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New This Month in U.S. Museums
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As American As...
Parrish Museum of Art, Southampton, N.Y.
Aug. 1-Sept. 19, 1999
100 works from the museum's permanent collection of American Art.
Curator: Parrish curator Alicia Longwell; guest curator Klaus Kertess.
Funding: Cowles Charitable Trust, et al.
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Yoshida Hiroshi: Japanese Prints of India and Southeast Asia
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Aug. 1-Oct. 17, 1999
32 prints of monuments and sites made by the Japanese artist while traveling with his son in 1931-32.
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French Manuscript Illumination of the Later Middle Ages
J. Paul Getty Museum
Aug. 3-Sept. 26, 1999
Books, leaves and cuttings from 1375 to 1525, including work by the Boucicaut Master, Jean Fouquet and Simon Marmion.
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Thomas Fletcher
Punch bowl
1829 |
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Glimmers of the Past: Presentation Silver from the Collection of the New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society
Aug. 3-Dec. 5, 1999
Pitchers, serving dishes, trophies, dinner services and more, all commemorating historical American events.
Funding: New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Philip Renteria
Sky Mind Triptych II
(one of three)
1989-90 |
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Intrinsic Radiance: The Paintings of Philip Renteria
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Aug. 5-Sep. 12, 1999
Meditations on light via three paintings and more than a dozen works on paper by the late Houston artist (1947-1999), as part of a series honoring the Glassell School of Art faculty.
Funding: Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lahr, Friends of Philip Renteria.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Slightly Open Clam Shell
1926 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
Aug. 6-Oct. 17, 1999
64 still lifes made from 1908 to 1963, exhibited with objects similar to those in the paintings.
Tour: Co-organized by the Phillips Collection and the Dallas Museum of Art, the show next appears at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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Andy Warhol
Happy Bug Day
1954 |
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Andy Warhol Drawings, 1942-1987
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Aug. 8-Nov. 28, 1999
More than 200 works surveying the Pop icon's entire career.
Curators: Walker curators Mark Francis, Dieter Koepplin.
Catalogue essays: Francis, Koepplin.
Tour: The exhibition was organized by the Andy Warhol Museum and the Kunstmuseum Basel, and tours internationally following its premiere at the Walker.
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Girl's 2-Piece Dress
England, c. 1885 |
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The Fashionable Child of the 19th Century
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Aug. 12, 1999-Jan. 17, 2000
An exploration of changing attitudes towards children via 29 children's costumes.
Curator: Dale Carolyn Gluckman, LACMA curator of costumes and textiles.
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Harry Callahan
Seaside, Florida
1987-88 |
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Harry Callahan Photographs
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Aug. 14-Nov. 6, 1999
The beach, the city and grasses in 85 works by the Atlanta artist, including his famed 1992 "Peachtree Series."
Funding: Met-Life, Georgia Pacific Corporation.
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Malick Sidibé
Drissa Balo Wedding Party
1965 |
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Malick Sidibé
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Aug. 14-Nov. 7, 1999
Around 70 black-and-white images of everyday life in Bamako, Mali, in the 1960s and '70s by the African photographer.
Curator: MCA curator Andre Magnin.
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Laylah Ali
Untitled (Greenheads)
1998 |
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Small Aggressions: Works on Paper by Laylah Ali
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Aug. 14-Nov. 7, 1999
The African-American artist addresses images of racial discrimination and stereotyping in pastel-colored cartoon-like images.
Curators: MCA senior curator Francesco Bonami, curatorial assistant Heather Felty.
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Gustave Caillebotte
Skiffs
1877 |
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Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Aug. 15-Nov. 29, 1999
69 landscapes, portraits, interiors and cityscapes in yet another effort to satisfy the public's appetite for late-19th-century French art.
Organized by the National Gallery of Art.
LACMA curator: J. Patrice Marandel.
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C. S. Tarpley
Water Vessel
(Cibola Series)
1997 |
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Head, Heart and Hands: Native American Craft Traditions in a Contemporary World
American Craft Museum, N.Y.
Aug. 19-Oct. 10, 1999
An examination of tribal traditions in contemporary society via 50 examples of pottery, glassware, weaving, painting, sculpture, jewelry, carving and blowing by Native American craft artists.
Curator: Brion Clinkingbeard, curator and director of exhibitions, Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation.
Funding: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
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Modern Masters of Kyoto: Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Aug. 19, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000
19th-and-20th century paintings by Japanese artists who sought to modernize their artistic traditions, calling their work "Nihonga" in distinction from Western-style oil painting.
Guest curator: Michiyo Mmorioka.
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Here's Looking at You: Portraits from the Collections
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
Aug. 20-Dec. 6, 1999
Sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, decorative arts, books and photographs from the Renaissance to the present.
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Transmute
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Aug. 21-Nov. 7, 1999
40 contemporary artworks along with on-site computer kiosks and a web page that allow guests to become virtual curators and artists.
Curator: Joshua Decter, independent curator, critic, theorist and educator.
Funding: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
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Painted with Light: Photographs by the Seattle Camera Club
Seattle Art Museum
Aug. 21, 1999-Feb. 6, 2000
Images from the 1920s and 1930s by such artists as Ella McBride, Frank Kunishige, Kyo Koike and others who promoted their work in the journal Notan.
Curators: Trevor Fairbrother, SAM curator of modern art and deputy director for Art/Jon, and SAM research associate Rock Hushka.
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Francis Bacon
Figure Study II
1945-46 |
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Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Aug. 22-Oct. 24, 1999
50 paintings made between 1933 and 1990 by the British expressionist.
Organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions.
Curator: Dennis Farr, former director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries.
Catalogue essays: Dennis Farr, Sally Yard and Michael Peppiatt.
Tour: The exhibition originated at the Yale Center for British Art, and traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
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Julia Margaret Cameron
The Echo
1868 |
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Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Aug. 27-Nov. 30, 1999
57 vintage prints explore the Victorian construction of femininity.
Curator: Whitney photography curator Sylvia Wolf, previously of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tour: The exhibition originated at the Art Institute of Chicago and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Catalogue essays: Sylvia Wolf, Phyllis Rose, Debra N. Namcoff.
Funding: American Airlines; National Endowment for the Arts.
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Barbara Westover
Summer Home for Stella |
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Dog Haus: Architecture Unleashed
Oakland Museum of California
Aug. 28-Oct. 17, 1999
Doghouses designed by 24 California architects, including one for a dog who lives with a homeless person.
Organized in conjunction with the Oakland SPCA.
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Joe Coleman
The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Harry Houdini)
1995 |
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Joe Coleman
Wadsworth Atheneum
Aug. 29-Nov. 14, 1999
The New York "fringe" artist's first major museum show includes 12 acrylic-on-masonite portraits of criminals, insane people, public figures and himself.
Curator: Nicholas Baume, Wadsworth contemporary curator.
Funding: Lannan Foundation.
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John Singer Sargent
Six Head Studies for "Gassed"
1918-1919 |
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John Singer Sargent, Draughtsman: Works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Aug. 31-Oct. 30, 1999
More than 100 works \from childhood sketchbooks to mural decorations for Boston's Public Library.
Curator: Eric Denker, Corcoran curator of prints and drawings.
Funding: Abby Weed Grey Trust.
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Thomas Davies
Niagra Falls
1759 |
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Putting it on Paper: 200 Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of the New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society
Aug. 31, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000
New York views and portraits of significant New Yorkers by artists who worked primarily in New York.
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