September, 2019 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions

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



 

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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy

A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in 19th-Century America

September 1 through July 31

5/20 See coverage at Representational Art: 18-19th Century

 

Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art

Joseph Hidley: Folk Artist

September 7 through December 1

5/20 See coverage at New York Art History

 

Amon Carter Museum

Seeing in Detail - Scott and Stuart Gentling's Birds of Texas

September 14 through December 1

5/20 researched

 

Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery

Foodie Fever

September 24 through November 1

5/20 researched

 

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence

September 29 through January 5

5/20 researched

 

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

Hammer Projects: Max Hooper Schneider

September 21 through February 2

5/20 researched

 

Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

The Art and Landscape Architecture of Isabelle Greene

September 28 through December 8

5/20 researched

 

Birmingham Museum of Art

Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now

September 28 through January 12

5/20 See coverage at American Papercut Art

 

Brigham Young University Museum of Art

Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine

September 13 through December 2021

5/20 researched

 

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze

September 29 through January 5

5/20 See coverage at Portraiture - Miscellaneous

 

Claremont Museum of Art

James Strombotne Paints All He Can Imagine

September 21 through December 1

5/20 See coverage at California Artists: 19th-21st Century

 

Chrysler Museum of Art

Agony and Ecstasy: Contemporary Stained Glass by Judith Schaechter

September 20 through January 5

5/20 See coverage at Glass Art

 

Columbus Museum - Georgia

Please Have a Seat: A Survey of American Chairs 1820 - 2020

September 14 through February 23

5/20 researched

 

Colby College Museum of Art

I Am Not a Stranger: Portraits by Séan Alonzo Harris

September 1 through December 15

5/20 researched

 

Crocker Art Museum

Pueblo Dynasties: Master Potters from Matriarchs to Contemporaries

September 2 through January

5/20 See coverage at Pottery

 

Dayton Art Institute

William Preston Mayfield Photographs

September 21 through January 5

5/20 researched

 

Figge Art Museum

John Dilg - Arterial Resources

September 14 through January 5

5/20 See coverage at American Visionary Art

 

Fisher Museum of Art

Facing Survival | David Kassan

September 18 through December 7

5/20 See coverage at Portraiture - Miscellaneous

 

Gibbes Museum of Art

Rauschenberg in Charleston

September 13 through January 5

See coverage at South Carolina Art History

 

Giertz Gallery, Parkland College

Jessica Gondek: Enterprising Machines

September 30 through November 2

Site unavailable

 

Gilcrease Museum

Dorothea Lange's America

September 13 through January 5

5/20 See coverage at social commentary photography

 

Grace Museum

Hung Liu: The Long Way Home

September 7 through February 22

5/20 See coverage at Asian-American Art

 

Hallie Ford Museum of Art , Willamette University

Make Your Mark: Prints from the Rick Bartow Print Archive

September 14  through December 20

5/20 See coverage at Oregon Art History

 

Hilliard Museum

Sharon Kopriva: No Small Thing

September 13 through January 4

5/20 See coverage at Religious Art

 

Hudson River Museum

James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew

September 27 through February 16

5/20 See coverage at New York Art History

 

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon

Resistance as Power: A Curatorial Response to Under the Feet of Jesus

September 7 through February 23

5/20 researched

 

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

Where We Stand: Black Artists in Southwest Michigan

September 13 through December 8

5/20 See coverage at Michigan Art History

 

Lehigh University Art Galleries

Crochet Coral Reef: By Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring

September 1 through December 7

5/20 researched

 

Maitland Art Center

Sweet, Fresh, Juicy: Florida Oranges in Art and History

September 2 through January 5

5/20 researched

 

McMullen Museum of Art

William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape

September 9 through December 8

See coverage at Landscape Painting: 18-19th Century

 

Mennello Museum of American Art 

Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers

September 20 through January 12

5/20 researched

 

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Artists Respond:  American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

September 29 through January 5

5/20 researched

 

Missoula Art Museum

Ken Little: Trophy Room 

September 14 through December 28

5/20 researched

 

Missoula Art Museum

Lillian Pitt: Honoring My Ancestors 

September 20 through February 22

 

Montclair Art Museum

Impossible Shadows: The Art of Larry Kagan

September 14 through January 5

 

Montclair Art Museum

Virgil Ortiz: Odyssey of the Venutian Soldiers Exhibition

September 13 through June 14

5/20 researched

 

Morris Museum of Art

The Eugene Fleischer Collection of Studio Art Glass

September 21 through December 31

5/20 researched

 

Museum of American Bird Art

The Peace of Wild Things -- Herons & Egrets Through the Lens of B.A. (Tony) King

September 28 through January 19

5/20 researched

 

Museum of the Southwest

Dirk Fowler: Paperwork: Letterpress and Screen-Printed Posters

September 20 through November 17

5/20 researched

 

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Golden Prospects: California Gold Rush Daguerreotypes

September 6 through January 26

5/20 See coverage at historic photographic processes

 

Pomona College Museum of Art

Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris

September 3 through May 17

5/20 researched

 

Reading Public Museum

Picturing Pennsylvania Barns

September 15 through January 5

5/20 See coverage at Pennsylvania Art History

 

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

Latoya Ruby Frazier The Last Cruze

September 14 through December 1

5/20 See coverage at Ohio Art History

 

Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Raid the Icebox Now with Paul Scott - New American Scenery

September 13 through September 6

5/20 researched

 

Richmond Art Center

Pause, Gap, Omission: New work by Stephen Namara

September 10 through November 22

5/20 researched

 

Robert Hull Fleming Museum

Contemporary Voices of Vermont

September 10 through May 8

5/20 researched

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art

September 29 through  February 16

5/20 researched

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840 - 1860

September 8  through December 8

5/20 researched

 

Shelburne Museum

Joel D. Barber (1876-1952)

September 14 through January 12

5/20 See coverage at Birds in American Art

 

Sid Richardson Museum

A Fortune In Oils: Sid Richardson's Personal Collection

September 14 through March 31

5/20 researched

 

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Foundling

September 14 through December 22

5/20 See coverage at Portraiture - Children

 

Springville Museum of Art

Self: Explorations of Identity

September 4 through May 16

5/20 See coverage at Portraiture - Artist Self-Portraiture

 

Tampa Museum of Art

Purvis Young: 91

September 12 through January 26

5/20 researched

 

UCI Institute and Museum of California Art

El Camino del Oro

September 14 through January 11

See coverage at California Art History

 

University Art Museum, Colorado State University 

The Moon Museum: Unofficial Art on Apollo 12

September 24 through December 14

5/20 researched

 

University Galleries, William Paterson University

The World Through My Eyes: Celebrating the Legacy of Ben Shahn

September 9 through December 11

5/20 See coverage at Portrait and Figurative Art: 19-20th Century

 

University of Hawaii Art Gallery / John Young Museum of Art

Francis Haar: Disappearing Honolulu

September 15 through December 8

5/20 See coverage at Hawaii Art History

 

University of Kentucky Art Museum

Laura Letinsky: Recent Works

September 14 through December 8

5/20 researched

 

University of Maine Museum of Art

Entangled - Nina Jerome

September 13 through December 21

5/20 researched

 

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

echard wheeler: in stillness

September 21 through  February 16

5/20 See coverage at Virginia Art History

 

Woodmere Art Museum

Our Town: A Retrospective of Edith Neff

September 21 through January 19

5/20 See coverage at Pennsylvania Art History

 

Zimmerli Art Museum

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

September 3 through January 5

5/20 researched



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