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Sargent and Venice

Venues Adelson Galleries in New York City January 19 through March 3, 2007 Museo Correr, Venice, 24 March/22 July 2007 Sargent and Venice , a spectacular artist’s view of the fabled city, was shown in an exhibition that opened in January 2007 at Adelson Galleries in New York city. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), one of a few truly international artists of the 19th century, had a love affair with Venice: he traveled there numerous times over 40 years. Adelson Galleries in New York, noted for its expertise in American art and the work of John Singer Sargent in particular, has organized an exceptional loan exhibition, Sargent and Venice , comprising of approximately 60 oils and watercolors painted by the artist from the 1880s until 1913. The exhibition was on view at the gallery from January 19 through March 3, 2007 and then traveled to the Museo Correr in Venice —marking the artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in that city—from March 24 through July 22, 2007. A majority of the

Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

Venues The Mauritshuis, The Hague, 4 November 2010 to 30 January 2011 "Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection in America" The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, February 26, 2011 to June 19, 2011   Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, " Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection " July 9, 2011 – October 2, 2011 Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, "Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection," Nov 13, 2011 - Feb 12, 2012 Related exhibition:  Golden Light, Selections from the Van Otterloo Collection The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts August 11, 2012 - May 30, 2014 Following the tremendous public and critical acclaim of PEM's 2011 exhibition,  Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection , the museum is proud to once

The Great War in Portraits

The Great War in Portraits 27 February-15 June 2014, National Portrait Gallery , London      * First national exhibition of the First World War centenary commemorations       * 80 paintings, photographs, sculpture, films and drawings show the human experience of war     * British and German Battle of the Somme propaganda films shown together for the first time     * Portraits of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Edith Cavell, Mata Hari and Winston Churchill     * Works by Beckmann, Kirchner, Orpen, Tonks,  Rosenberg and Epstein     * Portraits of facially injured soldiers by Henry Tonks shown for the first time alongside harrowing medical photographs of the men he depicted The exhibition strikingly brings together for the first time German expressionist masterpieces by Lovis Corinth and Max Beckmann and  Ludwig Kirchner’s painting Selbstbildnis als Soldat(Self-portrait as a Soldier) with Harold Gillies’ rarely shown photographs of facially injured soldiers from the Royal College of S

Anders Zorn at the National Academy Museum, NYC

Venues The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter , November 9, 2013–February 2, 2014, (click on link for lots more information and images) National Academy Museum 1083 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128 February 27 through May 18, 2014 The National Academy presents a major retrospective of Anders Zorn (1860-1920), one of the greatest Swedish painters at the turn of the 20th century. A virtuoso watercolorist, bravura painter, and etcher, Zorn rose from humble beginnings in the Swedish countryside to travel the world, captivate American artists and politicians alike, and paint some of the most-sought after portraits of America’s Gilded Age. Featuring 90 rarely seen works, oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and sculptures, drawn from public and private collections throughout Europe and the United States, this major retrospective, on view February 27 through May 18, 2014, reveals the vibrant artistic personality of Sweden’s master painter. A truly internationa

Renaissance Impressions Chiaroscuro woodcuts from the Collections of Georg Baselitz and the Albertina, Vienna

Royal Academy 15 March—8 June 2014 This exhibition features the beautiful art of Chiaroscuro woodcuts in works from two of the finest collections in the world. Conceived as independent works or based on the designs of the greatest Renaissance artists such as Parmigianino, Raphael and Titian, this pioneering 16th-century printing technique breathed new life into well-known biblical scenes and legends; from Perseus slaying the Medusa to Aeneas Fleeing Troy, and the Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 150 of the rarest and most exquisite examples of this forgotten art form, with a focus on the craftsmanship of its proponents in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, demonstrate how the chiaroscuro method was used to create the first colour prints that make dramatic use of light and dark. Created by established artists for a wider public, they were collected and appreciated both as mementos of famous works in other media and in their own right for their sheer technical brilliance and visual power.