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• The Timken Museum of Art ~ Opens West Coast Venue for George Inness in Italy
• The Cavalier Gallery To Host First Annual Maritime Exhibition in Nantucket
• Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong Presents New Works by Yang Shewei
• The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art Reinstalls Their Modern Collection
• The Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Shows "Flowers Contemporary Photography"
• Wolfe Contemporary Shows Works on Paper in "Sight Unseen"
• Cartoonmuseum Basel Presents An Overview of Ralf Konig's Work
• 19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby's Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro
• Apostolos Georgiou Solos at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens
• New Sensor Network Protecting Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
• India's Most Prominent Painter ~ M.F. Husain, Dies at Age 95
• The Benjaman Gallery Presents Paintings by Robert Noel Blair
• The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Shows "American Legacy"
• The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts ~ Superb Collection Of Canadian Artworks ~ Visited By 5 Million Annually
• Florence Griswold Museum hosts 'Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France'
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art features 'Spirit Red' a gift of Rennard Strickland
• Major Painting by American Artist Philip Evergood is Acquired by VMFA
• Pinakothek der Moderne hosts Masterdrawings from The Morgan Library & Museum
• Missoula Art Museum (MAM) to present Mary Ann Papanek-Miller
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Timken Museum of Art ~ Opens West Coast Venue for George Inness in Italy Posted: 09 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT San Diego, CA.- The Timken Museum of Art, considered one of the finest small museums in the world, will be the exclusive West Coast venue for "George Inness in Italy", an exhibition of the Italian landscapes of American painter George Inness. Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this is the first exhibition to examine George Inness's two Italian sojourns, (1851–52 and 1870–74) and their formative impact on his experimentation with style, composition, and subject as he sought inspiration in both the art of the Old Masters and his personal experiences of the places they painted. Italy—its art and its landscape—offered Inness a font of inspiration as he developed his own unique artistic vision. "George Innes in Italy" will be on show at the Timken from June 10th through September 18th. Inness's two pivotal sojourns to Italy were catalysts for his career. He would continue to digest the ideas and subjects developed during his trips long after returning to the United States, as he advanced his art. For Inness Italy provided the paradigm of the "civilized landscape," which he held up as the ideal for its ability to express human sentiment through nature, famously declaring that the aim of art "is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." George Inness in Italy presents ten oil paintings and one watercolor surveying Inness's Italian subjects dating from 1850, just before his trip abroad, to his last in 1879. A highlight of the exhibition is the Timken Museum of Art's "L'Ariccia" (c. 1874) Inness's most representative of the three paintings exhibited from his second trip to Italy. Inness's first major work completed in Italy, "Twilight on the Campagna" (c.1851) was a recently conserved painting and has not been on view since 1952. Its reemergence and restoration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, precipitated by a comprehensive publication, or catalogue raisonné, of Inness's entire body of work issued in 2007, constituted a significant rediscovery. All of the paintings selected for this exhibition constitute the finest of Inness' Italian work and are representative of the artist's development during his three decades of engagement with the subject. Each landscape is filled with a poetic sentiment, encapsulating the topography with an "orchestrated intricacy." Inness enjoyed his most productive years during his second stay in Italy. His paintings sold well, both as mementos of Italy for affluent American travelers and as progressive stylistic experiments for leading collectors of American landscape painting. He is widely admired as the pioneer of the aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. Although Inness returned to the United States in 1874, he continued to paint Italian compositions and honed the Tonalist aesthetic that began with his first trip to Italy in 1851. With "L'Ariccia" as its highlight, George Inness in Italy charts his development as he formed, interpreted, and later remembered his diverse and vivid impressions of Italy. Eleven of Inness' paintings will be shown, including "L'Ariccia", which is a part of the Timken's permanent collection. A desire to share the extraordinary European art collection of Amy and Anne Putnam with San Diego residents and visitors resulted in the establishment of the Timken Museum of Art. The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the serendipitous relationship between two sisters, Anne R. and Amy Putnam - members of the Ohio-based Timken family of the Timken roller bearing fame - and San Diego attorney Walter Ames. The Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900s from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by their uncle, Henry Putnam, who retired in San Diego in 1898. The Putnam sisters spent decades acquiring European old master paintings. Initial paintings from the sisters' collection were donated to San Diego's Fine Arts Gallery (now the San Diego Museum of Art). Their later acquisitions were loaned to prestigious museums around the country until the Timken Museum of Art opened in 1965. In 1951, with the assistance of longtime friend and advisor Walter Ames, the Putnam sisters established the nonprofit Putnam Foundation, under which their artworks became designated as the Putnam Foundation Collection. In the early 1960's, Ames secured financial support from the Timken family to help build the museum. In the years between the Foundation's establishment and the opening of the museum, the Putnam Foundation Collection paintings remained on loan to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the National Gallery in Washington, DC; and Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum. In 1965, the paintings were reunited, and hung in their new permanent quarters at the Timken Art Museum. Located on the Prado in San Diego's beautiful Balboa Park, today's Timken Museum of Art displays more than 60 extraordinary artworks, predominantly paintings augmented by a small holding of sculpture and decorative art objects. The works in the Putnam Foundation Collection are primarily in three distinct areas: European old master paintings, 18th and 19th-century American art, and Russian icons. Each collection boasts unique and priceless representations of the specific genre. Notable works in the collection include Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew (the only painting by the Dutch artist on view in San Diego); Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Parable of the Sower; "Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Gage" by John Singleton Copley; "The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket" by Eastman Johnson; and the "View of Volterra" by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.  Visit the museum's website at ... www.timkenmuseum.org

The Cavalier Gallery To Host First Annual Maritime Exhibition in Nantucket Posted: 09 Jun 2011 10:54 PM PDT Nantucket, MA.- The Cavalier Gallery in Nantucket is pleased to announce that it will be hosting The Vallejo Gallery's First Annual Maritime Exhibition in Nantucket, MA, as the highlight of the Important Marine & Maritime Paintings Exhibition and Sale, from June 15th through September 15th in their Nantucket gallery. The exhibition will include works by: Antonio Jacobsen, Montague Dawson, Reynolds Beal, Edward Moran, James E. Buttersworth, Anthony Thieme, A.C. Smith, Jack L. Gray, Thompson Bricher, Charles S. Raleigh, James Bard, Charles Robert Patterson, Shane Michael Couch, Maarten Platje, William Storck, Christopher Ward, and John Terelak.

Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong Presents New Works by Yang Shewei Posted: 09 Jun 2011 10:33 PM PDT Hong Kong.- The Karin Weber Gallery is pleased to present "Who Fights Fair? And the Evolution" by Yang Shewei from June 17th through July 12th, with an opening reception on Thursday June 16th. We are taught from childhood that it is honorable to fight fair, be it in games, sports, love or business. But life is not fair. Advantage and advancement over others becomes desirable and honor often goes out the window in the daily grind to make it. Amidst the the rapid development in China the vast majority of people deal with these conditions on a daily basis.

The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art Reinstalls Their Modern Collection Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:56 PM PDT Oklahoma City.- In preparation of the reopening of the museum's Stuart Wing in October 2011, the Sandy Bell Gallery of the Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma will be reinstalled with selected works from the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as works on loan from a private collector. Works by Leon Polk Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and other important contemporary artists will be included in the installation. The opening reception on June 3rd and 4th will feature a special choreographed dance inspired by Rauschenberg's "The Lotus Series" and a live concert in conjunction with the Norman Music Festival.

The Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Shows "Flowers Contemporary Photography" Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:40 PM PDT Berlin.- The Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation is proud to present "Flowers Contemporary Photography" from July 2nd through October 2nd. Beauty and transience, love and death. Hardly a living thing is used more frequently to symbolize these themes than the flower — even contemporary photographers repeatedly take up this century-old motif. For this reason the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation is introducing its first exhibition surveying this theme. Presenting the exemplary work of 18 international artists and photographers, this selection brings together a great variety of approaches within contemporary flower photography.

Wolfe Contemporary Shows Works on Paper in "Sight Unseen" Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:39 PM PDT San Francisco, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Sight Unseen", a summer group exhibition of works on paper. Featured artists include Dan Attoe, Kirsten Deirup, Shawn Kuruneru, and Frank Magnotta. "Sight Unseen: Works on Paper by Various Artists" is on view at the gallery until July 15th.With the exception of Portland-based Attoe, all are based in New York City and rarely exhibited in the Bay Area.

Cartoonmuseum Basel Presents An Overview of Ralf Konig's Work Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:13 PM PDT BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Ralf König (born 1960 in Germany) has written and drawn stories about the relationships among adults for 30 years. Mostly, they focus on men, but increasingly, they deal with love between men and women. And recently, König even analyzes the relationship between men and God.

19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby's Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:47 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- Today's sale of 19th Century European Painting at Sotheby's Amsterdam brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot and 69.2% by value, and set three new artist records. The highest price achieved was for Winter in the Streets of a Dutch Town painted by Willem Koekkoek (1839-1895), one of the most distinguished painters of townscapes, which realized €228,750 ($333,389) against a pre- sale estimate of €100,000 – 150,000. Koekkoek's works were greatly admired all over Europe for their nostalgic mood and uniquely refined and detailed style of painting. This painting is an impressive example, not only because of its size, but also because of its ability to capture Holland's Age of Romanticism.

Apostolos Georgiou Solos at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:46 PM PDT Athens.- The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens presents a solo exhibition by Apostolos Georgiou, one of the most important contemporary Greek painters. The exhibition constitutes the largest presentation of Georgiou's work to date, focusing on works that he produced over approximately the past decade. The exhibition aims at assembling and throwing into relief his mature painterly work, as well as a substantial part of his recent artistic investigation. "Apostolos Georgiou: Paintings" will remain on view until September 18th.

New Sensor Network Protecting Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:29 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY (AP).- It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapestries and other medieval masterpieces at a New York City museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that a network of wireless environmental sensors designed to prevent damage to the collection is being tested at its Cloisters branch. The IBM sensors — each housed with a radio and a microcontroller in a case about the size of a pack of cigarettes — can measure temperature, humidity, air flow, light levels, contaminants and more. They are inexpensive and run on low power, and several can be positioned in a room, scientists said.

India's Most Prominent Painter ~ M.F. Husain, Dies at Age 95 Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:02 PM PDT NEW DELHI (AP).- M.F. Husain, a former movie billboard artist who rose to become India's most sought-after painter before going into self-imposed exile during an uproar over nude images of Hindu icons, died Thursday. He was 95. CNN-IBN TV channel quoted a friend, Arun Vadehra, as saying that Husain, often described as India's Picasso, died at the Royal Brompton hospital in London. His lawyer, Akhil Sibal, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.

The Benjaman Gallery Presents Paintings by Robert Noel Blair Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:39 PM PDT Buffalo, NY.- "On the Waterfront: Paintings by Robert Noel Blair" will be the first solo exhibition of Blair's work in a Buffalo, NY gallery in over a decade. The exhibition will feature 30 paintings in a variety of media each with an aquatic motif. 'On the Waterfront' will be on show from July 8th through August 21st at the Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo. The exhibition will kick off with a beach-themed party on July 8,  from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Benjaman Gallery located at 419 Elmwood Avenue.

The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Shows "American Legacy" Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:38 PM PDT Springfield, MA.- The most beautiful natural scenery in the United States is presented in the exhibition "American Legacy: Our National Parks, on Location with the Plein-Air Painters of America", on view through November 6 at the Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition includes 94 paintings by 35 landscape artists who are members or guests of the Plein-Air Painters of America. All the works were created between 2008 and 2009. The Plein-Air Painters of America was established as a by-invitation painting group in 1986. "American Legacy: Our National Parks" was organized by the Haggin Museum, Stockton, California. The traveling exhibition is managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri. The term plein-air is used for a painting done in the open air rather than in the studio. Beginning in the early 1800s, as America was expanding westward, lengthy survey expeditions were conducted to measure the land and draw up maps of the territories. In addition to surveyors, cartologists, geologists, and naturalists, the expeditions included artists to pictorially record the appearance of the land. Their color paintings provided the public with their first view of the grandeur and beauty of the American West. Artist Thomas Moran's 19th-century paintings of the geysers and towering waterfalls of the Yellowstone Valley were instrumental in the creation of our nation's first national park. Since then, artists have joined naturalists and preservationists in convincing American presidents and legislators to set aside more than 350 locations as part of our American Legacy. Each artist represented in this exhibition selected a favorite park to document, and their paintings depict sites from throughout the United States. The exhibit is organized chronologically from the earliest park designation to one of the most recent. A fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue is available in the Museum Store. The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of five world-class museums; the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts., the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and the Museum of Springfield History. The Museums Association is proud to be home to the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, a series of full–scale bronze sculptures of Dr. Seuss's whimsical creations, honoring the birthplace of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. The Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts is one of the two Springfield Museums dedicated to fine and decorative arts. The Art Deco-style museum was erected in response to a bequest from Mr. & Mrs. James Philip Gray, who left their entire estate for the "selection, purchase, preservation, and exhibition of the most valuable, meritorious, artistic, and high class oil paintings obtainable," and for the construction of a museum to house them. The museum opened in 1934. The first floor of the museum is dedicated to American art ranging from "Portrait of Nymphas Marston" by John Singleton Copley to "Promenade on the Beach" by Winslow Homer to Contemporary glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The American collection also includes the country's only permanent museum gallery dedicated to the lithographs of Currier & Ives. The second floor is a chronological tour of the museum's fine European art collection. Beginning in the Middle Ages with an intricate 15th-century, Hispano-Flemish Fuentes Retable (altarpiece), the galleries lead visitors through the Renaissance and subsequent centuries with fine paintings from Italy and France. The Dutch and Flemish collection is particularly strong. Familiar names in the Impressionism Gallery include Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and Paul Gauguin. Traveling exhibitions can be found in the Wheeler Gallery. Performances, lectures and presentations are offered in the Davis Auditorium. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/

The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts ~ Superb Collection Of Canadian Artworks ~ Visited By 5 Million Annually Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:22 PM PDT The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, started life in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal. At that time there was no school of art and no museum, nor even any venue at which exhibitions could be mounted. But Montreal was the most important city in British North America at the time, it was the cradle of the Canadian industrial revolution, the hub of waterway, maritime, and railway transport, and the seat of the country's great financial institutions. However, with few funds and a collection that relied on loans to mount even the most basic exhibition, it took a while to develop anything significant. In 1877 Montreal merchant Benaiah Gibb bequeathed the Art Association a plot of land, a sum of money to be used to build a museum, and a modest collection of European paintings and sculptures which formed the nub of the institution's permanent collection. Located in the business quarter of the city, the Art Gallery inaugurated in 1879 was the first building in Canada to be specifically designed to house a collection of works of art. Every year, the Art Association organized two major events in the gallery, an exhibition of works lent by its members and a Spring Exhibition, devoted to living Canadian artists. From the 1880s, the Art Association regularly purchased works exhibited at the Spring Exhibition, and also works produced by the best students at its school of art, thus building up the foundations of its collection of Canadian art. Various bequests to the museum in the 1990s and early 1900s allowed the collection to grow substantially and after considering extending the existing museum in 1909, the members of the Art Association's council decided instead to buy a site on Sherbrooke Street, in the heart of the very smart 'Square Mile' district (later known as the 'Golden Square Mile') where they built a museum consistent with their aspirations. In line with the wishes of the Art Association's council, the new museum, designed by the architects Edward and William S. Maxwell, was sober and imposing in appearance. It had façades in white marble, a high portico with colonnade, a monumental staircase, and discreet decoration in low relief. The building comprised several large exhibition-rooms with overhead lighting, a lecture-hall, a library, and the art-school studios. The new museum opened in December 1912 and in the following year it welcomed some 50,000 visitors. The institution eventually adopted a name that encompassed all the collections, and in 1948 it became the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The 1991 Riopelle retrospective was the first exhibition to be held in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' new annex, a major expansion project on the south side of Sherbrooke Street, facing the original building. To design it, the museum called upon the renowned international architect Moshe Safdie, creator of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec. In a colorful history, the museum was the subject of Canada's largest art-theft, when in 1972, fifty or so works by, amongst others, Rubens, Rembrandt, Corot, and Delacroix, were stolen and never recovered . From those first 50,000 visitors in 1912, numbers have now risen to well over 5,000,000 every year. Visit the museum's website at … www.mbam.qc.ca

Florence Griswold Museum hosts 'Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France' Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:21 PM PDT OLD LYME, CT - The Florence Griswold Museum is the first venue for Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885–1915, an exhibition of over fifty works organized by the Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny. The exhibition tells the story of the expatriate colony founded by American artists in the village of Impressionist master Claude Monet. Attracted by the presence of the Impressionist master Claude Monet, who settled in Giverny in 1883, an international community of artists flocked there from the late 1880s through World War I. More than 70% were Americans. On exhibition through 27 July, 2008.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art features 'Spirit Red' a gift of Rennard Strickland Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT NORMAN, OK.- Art appreciation takes many forms, but for Rennard Strickland, collecting art has become a lifelong legacy. Over five decades, he has acquired more than 100 paintings, baskets, pottery, textiles and sculpture, representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century. Strickland, who is of Osage and Cherokee heritage, served as curator of Native American art at OU's art museum in the early 1990s. In 2007, he announced that he wished to give his remarkable collection to the museum in memory of his mother, Adell Tucker Strickland. Highlights from his collection, which he recently gave to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, will go on display in a new exhibition June 4, 2009.

Major Painting by American Artist Philip Evergood is Acquired by VMFA Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT RICHMOND, VA.- American artist Philip Evergood's 1936 oil on canvas "Street Corner" is among many significant works acquired recently by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VMFA,  in preparation for its grand opening May 1. The painting is the first major Depression-era Urban Realist canvas to enter the collection and was painted in the same year VMFA opened its doors. Also added to the collection is Italian artist Pio Fedi's plaster study for "The Sacrifice of Polyxena," circa 1885; "Mirror with Three-light Sconce," an American work dating from circa 1800-1820; and an array of additional American, European, Asian and African works.

Pinakothek der Moderne hosts Masterdrawings from The Morgan Library & Museum Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT Munich, Germany - One hundred of the finest examples of draftsmanship from the permanent collection of The Morgan Library & Museum are on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. This exhibition has provided an exciting opportunity for the Morgan to collaborate with one of the foremost European collections of works on paper, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, and to share the treasures of its collection with a wider public in one of the cultural capitals of Europe. On view through 3 January, 2009.

Missoula Art Museum (MAM) to present Mary Ann Papanek-Miller Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT   Missoula, MT - Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is honored to present A Snowman Cares for our Memory of Water: Mary Ann Papanek-Miller which celebrates the work of this highly accomplished artist. The work in this exhibition utilizes line and a variety of mixed media processes with a strong vocabulary of painting. A deep spiritual attitude is revealed in this work as Papanek- Miller studies the philosophical nature of time and the conflict of popular culture clashing with a concern for the earth. On view 6 March through 13 June, 2009.

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