September, 2017 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions
American Representational Art Exhibitions Hosted by Art Museums and Other Non-Profit Organizations
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Bennett Bean: Be Careful What You Fall in Love With
September 16 through November 5
11/2/17 see coverage at Ceramic Tile and Pottery
Helen Siegl: Fantasy Creatures from the Museum's Collection
September 16 through November 26
11/2/17 see coverage at Printmaking, General / Unclassified
Refining & Defining a Nation: From Impressionism to Regionalism
September 22 through January 20
11/2/17 see coverage at Impressionism
The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society
September 29 through December 31
11/2/17 see coverage at Hudson River School
American Museum of Ceramic Art
Kukuli Velarde: Plunder Me, Baby
September 16 through January 28
11/2/17 see coverage at Ceramic Tile and Pottery
William Woodward: The Seven Deadly Sins
September 5 through December 17
11/2/17 researched
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Cruisin' the Eternal Coastline: The Best of the Fossil West from Baja to Barrow
Setpember 15 through April 8
11/2/17 researched
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
September 15 through December 31
11/2/17 researched
Art, Design & Architecture Museum (UC Santa Barbara)
Sacred Art in the Age of Contact: Chumash and Latin American Traditions in Santa Barbara
September 16 through December 8
11/2/17 see coverage at Religious Art
Inside the Outside: Five Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation
September 5 through September 27
11/2/17 researched
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic
September 20 through December 10
11/2/17 see coverage at American Visionary Art
Searching for Home
September 22 through March 25
11/2/17 see coverage at Sculpture: 20-21st Century
Morgan Bulkeley: Nature Culture Clash
September 29 through February 4
11/2/17 see coverage at Surrealism
California Historical Society Museum
¡Murales Rebeldes!: Contested Chicanao Public Art
September 4 through January 29
11/2/17 see coverage at Mural Art
Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser
September 15 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at American miscellaneous theme photography
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
September 30 through January 1
11/2/17 see coverage at Decorative arts and crafts: 20-21st Century
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation
September 8 through December 31
11/2/17 see coverage at Figurative and Portrait Art: 20-21st Century
Iconic Neo-POP
September 9 through November 18
11/2/17 researched
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
September 16 through January 1
11/2/17 see coverage at Modernism
Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers
September 2 through May 13
11/2/17 see coverage at Mural Art
Tableau: The Art of Richard Cleaver
September 16 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at Sculpture: 20-21st Century
Hebru Brantley
September 9 through November 26
11/2/17 see coverage at Illinois Art History
Fairfield University Art Museum
Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians
September 27 through December 20
11/2/17 see coverage at Native American
Art
Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine
September 16 through December 31
11/2/17 researched
World War I and the Lyme Art Colony
September 30 through January 28
11/2/17 see coverage at Connecticut Art History
Oscar Fehrer: Reflecting and Reflections
September 3 through January 28
11/2/17 see coverage at Connecticut Art History
Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris
September 23 through December 10
11/2/17 see coverage at Portrait and Figurative Art: 20-21st Century
Giertz Gallery at Parkland College
Stepping the Mast: Rob Millard-Mendez
September 25 through November 4
TOPIC: Sculpture: 20-21st Century
Allison V. Smith: Plain View
September 15 through February 10
11/2/17 researched
Jeremy Dennis: East Hampton Indigenous
September 28 through December 11
11/2/17 researched
American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart
September 21 through November 19
11/2/17 researched
Baseball: America's Game, Art and Objects from the Bank of America Collection
September 21 through November 19
11/2/17 researched
Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25
September 16 through December 22
11/2/17 see coverage at Lithography
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Sama Alshaibi: Silsila
September 9 through December 24
11/2/17 see coverage at American miscellaneous theme photography
Joe Zucker: Scrolls
September 7 through October 15
11/2/17 see coverage at Marine, Coastal and Maritime Art: 20-21st Century
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Darger + War: Violence and Loss in Self-Taught Art
September 15 through December 10
11/2/17 see coverage at Military Art, Other
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
Leo Twiggs: Requiem for Mother Emanuel
September 4 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at African-American Art
Sam van Aken: Streuobstwiese
September 12 through December 9
11/2/17 see coverage at Botanical Artists
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Sayaka Ganz: Reclaimed Creations
September 5 through December 23
11/2/17 researched
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Carrie Mae Weems: Ritual and Revolution
September 12 through December 10
11/2/17 see coverage at Installation Art
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Northwest Coast Art: A Community of Tradition
September 8 through March 4
11/2/17 researched
Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too
September 14 through January 14
11/2/17 see coverage at American miscellaneous theme photography
Picturing American Identity
September 12 through December 3
11/2/17 researched
Mennello Museum of American Art
Time & Thought: Art of the United States from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
September 19 through January 7
11/2/17 researched
Michener (James A.) Art Museum
A Time to Break Silence: Pictures of Social Change
September 9 through February 4
11/2/17 see coverage at American
social commentary photography
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Misty Keasler: Haunt
September 23 through November 26
11/2/17 see coverage at American architectural photography
Charles Burchfield: Weather Event
September 9 through January 6
11/2/17 researched
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Michael Rakowitz: Backstroke of the West
September 16 through March 4
11/2/17 see coverage at Installation Art
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Chip Simone: One Glass Eye, a Retrospective
September 23 through November 18
11/2/17 researched
New Britain Museum of American Art
Harry Everett Townsend: Illustrations of a World War I Artist
September 20 through January 7
11/24/17 see coverage at Military Art, WWI
Art & Environment: The Paintings of Andrew P. Hill
September 15 through February 4
11/2/17 see coverage at California Art History
Pictures & Windows, The Paintings of Christopher W. Benson from 1975 to 2017
September 30 through December 31
11/2/17 see coverage at Retrospective Exhibits
Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art
September 15 through January 21
11/2/17 see coverage at Military Art, WWII
Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
September 23 through December 31
11/2/17 researched
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art
Bob Durden: Earthly Delights
September 21 through December 28
11/2/17 see coverage at Encaustic Art in America
Penelope Umbrico: Screen Light
September 30 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at Installation Art
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Mark Adams
September 29 through November 12
11/2/17 researched
Paul Smith: Masters of Craft
September 17 through December 31
11/2/17 researched
Renaissance Society / University of Chicago
Jennifer Packer, Tenderheaded
September 9 through November 5
11/2/17 researched
Robert Hull Fleming Museum at University of Vermont
Herbert Barnett: Vermont Life and Landscape, 1940-1948
September 26 through December 15
11/2/17 see coverage at Vermont Art History
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper
September 15 through December 31
11/2/17 researched
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Evans
September 30 through February 4
11/2/17 researched
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art
Jacob Lawrence, Lines of Influence
September 7 through February 4
11/2/17 researched
Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
Leonard Baskin: Imaginary Artists
September 8 through October 21
11/2/17 researched
Nicola L.: Works, 1968 to the Present
September 18 through December 18
11/2/17 researched
Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert
September 23 through February 18
11/2/17 researched
Hooked on Patty Yoder
September 30 through January 21
11/2/17 researched
A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
September 29 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at Political Art
Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration
Fashion and Satire: Drawings of Orson Lowell and Charles Dana Gibson
September 5 through October 29
11/2/17 researched
Southeast Museum of Photography
Arno Minkkinen: In Retrospect
September 29 through October 29
11/2/17 researched
Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection
September 2 through January 7
11/2/17 researched
Wen-ti Tsen: Home Town: Re-presenting Boston's Chinatown as Place of People - Now and Then
September 12 through December 4
11/2/17 researched
Yuan Yunsheng: Chinese Myth, Folklore & History
September 12 through December 4
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University
Garden of Biotanical Delights: Diane Kempler
September 1 through January 6
11/2/17 see coverage at Botanical Artists
University Galleries at William Paterson University
For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Newark Library
September 11 through December 13
11/2/17 see coverage at Military Art, WWI
University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
James Innes: A Retrospective
September 9 through December 9
11/2/17 researched
University of California, Santa Barbara Art Museum
Sacred Art in the Age of Contact, Chumash and Latin American Traditions in Santa Barbara
September 16 through December 8
11/2/17 researched
University of Saint Joseph Art Museum
An American Artist: Thomas Hart Benton in the Permanent Collection
September 15 through December 17
11/2/17 researched
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Who Are We? Identity and the Contemporary Photographic Portrait
September 11 through December 7
11/2/17 see coverage at American portrait photography
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
small works, tall tales
September 16 through February 11
11/2/17 researched
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty
September 30 through January 7
11/2/17 researched
A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance
September 30 through January 1
11/2/17 see coverage at Retrospective Exhibits
Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography
September 5 through January 7
11/2/17 see coverage at American
social commentary photography
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