July and August, 2019 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions

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



 

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July

 

Bedford Gallery

BLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art

July 14 through September 15

1/20 See coverage at Sculpture, Unclassified

 

Burchfield - Penney Art Center

From The Wealth Of Transport, The Artists Of Lockport 

July 12 through September 29

1/20 See coverage at New York Art History

 

Clark (Sterling and Francine) Art Institute

Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow

July 4 through October 6

1/20 See coverage at Retrospective Exhibits

 

Cranbrook Art Museum

For the Record: Artists on Vinyl

July 13 through April 19

1/20 See coverage at Music Themes in American Art

 

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / de Young Museum

Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin

July 13 through October 6

1/20 See coverage at American Tattoo Art

 

Fresno Art Museum

Nick Potter: Constructed Utopias

July 20 through January 5

1/20 See coverage at Hyperrealism

 

Fresno Art Museum

Catie O'Leary: A Natural History of Collage

July 20 through January 5

1/20 See coverage Collage Art

 

Harwood Museum, University of New Mexico

Susan Folwell: Through the Looking Glass

July 5 through January 5

1/20 See coverage at Pottery

 

Hudson River Museum

Self in the City: Highlights from the Collections of the HRM & Art Bridges

August 14 through August 9

Huntington Museum of Art

Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day

July 20 through October 6

1/20 See coverage at Birds in American Art

 

Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art

Optical Bouquet: Jennifer Zwick

July 4 through December 31

1/20 researched

 

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Dr. Charles Smith's African-American Heritage Museum + Black Veterans Archives, 1986-

July 1 through June 21

1/20 See coverage at Sculpture, Figurative

 

Michener (James A.) Art Museum

Harry Leith-Ross: Scenes from Country Life

August 10 through February 9

1/20 See coverage at Pennsylvania Art History

 

Mobile Museum of Art

Lee M. Hoffman: A Legacy

July 12 through January 5

1/20 See coverage at Alabama Art History

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death

July 13 through February 23

1/20 researched

 

New Britain Museum of American Art

Chairway to Heaven: A Celebration of Shaker Seating Furniture

July 7 through February 2

1/20 See coverage at Furniture

 

Norton Museum of Art

Film Posters from the Dwight M. Cleveland Collection

July 12 through October 29

1/20 See coverage at Motion Picture Animation, Posters and Related Topics

 

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Mario Petrirena

August 1 through September 8

1/20 researched

 

Peabody Essex Museum

Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker

July 13 through November 11

1/20 See coverage at American miscellaneous theme photography


Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

Regeneración / Justin Favela

July 5 through October 20

1/20 researched

 

South Bend Museum of Art

Anita Dawson

July 13 through September 22

1/20 researched

 

South Dakota Art Museum 

Harvey Dunn: Imagining Others

August 13 through May 3

1/20 See coverage at South Dakota Art History

 

Telfair Museums

Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River 

July 12 through September 29

1/20 See coverage at historic photographic processes

 

Tucson Museum of Art

Harold Joe Waldrum: Las Sombras

July 14 through September 29

1/20 See coverage at New Mexico Art History

 

Yellowstone Art Museum

Clyde Butcher: America the Beautiful

July 19  through September 13

1/20 researched

 

 

August

 

Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art

Braceros - Melding History and Art

August 1 through November 17

3/20 See coverage at Figurative Painting - Miscellaneous

 

Cape Ann Museum

Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880

August 3 through December 1

3/20 See coverage at Marine, Coastal and Maritime Art: 18-19th Century

 

Frost (Patricia and Phillip) Art Museum, Florida International University

South Beach, 1977-1986: Photographs by Gary Monroe

August 17 through December 8

3/20 See coverage at leisure theme photography

 

Grace Hudson Museum

Stitching California: Fiber Artists Interpret the State's People, Life, and Land 

August 17 through January 5

3/20 See coverage at Quilts

 

Grand Rapids Art Museum

Billy Mayer: The Shape of Things

August 24 through February 2

3/20 See coverage at  Michigan Art History

 

Harvard Art Museums

Winslow Homer: Eyewitness

August 31 through January 5, 2020

3/20 See coverage at Military Art, Civil War

 

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University

Southern Interiors: Photographs from The Do Good Fund

August 10 through January 5

3/20 See coverage at Southern and Southeast photography

 

Lancaster Museum of Art and History

LA Painting: Formalism to Street Art

August 10 through October 27

3/20 researched

 

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

What Lies Beneath: Masonite and American Art of the 20th Century

August 15 through November 17

3/20 See coverage at Southern States Painting: 19th-21st Century

 

Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College

American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection

August 29 through October 27

3/20 researched

 

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

San Ildefonso Pottery: 1600 - 1930

August 11 through August 31

3/20 See coverage at Pottery

 

Nasher Museum of Art

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950 to Now

August 29 through January 12

3/20 See coverage at Native American Art

 

New Britain Museum of American Art

The Art and Artists of Monhegan Island: Selections from the Charles J. and Irene Hamm Collection of Coastal Art

August 15 through August 30, 2020

3/20 See coverage at Maine Art History

 

Newcomb Art Museum

Newcomb Pottery Through the Years

August 1 through ongoing

3/20 See coverage at Pottery

 

New-York Historical Society

Panoramas: The Big Picture

August 16 through December 8

See coverage at Panoramas

 

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art

August 28 through December 8

See coverage at Tonalism

 

Susquehanna Art Museum

Hidden City - Valeri Larko

August 23 through November 17

3/20 See coverage at  Architectural and Urban Landscape Painting

 

Taubman Museum of Art

Julie Speed: East of the Sun and West of the Moon

August 31 through March 15

3/20 See coverage at Surrealism

 

Ulrich Museum of Art

Lowell Nesbitt: Apollo, 1969

August 19 through November 17

3/20 researched

 

William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut

The Lure of Cuba: Reginald Marsh's Tropical Watercolors, 1924-1930

August 23 through October 13

3/20 See coverage at Artists Abroad


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How TFAO updates calendars
 
How TFAO uses the National Calendar of Art Exhibitions
 

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