2013 National Calendar of Exhibitions

American Representational Art Exhibitions Hosted by Art Museums and Other Non-Profit Organizations



 

January

 

American Folk Art Museum
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed *
January 24 through May 26
 
 
Flint Institute of Arts
Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace *
January 27 through March 17
 
 
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University
Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection *
January 12 through March 31
 
 
Georgia Museum of Art
Americans in Italy *
January 19 through April 21
 
 
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Maurice Merlin and the American Scene, 1930-1947 *
January 19 through April 15
 
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper *
January 12 through March 17
 
 
Newport Art Museum
Shelf Life: Paintings by Gerry Perrino *
January 19 through May 12
 
 
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Photorealism Revisited *
January 24 through April 21
 
 
Portland Museum of Art - Maine
Lois Dodd: Catching the Light *
January 17 through April 7
 
 
Springfield Museum of Art
Outside in Ohio: A Century of Unexpected Genius *
January 19 through March 3
 
 
Wichita Art Museum
The Edmund L. Davison Collection *
January 19 through March 31
 
 
William Benton Museum of Art at University of Connecticut
Millionaires and Mechanics, Bootleggers and Flappers: Speaking of "The Great Gatsby" *
January 22 through March 17
 
 

February

 

 

 

Cahoon Museum of American Art
The Magnificent Spelndor of Trees: How Artists Interpret Trees *
February 1 - March 24, 2013
 
 
Delaware Art Museum
State of the Art: Illustration 100 Years After Howard Pyle*
February 9 through June 1
 
 
Greenville County Museum of Art
Stephen Scott Young*
February 6 through April 21
 
 
Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico
Red Willow: Portraits of a Town *
February 9 through May 5
Eva Mirabal and Jonathon Warm Day *
February 9 through May 5
 
 
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Angels & Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th-Century American Art *
February 16 through May 12
 
 
Museum of Biblical Art
Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery *
February 15 through May 26
 
 
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
In Search of the Source: The Nile and Beyond by Lockwood de Forest *
February 2 through April 7
 
 
Utah Museum of Fine Arts at University of Utah
Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West *
February 15 through August 11
 
 
 

March

 
 
Art Institute of Chicago
They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950 *
March 3 through June 2
 
 
Baltimore Museum of Art
Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York *
March 3 through June 23
 
 
Morris Museum of Art
Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection
March 2 through May 26 *
First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson and Her Circle *
March 9 through May 5
 
 
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Philip Pearlstein's People, Places, Things *
March 2 through June 16
 
 
Norton Museum of Art
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 *
March 14 through June 16
 
 
Pasadena Museum of California Art
California Scene Paintings from 1930 to 1960 *
March 10 through July 28
 
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection *
March 3 through May 27
 
 
Woodmere Art Museum
Charles Searles: A Focus on the Figure *
March 26 through June 15
 
 
 

 

April

 
 
 
 
Amon Carter Museum
Texas Regionalism *
April 30 through April 20
 
 
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper *
April 13 through June 16
 
 
Michener (James A.) Art Museum
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity *
April 13 through July 7
 
 
Portsmouth Historical Society
Omer T. Lassonde: New Hampshire Modernist *
April 5 through May 27
 
 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pop Art and Beyond: Tom Wesselmann *
April 6 though July 28
 
 
Woodmere Art Museum
Private Artist/Public Life: Ethel V. Ashton *
April 6 through June 30
 
 
 
 

May

 

 

Brandywine River Museum
Which Way the Wind Blows: Antique American Weathervanes
May 25 through July 28
 
 
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Work to Do: Women artists in Utah
May 17 through September 28
 
 
Canton Museum of Art
Joseph O'Sickey Retrospective
May 11 through July 29
 
 
Cahoon Museum of American Art
Collecting Stories: American Paintings from the Collection of Thomas Davies
May 21 through July 7, 2013
 
 
Cleveland Artists Foundation
Pioneering Modernism: Post-Impressionism in Cleveland, 1908-1913
May 24 through July 27
 
 
Dallas Museum of Art
Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
May 26 through September 15
 
 
Denver Art Museum
Red, White & Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870
May 19 through September 22
 
 
Figge Art Museum
American POP! Selections from the CU Art Museum Collection
May 4 through September 8
 
 
Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico
The Third Chapter: Woody Crumbo
May 18 through September 8
R.C. Gorman: The Early Years
May 18 through September 8
 
 
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Henry and Abe: Finding America
May 5 through July 7
 
 
National Academy Museum
Visions of Land and Sea: William Trost Richards
May 23 through December 8
 
 
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
150th Anniversary of Saint Mary's College: the Best of the Permanent Collection
May 5 through July 14
 
 
 

 

June

 

 

 
Amon Carter Museum
We the People: Picturing American Identity
June 15 through September 8
 
 
Brandywine River Museum
Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan
June 15 through November 17
 
 
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Royal Nebeker: An Artist's Journey
June 7 through December 20
 
 
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Anthony Quinn Exhibition
June 6 through August 25
 
 
Crocker Art Museum
An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
June 9 through September 1
 
 
El Paso Museum of Art
Impressions East·South·West: Mabel May Woodward
June 2 through July 21
 
 
Florence Griswold Museum
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: An Artist's Guide to the World *
June 8 through September 23
 
 
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South
June 1 through September 15
 
 
Michener (James A.) Art Museum
Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality
June 8 through September 8
 
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Joe Price Prints
June 8 through July 21
 
 
 

 

July

 

 

 
Amon Carter Museum
June Wayne: The Tamarind Decade
July 23 through January 19
 
 
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Simpler, Brighter, Stronger: Southwestern Art and Early Modernism, 1910­1960
July 12 through May 2014
 
 
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Robert Vickrey Exhibition
July 25 through September 1
 
 
Flint Institute of Arts
Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection
July 13 through September 22
 
 
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares - Art by Latino Artists
July 7 through September 14

 

 

 

August

 

 

Cahoon Museum of American Art
In Praise of Women: How Women are Portrayed in American Art
August 20 through September 29
 
 
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace
August 31 through January 19
 
 
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life
August 8 through December 8
 
 
 
 

September

 

 

Boston Athenæum
Collecting for a New Century: Paintings and Sculptures
September 18 through February 1
 
 
Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico
The Harwoods
September 21 through January 26
 
 
Portland Museum of Art - Maine
Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted
September 7 through December 8
 
 
Taft Museum of Art
Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th-Century American Art
September 20 through January 12

 

 
 

October

 

 
Amon Carter Museum
Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
October 12 through January 12
 
 
Crocker Art Museum
Jules Tavernier: Artiste and Adventurer
October 20 through January 26
 
 
Milwaukee Art Museum
Thomas Sully: Painted Performance
October 11 through January 5
 
 
Nassau County Museum of Art
Peter Max
October 26 through February 2
 
 
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
October 25 through March 2
 
 
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
Self-Portraits by Late 20th c. Masters: the Syracuse University Collection
October 20 through December 15
 
 
 
 

November

 
 
 
 
 

December

 
 
 

 

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What is included

These calendars reference exhibitions devoted primarily to American representational art. Not all exhibitions submitted to TFAO are included in calendars.

Excluded content includes:

Resource Library selectively publishes publicity articles concerning retrospective exhibitions of artist organizations' individual members at museums or art centers. Artist organizations include cooperatives, clubs and other membership societies.

Revisions of dates are accepted and encouraged in order for calendars to be as accurate as possible. The deadline for inclusion in a current monthly calendar is the first day of that month.

To make the most of your visit to an exhibition

If you are touring, you will find American art venues to visit Indexed by State within the United States. Call the museum in advance to see if you can:

Exhibition dates may and do change without prior notice from museums to TFAO. Always verify dates directly with museums before visiting their exhibitions.

Museums often have closed days. Mondays are common in the USA but sometimes there are other closed days or multiple closed days. It's a good idea to arrive early or late in the day when there are less crowds. Many museums have tours for school children in the morning, causing increased traffic. Some museums have evening hours and many offer free days throughout the year.

When arriving you can get an idea of what the museum considers it's most cherished works by scanning the postcards in the museum gift shop. Or take a look through books that describe the museum's collection. Larger museums have kiosks, brochures, and even computer rooms for viewing the collection on a screen.

To enrich your visit you may enjoy reading TFAO's Museums Explained. Also, to learn how museums put together exhibitions and tour them, please see TFAO's Planning, Organizing and Touring Art Exhibitions.

 

How TFAO updates calendars

Future calendars are updated in two ways:

Systematically:

On a bimonthly basis, TFAO volunteers review the Calendar Update Schedule (see A-C D-G H-L M-Q R-S T-Z) to locate museums for which their furthest exhibition closing month has expired. TFAO then reviews the current and future exhibition sections of websites of targeted museums for new information. TFAO then updates the Schedule's listings for the targeted museums with new information by listing on the schedule the earlier of: 1. the furthest exhibition closing month in time or 2. a month which TFAO deems important for follow up. As a part of this review TFAO also updates the related exhibition calendar to include information on newly discovered exhibitions.
 

Occasionally:

Future calendars and Calendar Update Schedules are checked and updated on a continuous basis as information is received by email from museum sources.

 

How TFAO uses calendars

Towards the end of each month TFAO volunteers review the calendar for all of the listed exhibition openings for that month. TFAO then reviews published exhibition articles and essays in the sub-index page for each related museum to determine if Resource Library has already published an article or essay concerning each calendar listing. If Resource Library has not yet published an article or essay, TFAO sends by email a request for exhibition information to the museum. TFAO sends requests near the end of the exhibition opening month to allow museums time to gather .jpg images and texts from gallery guides, brochures or catalogues, exhibition wall panels and labels, as well as press releases. TFAO requires six hundred or more words of text to publish a Resource Library article or essay for an exhibition.


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