjects in Pennsylvania, New England, and the British Isles.

Summer Selections: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropoliatn Museum of Art. May 29- September 2, 2001.
Beginning in 2001 and in succeeding summers, a selection of drawings, watercolors, and pastels from the Museum’s rich collection will be mounted in the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art. Among the artists represented will be John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Winslow Homer, Thomas Easkins, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent.

Mississippi Museum of Art. 201 East Pascagoula Street. Jackson, Mississippi. 39201.
(601) 960-1515. www.msmuseumart.org

Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends. February 3- May 12, 2001.
This exhibition surveys the paintings and works on paper which depict African-American subjects—all close friends of Andrew Wyeth.


The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1001 Bissonnet. Houston, Texas. 77005. (713) 639-7300. http://www.mfah.org

American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art. Through May 27, 2001.
This exhibition features 75 paintings and sculptures by various artists including John Singleton Copley, Daniel Chester French, James McNeill Whistler, Charles Sheeler, and Willem de Kooning. The show functions as a survey of eighteenth to twentieth century American artistic production.

Muscarelle Museum of Art. College of William and Mary. P.O. Box 8795. Williamsburg, Virginia. 23187- 8795. (757) 221- 2700. www.wm.edu/muscarelle

American Twentieth Century Watercolors from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. March 3- April 29, 2001.
The exhibition is comprised of fifty watercolor works dated 1902 to 1962 from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute’s watercolor collection. It features a wide array of aproaches to subject matter and technique, including examples of traditional techniques as well as combinations of unorthodox materials. The show features the century’s most gifted practitioners of the medium. Artists include Edward Hopper, Will Barnet, Charles Demuth, Maurice Prendergast, Reginald Marsh, Everett Shinn, Richard Pousette-Dart, Adolf Dehn, Charles Burchfield, and others.

"Lost" Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition Recreated at Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary. January- May 2001.
Previously unknown historical documents about one of the nation’s most noted artists, Georgia O’Keeffe, will be displayed as part of an unusual exhibition recreating and documenting a "lost" 1938 show of O’Keeffe’s work. This exhibition will include recently discovered O’Keeffe correspondence, photographs, and other historical documents, including a home movie—never before viewed publicly—capturing O’Keeffe on the William and Mary campus to receive an honorary degree in 1938.

National Academy of Design. Museum and School of Fine Arts. 1083 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York. 10128. www.nationalacademy.org

The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore. February 14- May 13, 2001.
The exhibition will feature over 60 works, including paintings and works on paper by Kerr Erby, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, John Twachtman, and Theodore Robinson, and J. Alden Weir, among others, who gathered in the then modest Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut from 1890 to 1920. The exhibition will present Cos Cob as a testing ground for new artistic styles and themes. Several members of the art colony, notably Elmer MacRae and Henry Fitch Taylor, were among the principle organizers of the Armory Show, the landmark exhibition that in 1913 introduced modernist European art to America.

The New York Historical Society. Two West 77th Street at Central Park West, New York, New York 10019. (212) 873-3400, x263.

Out of Time: Designs for the 20th-Century Future, April 14-June 10, 2001.
The 60 works featured in Out of Time explore a hypothetical American future--its modes of transport, fantastic architecture and human settlement in space. Dating from 1889 through 1961, many of the images were commissioned by popular magazines such as Amazing Stories and Life. A number of the original oil paintings, watercolors, and other renderings featured in the exhibition have never before been displayed. As the new millennium begins, Out of Time provides a humorous, yet insightful glimpse of the hope and confidence with which Americans in the first half of the 20th century anticipated the future.


The Newark Museum. 49 Washington Street, P.O. Box 540. Newark, New Jersey. 07101- 0540. (973) 696- 6550. http://www.newarkmuseum.org

Santos: Sculpture Between Heaven and Earth. April 18- July 29, 2001.
This exhibition will feature approximately 45 examples of Puerto Rican polychrome wood sculptures, Santos, images of saints, holy figures, and legends of popular Catholicism produced between 1850 and 1940. This exhibition is on loan from El Museo del Barrio in New York, which owns one of the finest collections of its kind in existence. Most of the Santos del Palo in this exhibit were created by traditional carvers- Santeros- of rural, pre-industrial Puerto Rico. Many of these folk artists remain anonymous, yet their creations continue to speak eloquently about these men and women who, under the conditions of extreme material deprivation, were able to make unique spiritual and artistic statements.

North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh.

A Brush with History. January 27- April 8, 2001.
Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery’s collection, this exhibition showcases the American portrait tradition from the country’s beginnings to the present.

Palmer Museum of Art. The Pennsylvania State University. Curtin Road. University Park, PA. 16802- 2507. www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum

An Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno. February 27- May 13, 2001.
This exhibition examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important American artists of the twentieth century. At first glance, Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno might seem an unlikely pair. Delaney (1901- 1979), a black American from Knoxville, Tennessee, spent most of his mature life as an expatriate artist in Paris. Lawrence Calcagno (1913- 1993), a white American from northern California, spent much of his peripatetic career in the United States and Europe in search of a place to call home. The two became friends in Paris in 1953 and remained close over the next twenty years until Delaney’s deteriorating mental health removed him from his orbit of friends and family. Delaney and Calcagno shared many things in common. Both men committed themselves wholeheartedly to lyrical abstraction. Both men shared an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of their abstract work. Both men experienced the power of melancholia, and both understood well the social isolation accompanying their homosexuality. In honor of the centennial of Delaney’s birth, this show will bring together seventeen works on paper, many of them unpublished, including works dedicated to one another from the Calcagno estate.

History Past, History Present: The Daguerreotype Portrtait in America. Through May 20, 2001.
This exhibition examines the beginnings of portrait photography in the mid-nineteenth century. The themes and issues addressed in this show emerged from research on the first daguerreotype to enter the museum’s collection.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 118 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 19102. (215) 972-7600. www.pafa.org

American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art. June 29- September 30, 2001.
This exhibition features 75 paintings and sculptures by various artists including John Singleton Copley, Daniel Chester French, James McNeill Whistler, Charles Sheeler, and Willem de Kooning. As a survey of eighteenth to twentieth century American production, the Smith effort supplements the holdings of the Academy and highlights both its regional and national character.

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. 830 Fireplace Road. East Hampton, NY. 11937- 1512. (631) 324- 4929. www.pkhouse.org

ROAD: Alfonso Ossorio’s Responses to Jackson Pollock’s Death. May 3- July 28, 2001.
On the evening of Auguest 11, 1956, Jackson Pollock planned to attend a concert at the home of his friend Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990). On the way, however, he changed his mind. Driving back to his house, he lost control of his car and crashed, killing himself and a passenger. This tragedy profoundly affected Ossorio, an artist and collector who had championed Pollock’s work and reflected its influence in his own expressionistic paintings. Several of the works Ossorio painted shortly after Pollock’s death, especially the major canvas entitled "Road," and four related watercolors, contain symbols and motifs that refer to the incident and its emotional aftermath. These pieces, with related paintings and documentary material, will be displayed in the context of Ossorio’s relationship to Pollock.

Jacqueline Lamba: The American Years, 1941-1951. August 2- October 20, 2001
With her husband, Surrealist leader Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba (1910-1993) came to the United States in 1941 to escape Nazi persecution. Not long after her arrival, she divorced Breton and married the sculptor David Hare, a young American follower of the Surrealists. The exhibition—the first solo show of Lamba’s work in this country since 1948—examines her aesthetic development during that period, when her Surrealist impulses were enriched by her experience of Native American art and the nascent New York avant-garde. The show is a part of a larger Lamba retrospective that will travel to Mills College Art Museum in California and the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida. A special issue of Woman’s Art Journal complements the exhibition.

Portland Museum of Art. Seven Congress Square. Portland, Maine. 04101. (207) 775-6148.

America Entertained: Jazz to Jitterbug, Harlem to Hollywood. April 14- June 24, 2001.
Drawn primarily from a group of artworks on long-term loan to the Museum from the writer and jazz enthusiast Jake Wien, this exhibition celebrates the dynamism of America during the early 20th century through World War II, and beyond. Highlights include a major sculpture in golden mahogany by Chaim Gross (Jazz); views of Harlem and its lively performers by Miguel Covarrubias and William H. Johnson, among others; rarely seen vibrant watercolors and drawings of Vaudeville and Broadway by Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer; and amusing drawings by Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Sorel which highlight the cinematic influence of Hollywood on an urbanizing America.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Box 11765. Reynolda Road. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 27116-1765. (336) 725-5325. reynolda@reynoldahouse.org

Reading Portraits through Buttons and Bows. February 22- June 3, 2001.
The clothing that people wear during the painting or photographic shooting of a portrait can give a range of information about the status and taste of the moment. This exhibition will explore American portraits through their fashions, from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.

Seattle Art Museum. P.O. Box 22000. Seattle, Washington. 98122-9700. (206) 654-3158.

Creating Perfection: Shaker Objects and Their Affinities. October 5- April 29, 2001.
Creating Perfection is the first exhibition to explore the unique Shaker style through an examination of the social forces that molded the Shakers’ society and influenced their art. This show will feature 100 three-dimensional Shaker objects, primarily furniture and textiles, and about 40 works on paper presenting aspects of Shaker life. In an adjacent space, 20 contemporary paintings, drawings and sculptures from artists including Carl Andre, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly will demonstrate a common approach in conceiving objects as distilled, perfected ideas.

Speed Art Museum. 2035 South Third Street. Louisville, Kentucky. 40208- 1803. (502) 634- 2700. Info@speedmuseum.org

Jacob Lawrence: The Federick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40. February 13- April 22, 2001.
An African American artist who grew up in Harlem during the Depression, Lawrence began his career around 1935 in the lingering, vibrant atmosphere of the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition features two narrative series executed by the artist in the late 1930s—the Federick Douglass Series and the Harriet Tubman Series, both of which are currently in the collection of the Hampton University Museum. Including 63 images altogether, the narratives document the struggles and heroic achievements of Douglass and Tubman, two renowned nineteenth century abolitionists.

Tennessee State Museum, Nashville.

A Brush with History. May 4- July 1, 2001.
Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery’s collection, this exhibition showcases the American portrait tradition from the country’s beginnings to the present.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 2800 Grove Avenue. Richmond, Virginia. 23221- 2466. (804) 204- 2704.

Narratives in African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection. July 21- September 30, 2001.
This nationally traveling exhibition includes a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and collages from 1870 to 1997 that together cover a wide range of the styles and movements in the history of African-American art. The exhibition also celebrates the vision of Dr. David C. Driskell, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Maryland, who began collecting these works in the 1950s. The exhibition features works by distinguishing artists such as Edward Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, James Van Der Zee, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and Sam Gilliam. The exhibition is organized in thematic sections that raise a wide range of social, historical and aesthetic issues. These include cultural emancipation and assimilation, the New Negro Movement, institutional patronage and mentoring, civil rights and protest, religion and spirituality, and global influences, and identity within the African Diaspora.

Wadsworth Atheneum. 600 Main Street. Hartford, Connecticut. 06103. (860) 278-2670.

Ethiopia Awakening. December 7- June 8, 2001.
From the Civil War to the Great War, black political leaders and thinkers gained some authority and recognition from the nation for their contributions to an emerging America inclusive of the newly free. Their hopes for freedom grew to include options that had been previously unimaginable to most blacks in America: that freedom is best realized through the creation of strong, autonomous communities and institutions. This era spawned the Harlem Renaissance, one of the richest and most provocative artistic movements of black America. The exhibition is the third in a four-part series exploring the changing definitions of freedom throughout the history of African-Americans. Presented by the Amistad Foundation.

Flagging Freedom. June 16, 2001-January 6, 2002.
From World War I through the mid-1970s, the civil rights struggle radically redirected the social trajectory of American history toward access, equity, and inclusion. It also galvanized the most productive period of black visual art since the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition is the last in a four-part series exploring the changing definitions of freedom throughout the history of African-Americans.

The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art. October 19, 2001-January 6, 2002.
For many artists of the last century, the circus was a subject filled with metaphoric possibility. American artists fascinated by the spectacle beneath the big top included George Bellows, Alexander Calder, John Steuart Curry, Charles Demuth, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Everett Shinn from the first half of the century; and Diane Arbus, Rhona Bitner, Lisette Model and Bruce Nauman from the recent past. Featuring nearly 100 works by these artists and many others, this exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and video.

Worcester Art Museum. 55 Salisbury Street. Worcester, Massachusetts. 01609. (508) 799- 4406. Fax: (508) 798- 5646.

Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years. April 1-June 10, 2001.
Although best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of child laborers and immigrants at Ellis Island, the important American documentary photographer Lewis Wickes Hine produced a significant, yet less recognized body of work during the 1930s. This exhibition will present more than 40 prints from the Brooklyn Museum of Art's extensive Hine holdings. The show's strong Depression-era images of machines and adult laborers reveal the photographer's shift in subject matter during the last decade of his life, while underscoring his ability to champion social causes for the working class.