November and December, 2019 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions

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



 

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November

 

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

Neurofibromatosis: The People by Rachel Mindrup

November 15 through January 5

8/20 See coverage at Healing and Medicine Art

 

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275

November 13 through March 1

8/20 See coverage at Surrealism

 

Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art

Ernest Ochsner Retrospective

November 22 through February 16

8/20 See coverage at Nebraska Art History

 

Burchfield - Penney Art Center

In the Fullness of Time, Painting in Buffalo, 1832-1972

November 8 through March 1

8/20 See coverage at American 20th-21st Century Art by Decades

 

California Heritage Museum

On the Road: Paintings by Suong Yangchareon

November 23 through March 29

8/20 See coverage at California Artists: 19th-21st Century

 

Chrysler Museum of Art

Waterscape: Picturesque Views of Hampton Roads

November 1 through April 5

8/20 See coverage at Virginia Art History

 

Coral Springs Museum of Art

Wilma Siegel - Children of the Modern Family

December 3 through March 7

8/20 See coverage at Healing and Medicine Art

 

Dayton Art Institute

Art of Ernest Blumenschein

November 16 through February 23

8/20 researched

 

Delaware Contemporary

Look to the Land - A Mary Putman Retrospective

November 16 through April 15

8/20 See coverage at Delaware Art History

 

Detroit Institute of Arts

Michigan's Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash

November 16 through August  23

8/20 See coverage at Michigan Art History

 

Dubuque Museum of Art

The Poison Garden: Photographs by Molly Wood

November 2 through January 12

8/20 researched

 

Hudson River Museum

Thomas Cole's Refrain:The Paintings of Catskill Creek

November 22 through February 23

8/20 See coverage at New York Art History

 

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

De'VIA: The Manifesto Comes of Age

November 7 through February 16

8/20 See coverage at Healing and Medicine Art

 

Mennello Museum of American Art 

John Baker: Mind Wealth

November 20 through January 12

8/20 See coverage at urban theme photography

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Power of Vision: Mural on the Ave

November 21 through February 3

8/20 researched


Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College

The Life and Art of Mary Petty

November 5 through December 15

8/20 See coverage at cartoonists

 

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

From Southern Shores to Northern Vales: Alabama Landscapes, 1819-1969

November 9 through January 26

8/20 researched

 

National Museum of the American Indian

Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting

November 16 though Fall 2021

8/20 See coverage at American 20th-21st Century Art by Decades

 

Nevada Museum of Art

King of Beasts: A Study of the African Lion by John Banovich

November 9 through February 16

8/20 See coverage at Wildlife Art: 20-21st Century

 

New Orleans Museum of Art

Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana

November 16 through January 26

8/20 See coverage at Louisiana Art History

 

New-York Historical Society

Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville

November 1 through January 26

8/20 See coverage at District of Columbia Art History

 

Norman Rockwell Museum

The Spirit of Giving Illustrated

November 16 through February 17

8/20 researched

 

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Renewing the American Spirit: The Art of the Great Depression

November 2 through April 26

8/20 researched

 

Palm Springs Art Museum

Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe

November 23 through March 1

8/20 researched

 

Pérez Art Museum Miami

George Segal: Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael

November 22 through July 5

8/20 See coverage at Sculpture, Figurative

 

Portland Art Museum - Oregon

The Art of Reading: American Publishing Posters of the 1890s

November 16 through June 21

8/20 See coverage at Posters

 

Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Raid the Icebox Now with Triple Canopy - Can I Leave You?

November 22 through July 19

8/20 researched

 

Roswell Museum and Art Center

A Line in the Sand - A regional collaboration with 516ARTS

November 9 through May 24

8/20 researched

 

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

Adam Wolpert: Great Oaks

November 1 through December 29

8/20 researched

 

Smith College Museum of Art

A Dust Bowl of Dog Soup: Picturing the Great Depression

November 19, 2019 through May 24

8/20 researched

 

South Dakota Art Museum 

Amir Fallah: What it Means to be an American

November 1 through February 15

8/20 researched

 

Susquehanna Art Museum 

Dreams:  Selections from Easton Nights by Peter Ydeen

November 1 though January 12

8/20 See coverage at Pennsylvania Art History

 

Wildling Museum

Santa Barbara County & Beyond: Recent Photographic Landscapes By George Rose

November 1 through March 30

8/20 researched


 

December


Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art

Painting the American Southwest: The Work of Otto Plaug

December 21 through July 5

8/20 See coverage at Southwest Painting and Sculpture: 19th-21st Century

 

Baker Museum

Looking at Words: A Poetry of Shape

December 1 through April 5

8/20 See coverage at American 20th-21st Century Representational Art, Not Yet Classified

 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Rufus Porter's Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815­1860

December 12 through May 31

8/20 See coverage at Representational Art: 18-19th Century

 

 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870

December 12 through May 31

8/20 See coverage at Maine Art History

 

Cranbrook Art Museum

Christy Matson: Crossings

December 14 through March 15

8/20 researched

 

Cranbrook Art Museum

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969

December 1 through March 8

8/20 See coverage at Maine Art History

 

Griffin Museum of Photography

Industrial Gothic The Seattle Gas Works: Lee Cott

December 10 through January 3

8/20 See coverage at urban theme photography

 

Harwood Museum, University of New Mexico

Beatrice Mandelman: Overflowing With Color

December 13 through April 26

8/20 See coverage at Screen printing

 

Lehigh University Art Galleries

FaunaFold

December 7 through March 1

8/20 See coverage at Sculpture, Paper

 

Mead Art Museum

Embodied Taste

December 11 through July 26

8/20 See coverage at Food Depicted in American Art

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s-1860s

December 2 through May 10

8/20 researched


Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Water After All

December 14 through June 14

8/20 researched

 

Palm Springs Art Museum

John Divola - Zuma Series

December 14 through March 15

8/20 researched

 

Plains Art Museum

The Unchosen Ones: Photographs by R.J. Kern

December 5 through February 22

8/20 researched

 

Riverside Arts Center

RAC Spotlight: Jennifer Oldis-Kryczka

December 6 though January 4

8/20 researched

 

Wildling Museum

Remembering Bud Bottoms: A Legacy of Art and Activism

December 1 through December 31, 2020

8/20 See coverage at Sculpture, Animal

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