October, 2017 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions
American Representational Art Exhibitions Hosted by Art Museums and Other Non-Profit Organizations
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Patrick Dougherty: Stickwork at the Ackland
October 27 through August 31
12/2/17 see coverage at Sculpture: 20-21st Century
Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art
Paintings of Addy®: Dahl Taylor's Original Illustrations for American Girl
October 14 through June 3
12/2/17 researched
Connected Visions: Louisiana's Artistic Lineage
October 13 through September 1
12/2/17 researched
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
David Pettibone: Year with a Tree
October 6 through January 15
12/2/17 see coverage at Botanical Artists
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art
October 7 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Sporting Art
Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying
October 2 through March 23
12/2/17 see coverage at Figurative and Portrait Art: 20-21st Century
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Matrix 268: Veronica De Jesus
October 25 through February 2
12/2/17 see coverage at Drawings in American Art
Boston University Art Galleries
Geoffry Chadsey: Heroes and Secondaries
October 20 through December 10
12/2/17 see coverage at Drawings in American Art
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Touchstones, Totems, Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art
October 13 through February 11
12/2/17 see coverage at Wildlife Art: 20-21st Century
Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
Field Station: Duane Linklater
October 7 through December 10
12/2/17 researched
Roots of "The Dinner Party": History in the Making (Judy Chicago)
October 20 through March 4
12/2/17 see coverage at Installation Art
California African American Museum
Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés
October 25 through February 18
12/2/17 see coverage at Surrealism
Drawn from Nature and From Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane
October 7 through March 4
12/2/17 see coverage at Lithography
Territorial Hues: The Color Print and Washington State 1920-1960
October 5 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Washington State Art History
Requiem: Summer Mei Ling Lee
October 26 through December 23
12/2/17 see coverage at Asian-American Art
Ana Mendieta: Silueta Sangrienta
October 3 through December 17
12/2/17 see coverage at American portrait photography
Face Value: Artists' Portraits by Alphonse van Woerkom
October 6 through November 26
12/2/17 see coverage at Drawings in American Art
Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon
October 29 through February 4
12/2/17 see coverage at California Art History
An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan
October 21 through January 28
12/2/17 see coverage at Landscape Art: 19-20th Century
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
The Picerne Collection of Arizona Landmark Art
October 21 through March 4
12/2/17 researched
Church: A Painter's Pilgrimage
October 22 through January 15
12/2/17 see coverage at American Artist Paintings of Foriegn Scenes
Mark Weber: ANIMALS
October 27 through February 11
12/2/17 see coverage at Wildlife Art: 20-21st Century
Diminished: A Still Life, ceramic works by Doug Gray
October 12 through December 15
12/2/17 researched
Distinguished Visiting Artist: Robert Taylor
October 6 through December 30
12/2/17 see coverage at Figurative and Portrait Art: 20-21st Century
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
World War I and American Art
October 6 through January 21
12/2/17 see coverage at Military Art, WWI
Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist
October 6 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Landscape Art: 20-21st Century
Greenville County Museum of Art
Stephen Scott Young: Veterans
October 13 through Continuing
12/2/17 see coverage at Military Art, Other
Manoucher Yektai
October 21 through December 31
12/2/17 researched
Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy
October 6 through January 14
12/2/17 see coverage at Drawings in American Art
Of God and Mortal Men: Masterworks by T.C. Cannon from the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection
October 7 through April 15
12/2/17 researched
Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond
October 7 through January 21
12/2/17 see coverage at New York Art History
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America
October 8 through December 31
12/2/17 researched
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
October 4 through January 1
12/2/17 see coverage at Representational Art (other): 20-21st Century
International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Leather Quilts by Cathy Wiggins
October 10 through January 6
12/2/17 researched
Moods of California
October 7 through February 8
12/2/17 see coverage at California Art History
Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami
Pop Art Prints
October 5 through December 17
12/2/17 researched
Portrait of the Lost Cause: Paintings by Poindexter Page Carter (American, 1851-1921)
October 15 - ?
12/2/17 researched
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Wendell Castle Remastered
October 8 through December 31
12/2/17 see coverage at Furniture
Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki
October 7 through February 12
12/2/17 researched
Ryuta Nakajima: Squid and I, An Art and Science Symbiosis
October 6 through January 7
12/2/17 researched
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
October 19 though January 22
12/2/17 researched
East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
October 6 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Historic surveys of American photography
Northcutt Steele Gallery at Montana State University - Billings
Footprints on the Moon
October 19 through November 30
12/2/17 researched
Mysteries of the Mesa: the Restoration of William Robinson Leigh's "Thunder Mountain"
October 26 through February 27
12/2/17 researched
Jim Caldwell, Water Play: Nature's Abstracts from the Sky
October 29 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Marine, Coastal and Maritime Art: 20-21st Century
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Loaded Brush: The Oil Sketch and the Philadelphia School of Painting
October 5 through February 4
12/2/17 researched
Bill Rutherfoord: Allegory of No Region
October 7 through December 10
12/2/17 see coverage at Southern Art: 19th-21st
Century
The Wyeths: Three Generations
October 7 through January 28
12/2/17 see coverage at Illustrators
Princeton University Art Museum
Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
October 7 through January 7
12/2/17 see coverage at Important historic American photographers
Princeton University Art Museum
Rouge: Michael Kenna
October 14 through January 28
12/2/17 researched
Robert Burkert - Collection Focus
October 8 through February 4
12/2/17 researched
Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center
Western Traditions: Francis King Collection of Western Art
October 14 through January 14
12/2/17 researched
Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
October 19 through January 15
12/2/17 see coverage at American Artist Retrospective Exhibits
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
October 20 through January 28
12/2/17 see coverage at Installation Art
David Ligare: Concept to Canvas
October 14 through January 7
12/2/17 researched
Harvey Dunn: Night and Day
October 3 through February 10
12/2/17 see coverage at Illustrators
Paul Kane: Intrepid Artist and Adventurer
October 21 through June 2
12/2/17 researched
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors
October 14 through December 30
12/2/17 see coverage at Figurative and Portrait Art: 20-21st Century
University of California, Northridge, Art Galleries
The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca's Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete
October 14 through December 16
12/2/17 see coverage at Mural Art
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery
Resonance and Memory: The Essence of Landscape
October 5 through December 8
12/2/17 researched
Karen Knutson
October 15 through November10
12/2/17 researched
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
A Timeless Perfection: American Figurative Sculpture in the Classical Spirit - Gifts of Dr. Michael L. Nieland
October 7 through December 31
12/2/17 see coverage at Sculpture: 19-20th Century
William Benton Museum of Art at University of Connecticut
Living in Frames: Gendered Spaces
October 19 through December 17
12/2/17 researched
Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917
October 14 through February 25
12/2/17 see coverage at American Northeast photography
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