Yearly Archives: 2009

The University of Richmond Museums presents Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth’s Beauty, on view from September 17 to December 6, 2009, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. The exhibition consists of more than twenty black-and-white photographs [Read More]

The unique vision of artist, adventurer and author Rockwell Kent will be on view at the Brandywine River Museum this fall in Intrepid and Inventive: Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. The exhibition features more than 80 drawings, wood engravings, lithographs and paintings inspired [Read More]

Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of American and European Paintings on Friday, September 11th in its Boston gallery located at 63 Park Plaza. The prints portion of the sale [Read More]

On Thursday, September 10, Posters Please will offer more than 300 lots of rare, vintage posters in its recession-friendly sale, Posters 101. Aimed at attracting first-time buyers and novice poster-enthusiasts, as well as their already-established loyal poster following, this sale showcases graphically-dynamic [Read More]

In the 1890s, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese ukiyo-e color prints, American artists began turning to the oldest of printmaking techniques—the woodcut—to create visually complex, color saturated works. Following in their footsteps, major American artists throughout the 20th [Read More]

Emil Holzhauer: The Georgia Years opens to the public at the Morris Museum of Art on August 29, 2009. Holzhauer’s paintings are being exhibited at the Morris for the first time. Emil Holzhauer, Back Porches, Macon, Georgia, 1948. Courtesy of the Charleston [Read More]

The Brandywine River Museum presents Jamie Wyeth–Seven Deadly Sins, a major exhibition of new works inspired by a traditional concept of human transgressions. With characteristic imagination, Wyeth has depicted the Seven Deadly Sins in a series of paintings with raucous, scavenging seabirds [Read More]

Coinciding with the 75th Birthday of Brigitte Bardot on 28th September 2009, James Hyman Gallery presents an exhibition of 75 vintage photographs by some of the most famous paparazzi photographers. Presented at the same time as London Fashion Week (18-22 September) Brigitte [Read More]

Newly appointed director of the Frye Art Museum Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker honors Charles and Emma Frye’s visionary patronage with an exhibition featuring a selection of important works from the Museum’s Founding Collection. The exhibition, Living Legacy, will be on view September 1, [Read More]

Thomas Eakins’ An Actress (Portrait of Suzanne Santje), is currently on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where it has replaced Eakins’ The Concert Singer. Both paintings are on loan to PAFA from the Philadelphia Museum of Art [Read More]

Celebrating the life and legacy of the legendary Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn, the Nevada Museum of Art presents a major exhibit of etchings in its winter 2009 feature exhibition Rembrandt: The Embrace of Darkness and Light from November 7, [Read More]

Beginning on 11th September 2009 to 23th October 2009, Infantellina Contemporary, the first and only Berlin gallery featuring 100% Italian art, will present the exhibition “Stairway to heaven” by 12 emerging Italian talents: Antonella Boscarini, Marco Castagnetto, Francesco Dea, Andrea Giorgi, Giampaolo [Read More]

Commencing Christie’s Asian Art Week, the sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections on September 14 and 15 will bring together over 400 works of art, including superb ceramics, jades, bronzes, furniture [Read More]

The two-part sale on September 16th will consist of over 400 lots from the collection of the late Bluette H. Kirchoff as well as property from various owners. From the distinguished Kirchoff Collection of Netsuke and Sagemono is a late 18th-Century Ivory [Read More]