Exhibits

San Marino, CA

The Huntington
The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985. September 24, 2011- January 30, 2012.

Sam Maloof (1916 – 2009), Double Music Stand (1969) and Chair (1972), Brazilian Rosewood Stand: 44 ½ x 51 x 30 ½ in.; chair: 29 x 24 x 18 ¾ in. Collection of the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Alta Loma, Calif. Credit: John Sullivan, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

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Washington, DC

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts From the White House. October 1, 2011- May 6, 2012. Leslie Jones, who received a Trust summer research grant to study this collection, will be
lecturing on the Bellangé chairs at the Renwick Gallery on Friday, October 7 at noon. Her research was featured in the Summer 2011 issue of the Trust newsletter.

Armchair, about 1875, gilded ash, made by Herter Brothers, New York, NY, U.S. Government purchase, 1875, photo courtesy White House Historical Association

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Orlando, FL

Orlando Museum of Art
Life Stories: American Portraits Past and Present. Through June 30, 2012.

John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, 1880, oil on panel, 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in., On long-term loan from Martin Andersen-Gracia Andersen Foundation, Inc. From Exhibition Life Stories: American Portraits Past and Present at the Orlando Museum of Art.

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Deerfield, MA

Historic Deerfield

• Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture. Through November 28, 2011.

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Salem, MA

Peabody Essex Museum

• "Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China." Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China -- fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe. Through March 18, 2012. (Beautiful interactive exhibit available online as well.)


• Any House is a Home. Swiss contemporary artist Marianne Mueller wants to show you a different kind of museum. Her installation Any House is a Home will combine the artist’s own photography and video with selected examples of historic photographs, furniture, shoes, mirrors and glass. Mueller arranges these objects (297 in all) in unexpected and provocative ways, casting new light on lesser-seen corners of PEM’s collection. On view to December 31, 2011.

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Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Basins, Baskets, and Bowls: Women Explore the Vessel.
Through October 23, 2011.

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Kansas City, MO

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs 1851-1939. April 14, 2012- August 19, 2012.

Thomas Jeckyll, English, 1827–1881. Garden Chair, ca. 1878. Painted iron with mahogany. 32 ½ x 14 ½ x 13 ½ in. (82.6 x 36.8 x 34.3 cm). Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through exchange of the gifts of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust and Mrs. W. W. Townley and the bequests of Miriam Babbitt Simpson and Mrs. Peter T. Bohan, 2010.19.1 Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 is being co-organized by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Art.  In Kansas City the exhibition is supported by the Campbell-Calvin Fund and Elizabeth C. Bonner Charitable Trust for exhibitions.

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New York, NY

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York. December 20, 2011- May 6, 2012.
  (Premiere exhibit for VIP in January!)


• American Wing Sculpture and Paintings gallery renovation reopens January 17, 2012

The Museum at FIT

Sporting Life. Through November 5, 2011.
An exhibition that explores the relationship between active sportswear and fashion over the past 150 years.

Gym suit, blue cotton twill, 1896, USA, museum purchase.  From exhibition "Sporting Life", The Museum at FIT

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Winston-Salem, NC

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
“The Neatest Pieces of Any Description”: Furniture of Piedmont, North Carolina, 1780-1840. Through Fall 2011.

Chest of Drawers and Miniature Chest of Drawers Attributed to Amos Alexander (1769-1847) Mecklenburg County 1790-1800 Gift of Charlotte and Philip Hanes in honor of Thomas A. Gray and his multiple contributions to MESDA and Old Salem (acc. 5594.1-2)

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Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Museum of Art

• Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design at Carnegie Museum of Art. Ongoing.


• Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design at Carnegie Museum of Art. Ongoing.

Samuel Gragg, American, 1772-c. 1855; Fully Elastic Armchair, c. 1810, painted wood, probably white oak, soft maple, and hickory; Carnegie Museum of Art, Berdan Memorial Trust Fund

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Henriette Charlotte Chastaigner (Mrs. Nathaniel Broughton), 1711, by Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (ca. 1674 - 1729), pastel on paper, gift of Victor A. Morawetz, 1938.020.0004 From Gibbes Museum of Art exhibition, "Breaking Down Barriers"

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art

• Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art, October 28, 2011- January 8, 2012


• Camera Works: Masters in Photography,
  October 28, 2011- January 8, 2012

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Houston, TX

Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. November 13, 2011- February 12, 2012. (Opens on final day of Houston symposium—stay another day to see this exhibit!)

Willem van de Velde the Younger, Fishing Boats in a Calm, no date, oil on canvas. The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

 

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