Palazzo Strozzi to show Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists

FLORENCE.- Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence , from 3 March to 15 July 2012, sets out to illustrate the extremely fertile and multifaceted relationship that the painters of the New World established with Florence and other cities in Tuscany between the mid 19th century and the World War 1. After the end of the American Civil War, there was a substantial increase in the number of American artists travelling to Europe , although, [...]

Christie’s to offer American masterworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s will offer a group of paintings formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction at its New York saleroom on November 30, at 10 am. The five works—by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, George Inness and Severin Roesen—are expected to realize upwards of $500,000, collectively. The museum will use these funds to strengthen its collection through the acquisition of a uniquely significant painting by Charles Willson Peale [...]

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Edward Hopper’s Maine

BRUNSWICK, ME.- Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Edward Hopper’s artistic production in Maine between 1914 and 1929. While there has been no shortage of exhibitions devoted to Hopper, very little attention has been paid to the fruitful summers he spent here. Indeed, Hopper summered in Maine nine times, painting and sketching in Ogunquit, Monhegan, Rockland, Cape Elizabeth, Two Lights, and Portland, among other sites. Many of these early plein-air oil paintings have rarely been exhibited. [...]

Florence Griswold Museum Hosts Renowned Collection of American Landscapes

OLD LYME, CONN.- Through September 18, the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme hosts an exhibition of over 40 American landscape paintings from the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum traces the evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism. Some of the artists represented include William Merritt Chase, William Stanley Haseltine, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, John Marin, John Sloan, Ernest [...]

Summer Exhibitions Celebrate Former Frye Director and Alaska Connection

SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum’s summer exhibitions celebrate the tenure of former Frye Director Ida Kay Greathouse, the role that Alaska played in the history of the Museum, and the artwork of Fred Machetanz, who captured the rugged mountains and brilliant light of Alaska. Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute (June 19–September 19, 2010) Honoring Frye Art Museum Past Director Ida Kay Greathouse, the Frye presents Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute, an exhibition of major works of art selected by [...]

First Major Exhibition of Works by Edward Hopper Opens at Fondazione Roma

ROME.- For the first time in Italy, Rome, is set to pay tribute to the entire career of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the 20th century’s most popular and best known American artist, with a major anthological exhibition that is the first of its kind in this country. The exhibition presents more than 160 works, including famous masterpieces such as “Summer Interior” (1909), “Pennsylvania Coal Town” (1947), “Morning Sun” (1952), “Second Story Sunlight” (1960), “A Woman in the Sun” (1961) and various [...]