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Highlight: Events at Colonial Williamsburg, VA
7th Anniversary
February 4-8, 2007: 59th Annual Antiques Forum; March 15-17, 2007: The Williamsburg Playhouse of 1760 and the World of 18th-Century Theater
Highlight: John Singer Sargent -- Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882
7th Anniversary
This is the fourth in the planned eight-volume Complete Paintings of John Singer Sargent, a project supported by Adelson Galleries in New York. This volume focuses on Sargent's groundbreaking work in landscapes and figures during the eight year period...
Highlight: Modernism in American Silver -- 20th-Century Design
7th Anniversary
During the nineteenth century, the American silverware industry became the largest in the world. By the 1930s, however, less expensive alternatives such as chromium-plated metal and aluminum had become increasingly popular. Faced with a shrinking...
Highlight: Picasso to Pop -- Aspects of Modern Art
7th Anniversary
Beginning with a Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906, Picasso to Pop charts the Wadsworth's history of acquiring works by twentieth-century innovators. Experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis represent the...
Highlight: The Target Collection of American Photography -- A Century in Pictures
7th Anniversary
Features ninety works produced from 1877 to 1998 by such celebrated photographers as Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Imogen Cunningham, and Dorothea Lange. These photographs provides insight into the ways artists documented the visual world during the...
Highlight: Winterthur Events
7th Anniversary
Furniture Forum: March 1-2, 2007; Special One-Day Conference: March 31, 2007; Ceramics Conference: April 27-28, 2007
Highlights: 10th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show
Autumn-Winter 2006
New England's showcase for contemporary and traditional fine art from the U.S., Europe, and Canada returns for its tenth year. The event brings together some of the country's leading specialists in American and European paintings, along with...
Highlights: 175th Anniversary of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Autumn-Winter 2006
Bostonians founded Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1831 to solve the problem of the increasing number of burials in the city. Now a National Historic Landmark, a tour through Mount Auburns' rolling acres reveals some of the most distinguished names in...
Highlights: 2006 Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Autumn-Winter 2006
Record breaking crowds and high paced sales set the scene for the 26th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show. Held from Thursday, August 31 through Sunday, September 3, at the Baltimore Convention Center, over 500 exhibitors from around the world came...
Highlights: American Masterworks From the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute: Celebrating an Educational Alliance with Pratt Institute
Autumn-Winter 2006
For six weeks beginning on November 16, Hirschl & Adler Galleries will host a significant number of American artworks from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI), Utica, New York. The opportunity arose for this special exhibition...
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