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J. M. W. Turner paintings on view > Celebrate the 250th anniversary of James Mallord William Turner’s birth by seeing twelve of his watercolors from the Taft Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. On view at the Taft Museum of Art through June 15, 2025, “J. M. W. Turner: Watercolor Horizons” is the first exhibition to bring together the entirety of the two museums’ luminous works by Turner in this medium.

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Considered one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, Turner (English, 1775–1851) was a master of the art of watercolor. A prolific artist and intrepid traveler, he was especially drawn to mountains, alpine lakes, glaciers, river valleys, and the sea, as well as the human presence within these dramatic settings. Watercolor Horizons features views of Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Scotland, and Italy. The exhibition explores Turner’s skill with a brush on paper through these remarkable landscapes, examples of his innovative techniques, and painting tools from the era on loan from local collections.

“’J. M. W. Turner: Watercolor Horizons’ is a rare opportunity to see these treasures up close and in person,” said the exhibition’s curator Tamera Lenz Muente. “Each is filled with exquisite color and mind-blowing details that you can examine with magnifying glasses we’ll have in the gallery. Paired with a tea from the café or a family program, the Turner birthday experience at the Taft is one not to miss.”

For tickets to see these J. M. W. Turner paintings, visit taftmuseum.org/Turner250.

Attention Art Collectors!
May 20-22, 2025: Visit the Plein Air Convention & Expo’s robust pop-up art gallery at the Nugget Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada, where hundreds of artists, including our master faculty, will have studio and plein air works on display and ready to purchase. Register for the full event at PleinAirConvention.com now.

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Surprises await visitors to the RISD Museum in its exhibition “The Art of French Wallpaper Design.” Organized by curator Emily Banas, it explores the vibrant designs that adorned Europeans’ walls in the 1700s and 1800s.

“The Art of French Wallpaper Design”
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
risdmuseum.org
through May 11, 2025

On view are more than 100 rare samples of salvaged wallpapers, borders, fragments, and design drawings, all revealing their creators’ innovations and technical skill. Accompanied by a digital publication, this project celebrates the foresight of Charles and Frances Wilson Huard, who assembled this collection in the 1920s and ’30s.

The online catalogue notes that “in the past, much like today, wallpaper designs typically reflected what was in vogue, so once papers were out of fashion, they were removed or pasted over. It is therefore not surprising that examples of historical wallpapers are few and far between, particularly those in good condition. To assemble a comprehensive collection today would be a difficult undertaking.”

Celebrity Portraits in Print History > Before the 18th century, consumers in Great Britain and its American colonies lacked access to images of famous people other than monarchs. Broad circulation of engraved portraiture changed all that; now people could put a recognizable likeness or caricature with a name they had read about. Soon a market emerged for images of writers, actors, criminals, athletes, politicians, military figures, social climbers, models, and fashionable society women.

This year, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum — one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg — is presenting the exhibition “Celebrity in Print,” which pairs portrait prints with porcelain, silver, archeological fragments, and other artifacts that together illustrate the powerful impact celebrities made.

According to Katie McKinney, Colonial Williamsburg’s curator of maps and prints, “Just as today we use ever-expanding technologies to shape and share our image, so artists, actors, politicians, athletes, and socialites of the past used the printed word and images to expand their influence and fame.”

“Celebrity in Print”
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Williamsburg, Virginia
colonialwilliamsburg.org
through November 8, 2025

Among the most recognizable of colonial government notables was Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). In a 1763 mezzotint made after a portrait painted by Mason Chamberlin, several of Franklin’s most famous experiments are depicted around him, including the lightning rod. After the print was published in England, his son ordered 200 copies to sell in Philadelphia. Franklin himself greatly enjoyed handing the print out to friends and correspondents, as this was one of his favorite likenesses.

Actors were often depicted in costumes or striking poses from their most famous roles. Their printed portraits often served as inspiration for ceramic figurines and were transferred to handkerchiefs, snuffboxes, and drinking vessels. One example featured in “Celebrity in Print” (and illustrated here) is the British comedic actor Henry Woodward (1714–1777).

This pair includes a print and a porcelain figure showing him as “The Fine Gentleman” in David Garrick’s first play, Lethe, or Esop in Shades, first performed in London in 1740. Woodward’s character, dressed in an absurd outfit, poked fun at the wealthy Englishmen who traveled through Europe on their “Grand Tour.”

Upon their return, it was feared that they would adopt foreign dress, customs, and tastes. Garrick’s play was soon performed to huge acclaim in New York, Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Charleston.

Printed likenesses also celebrated ordinary people who led extraordinary lives. In the 18th century, 50 was the threshold of “old age.” It is not surprising, then, that Margaret Patten, who in 1737 claimed to be 136 years old, attracted attention. The mezzotint engraving of her is based on a portrait by John Cooper that was painted at the request of local officials to commemorate her long life.

The exhibited prints — and also other examples kept elsewhere at Colonial Williamsburg — can be explored in depth on two 65-inch touchscreens available for visitors’ use in the galleries.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art holds a superb collection of nearly 1,250 European drawings, watercolors, and pastels, but can rarely display them as they are sensitive to light. On view this season is the exhibition “Paper, Color, Line,” featuring 65 masterworks dating from the 16th through the late 20th centuries.

This trove is particularly strong in the 19th and 20th centuries, and among the talents represented are Courbet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Schiele, Klee, and Miró. Another collection strength is theatrical designs, including works by Picasso, Léon Bakst, and Natalia Goncharova. Led by its curator of European art, Oliver Tostmann, the museum has made some exciting discoveries, all documented in the Wadsworth’s first ever catalogue devoted to this material.

“Paper, Color, Line”
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
Hartford, Connecticut
thewadsworth.org
Through April 27, 2025

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has organized the innovative exhibition “Rivera’s Paris.” It gathers an array of paintings, drawings, and photographs to explore the Mexican artist’s formative early years in Spain and France, particularly his encounters with cubism that resulted in “Dos Mujeres” (1914), a signature artwork in the museum’s own Foundation Collection.

Dos Mujeres is a portrait of Rivera’s common-law wife, Angelina Beloff (standing), and their artist friend Alma Dolores Bastián. It earned acclaim when first exhibited in Paris and was gifted to the museum in 1955 by Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, sister to Arkansas’s future Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

Rivera’s Paris
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Little Rock
arkmfa.org
Through May 18, 2025

The Flagler Museum is presenting “The Ethereal Worlds of Maxfield Parrish,” an exhibition of 25 works demonstrating the genius of the Philadelphia-born master (1870–1966) whose paintings evoke a dreamlike world that hovers between reality and reverie. Parrish was a leading figure in the Golden Age of American Illustration, whose approximately 900 commissions for advertisements, magazines, books, stage sets, murals, stationery, and children’s books made him world-famous. By 1925, one out of every four households in America possessed reproductions of his art in some form.

On view this season are artworks featuring his highly saturated colors (especially the distinctive “Parrish Blue”) and lustrous glazing techniques. The compositions often depict figures in lush landscapes that are both romantic and fantastical, often with a neoclassical flourish.

Originally named “Whitehall,” the Flagler Museum was built by the real estate developer Henry Flagler at the heart of his most prestigious creation, Palm Beach, Florida. It is a highly appropriate venue for this exhibition as its heyday overlapped with Parrish’s. When it was completed in 1902, the house was hailed by the New York Herald as “more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world.” Parrish often depicted such grand, idealized buildings, too.

Details at a Glance:
“The Ethereal Worlds of Maxfield Parrish”
Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
flaglermuseum.us
Through April 20, 2025

The Asheville Art Museum is presenting “Asheville Strong: Celebrating Art and Community After Hurricane Helene,” a poignant and inspiring exhibition on view February 13–May 5, 2025, in the Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall. This non-juried exhibition showcases the works of artists from the Helene-affected Appalachia region, celebrating their resilience, creativity, and strength while highlighting the power of art to inspire and bring communities together.

The Museum issued an open call for artist submissions, collaborating with local and regional arts networks to reach artists from the Southern Appalachian community impacted by Hurricane Helene. The response was overwhelmingly positive, with over 150 submissions showcasing a diverse range of works.

“Hurricane Helene was devastating for everyone, and as a public-serving arts institution, we really wanted to recognize the impact the storm had on artists,” said Jessica Orzulak, Associate Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs. “Artists are an integral to the bedrock of our communities in WNC. Our goal has been to create space for impacted artists to showcase their work to a broad public, opportunities for artists to connect with each other and collectors, and a means for us all to join together in a collective act of resilience.”

Asheville Strong features a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and photography. Each work is accompanied by the artist’s information, allowing viewers to connect and learn more about the creators. For more information, please visit www.ashevilleart.org.

Given its location in southern Connecticut, it’s appropriate that the Fairfield University Art Museum has organized the exhibition “Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut.” It explores the development of the tonalist style in American landscape painting from the 1870s — a movement that reacted against the Hudson River School’s narrative of God-ordained grandeur and luminous, crystalline views by instead foregrounding humanity’s spiritual connection to nature, often painted from memory and informed by the traumas of civil war and industrialization.

At a Glance:
“Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut”
Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield, Connecticut
fairfield.edu/museum
Through April 12, 2025

Drawn from private and public collections, the show’s 70 works range in date from 1878 to 1917, painted by 24 artists clustered primarily in and around New York and Boston. The title (Dawn & Dusk) reflects the tonalists’ preference for the subtle visual effects that dawn, twilight, autumn, and winter have on the landscape. Vacant of human activity, the images often hint at spiritual or symbolic meanings and provide a bridge to the more expressive and psychological modernist works of the 20th century.

Guest-curated by Mary Ann Hollihan, the exhibition features an important painting by George Inness from the Bridgeport Public Library not publicly exhibited in over 70 years; two works by Whistler lent by the New York Public Library; two paintings lent by the Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme, Connecticut); and works by three women artists lent by New York City’s Hawthorne Fine Art and the Cooley Gallery (Old Lyme).

Blanche Lazzell Art on View > “Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist,” the first major exhibition in nearly two decades devoted to this artist, will soon grace the Bruce Museum. On view will be more than 60 paintings, prints, and other works on paper, most characterized by Lazzell’s bold colors and flattened forms.

At a Glance:
“Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist”
Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut
brucemuseum.org
February 6–April 27, 2025

Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956) moved from her native West Virginia to New York City, Paris, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her experiences enabled her to infuse American art with European modernism, and she is best remembered for experimenting with the white-line block technique, producing more than 100 such woodcuts. By cutting a design into a soft block of wood, then inking and transferring its individual sections one by one, Lazzell produced prints with translucent colors floating within the white boundaries left by her incised lines. At the Bruce, visitors will be invited to test Lazzell’s techniques in an adjacent interactive space.

Organized by the Art Museum of West Virginia University, this touring exhibition has been coordinated at the Bruce by Jordan Hillman. She has assembled a complementary display of paintings from the Bruce’s rich collection. Titled “Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape,” it reveals how late 19th-century American artists’ responses to nature were informed by both avant-garde experimentation and the particularities of place.

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