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Highlight: Kindred Spirits -- Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Spring 2007
A reconstruction of the career of Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), the acknowledged dean of American landscape painting from his election as president of the National Academy in 1845 until his death at the age of ninety. The contributors reassess Durand's...
Highlight: Marguerite Zorach -- A Life in Art
Spring 2007
This first solo show of Marguerite Zorach's (1887-1968) work in thirty years will feature twenty-five oil paintings. Zorach's career is often overshadowed by that of her husband, sculptor William Zorach, but this early advocate of modernism in America...
Highlight: Tea, Wine and Poetry -- Qing Dynasty Literati and Their Drinking Vessels
Spring 2007
Nearly fifty object on view, including teapots, wine ewers, cups, hanging scrolls, fans, seals, calligraphy, albums and ink rubbings, illuminate the wine and tea- drinking culture of China from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The objects...
Highlight: The Romance of Modernism -- Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection
Spring 2007
Features selections from the private collection of Scott M. Black, founder and CEO of Delphi Management Company, including works by Cezanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir; postimpressionist paintings by Bernard, Denis, Luce, van Rysselbergh, and...
Highlight: The Spring International Art and Antiques Show
Spring 2007
This Spring Wendy Management presents its fifth annual Spring International Art and Antiques Show. Fifty-two important international dealers will display a vast array of objects, from Roman antiquities to contemporary art and period furnishings...
Highlight: The Summer Fair -- Olympia Fine Art and Antiques
Spring 2007
This year, interior designers Mario Buatta, Joanne de Guardiola, Brian McCarthy, and Rose Tarlow are the cochairs of the American Friends of the Summer Fair Olympia. The fair will bring together 250 British and 50 international interior design...
Highlight: Winterthur's Furniture Forum, 2007
Spring 2007
This March, Winterthur Museum's forum Inlay, Veneer, and Imported Woods in America, 1785-1830, brought collectors, dealers, scholars, and museum professionals to hear lectures by leading members of the field. Topics covered included imported and...
Highlights: At the Field Museum
Spring 2007
Journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement and discover what scientists have learned about Americans who lived here before the arrival of Europeans. Step into the windswept world of Ice Age mammoth hunters; explore the Aztec empire...
Show Preview: The Haughton International Fine Art Fair 2007
Spring 2007
This annual fair's range and quality of paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture, draws institutional and private buyers from around the world. The only
Show Review: Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show -- Presidents' Day Weekend -- February 16-20, 2007
Spring 2007
This year's Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show built on the steady momentum it has gained since its first appearance in 2004. Clearly it has become one of the most important shows in the country. Two hundred and five dealers from the U.S., Canada...
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