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American Gothic ,   the famous American Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum for the first time from Aug. 30 through Nov. 16, 2014.  The masterpiece  joins Wood’s Daughters of Revolution in the exhibition, Conversations around American Gothic.  Daughters Freedom and the Brush: American Painting in the 1930s. Eight classic examples of American Regionalism, an art movement that depicts small town America and the rural Midwest from the late 1920s through the 1930s, by Iowa native Wood and his friends and associates, John Steuart Curry of Kansas and Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, are on display to encourage visitors to consider what these works meant in their own time and what they mean today. In between the World Wars, isolationism led Wood, Curry and other painters to reinvent American art by examining scenes from daily life in the United States. Rejecting abstraction as too “European,” they adopted realism as a national...

This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents  Goya: Order and Disorder , a landmark exhibition dedicated to Spanish master Francisco Goya (1746–1828). The largest retrospective of the artist to take place in America in 25 years features more than 160 paintings, prints and drawings—offering the rare opportunity to examine Goya’s powers of observation and invention across the full range of his work. The MFA welcomes many loans from Spain and throughout Europe, including 21 works from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, along with loans from the Musée du Louvre, the Galleria degli Uffizi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and private collections throughout Europe and the US. Goya: Order and Disorder  includes some 60 works from the MFA’s collection of Goya’s works on paper, one of the most important in the world. Many of these prints and drawings have not been on view in Boston in 25 years. Employed as a court painter ...

The exhibition, organized by the MFA, includes four venues:  MFA, Boston (July 16–December 28, 2014);  Brandywine River Museum of Art (January 16–April 5, 2015);  San Antonio Museum of Art (April 26–July 5, 2015); and  Crystal Bridges Museum of Art (July 23–October 4, 2015). The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has organized the first major retrospective of American artist Jamie Wyeth (born 1946).  Featuring 109 works,  Jamie Wyeth  examines six decades of the artist’s career and charts the evolution of his creative process from his earliest childhood drawings through recurring themes inspired by the people, places and objects that populate his world. The third generationin a family of artists––including his grandfather, Newell Convers “N.C.” Wyeth (1882–1945); his father, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009); and his aunt, Carolyn Wyeth (1909–1994)––Jamie Wyeth has blazed his own unique path. The exhibition displays paintings, works on paper, illustrations and o...

Victoria and Albert Museum 20 September 2014 - 11 January 2015 The V&A's major autumn exhibition will re-examine the work of John Constable (1776-1837), Britain’s best-loved artist. It will explore his sources, techniques and legacy and reveal the hidden stories behind the creation of some of his most well-known paintings. Constable: The Making of a Master will juxtapose Constable’s work for the first time with the art of 17th-century masters of classical landscape such as Ruisdael, Rubens and Claude, whose compositional ideas and formal values Constable revered. On display will be such celebrated works as  The Hay Wain (1821),  The Cornfield (1826) and  Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831),  together with oil sketches Constable painted outdoors directly from nature, which are unequalled at capturing transient effects of light and atmosphere. The exhibition will bring together over 150 works of art including oil sketches, drawings, water...