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Unattributed. Crime Passionnel: An Outraged Husband Murders his Unfaithful Wife and her Lover, India, circa 1745. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 22.8 x 31.5 cm. Courtesy of Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

Ceramics specialists Fenichell-Basmajian present An Exhibition of 18th-Century Blue-&-English Porcelain in Homage to Dr. Bernard Watney (1922–1998): Selections from the Collection of an American Friend, on view at the New York gallery November 1–15. Tel.: 212.396.4670.

Unattributed. An Encounter at a Well, India, circa 1745. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 29.1 x 17.2 cm. Courtesy of Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

The Sensuous and the Sublime: Representations of Love in the Arts of the Middle East and Southern Asia visually presents the tales of historic and mythological lovers in thirty paintings and sculptures from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. Now on view through December 30 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tel.: 617.495.9400.

Selections from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection of twentieth-century masterworks, bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1998, are installed in the MET’s Gelman Galleries through February 3, 2002. Highlights include Dubuffet paintings from his scandalous 1944 debut exhibition in Paris and Salvador Dali’s melodramatic and autobiographical Accomodations of Desire. Tel.: 212.535.7710.

Edmund C. Tarbell (American, 1862–1938). Emeline and Josephine Tarbell (the artist’s wife and daughter). Ca. 1905, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 inches. Courtesy of Spanierman Gallery, LLC.

An exhibition on the Pennsylvania artist Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842) is scheduled to open Spring 2003. Anyone with knowledge of paintings or primary materials associated with Eichholtz is kindly requested to contact Thomas R. Ryan at The Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 North President Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603. Tel: 717.392.4633; E-mail: tryan@marauder.millersville.edu.

The exhibition One Hundred Ten Years of American Art: 1830–1940, at Spanierman Gallery from October 15 to December 31, will include about eighty works by notable American artists such as Cecelia Beaux, Frank Benson, Albert Bierstadt, A.T. Bricher, Daniel Garber, Richard E. Miller, Edward Potthast, Edmund Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, and many others. New York, tel.: 212.832.0208.


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