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The Smithsonian American Art Museum organized the nationally traveling exhibition “Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.” Venues Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum; Florida International University, Miami. November 29, 2008- March 1, 2009 Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. June 14-September 6, 2009 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. October 10-January 2, 2010 Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia. November 13- February 5, 2011 Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee. March 19 -June 19, 2011 Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. October 7- January 1, 2012 The exhibition featured 43 key paintings and sculptures by 31 of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s. “Modern Masters” examines the complex and varied nature of American abstract art in the mid-20th century through three broadly conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius—“Significant G...

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site will host the exhibition Master Mentor Master:Thomas Cole & Frederic Churc h from April 30 to Nov. 2, 2014. This newly organized exhibition tells the story of one of the most influential teacher-student relationships in the history of American art – that between the founder of the Hudson River School of painting, Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and his student and successor, Frederic Church (1826-1900). Master Mentor Master: Thomas Cole & Frederic Church will be the first exhibition to explore this seminal moment in American art through the lens of the evolving relationship between Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. Their student-teacher arrangement grew into a life-long friendship between the two families, and later, the two historic sites that bridge the east and west sides of the Hudson River. Church, who became one of the most celebrated artists of the 19th century and later built Olana, was first introduced to the Hudson River Valley as an 18–y...

Venues New York State Museum, Albany May 21 - July 11, 1999 Asheville Art Museum Asheville, NC through Oct. 31 1999 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA through January 23, 2000 Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, November 9, 2000 - January 14, 2001 The dramatic loneliness of an Edward Hopper cityscape and the frantic pace of a John Sloan street corner were among the realistic images displayed as part of In the City: Urban Views 1900-1940 Masterpieces from the Whitney Museum of Art. The turbulence of World War I and the Great Depression fueled American artists as they depicted city life in the first 40 years of this century. Many of the works in the latest exhibition of the series featured the Ashcan School led by Robert Henri. As their figurehead, Henri, encouraged these artists - including Sloan, Everett Shinn and George Luks - to paint urban life as they saw it and to break with the sentimental idealism of academic art. These artists were the first in this country to draw the...

“ African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond ” presents a selection of works by 43 black artists who lived through the tremendous changes of the 20th century. In paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs, the featured artists embrace themes both universal and specific to the African American experience, including the exploration of identity, the struggle for equality, the power of music and the beauties and hardships of life in rural and urban America. “African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond” was on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from April 27 through Sept. 3, 2013. The exhibition was organized by Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the museum. It will travel to additional venues through 2014 following its presentation in Washington, D.C. “This exhibition allows us to understand profound change through the eyes of artists,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director...