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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 35-B
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Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions
planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six
weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admis-
sion charges, and phone number and Web site for further information. All listings must
include an image. Electronic images are preferred, but we can accept photographs or slides.
The information may be e-mailed to > or mailed to
Exhibitions, Maine Antique Digest, PO Box 1429, Waldoboro, ME 04572.
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Lisa Bradley (b. 1951), Without End, 2013,
oil on canvas, 50" x 40".
—Through February 28
—New York City
Hollis Taggart Galleries presents Lisa
Bradley: The Fullness of Being, featuring
over 30 paintings by abstract artist Lisa
Bradley dating from 1978 to the present.
A press release notes that “the series of
works illustrates the unique and personal
style in which Bradley arrives at a myste-
riously shifting balance between stillness
and motion.” A catalog accompanies the
exhibition.
Hollis Taggart Galleries is located at 958
Madison Avenue in New York City. Hours
are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For
more information, call (212) 628-4000 or
visit ).
Photo of Mike Noon, one of the last whalers
of Monterey Bay, sitting on a pile of whale
bones, with the coastline in the background,
1880-95.
—Through April 12
—San Diego, California
The Cabrillo National Monument is
hosting Yankee Baleeiros! The Shared
Legacies of Luso and Yankee Whalers, a
traveling exhibition from the New Bed-
ford (Massachusetts) Whaling Museum
that was in San Francisco through Decem-
ber 31, 2014. James Russell, president of
the New Bedford Whaling Museum, com-
mented in a press release, “San Francisco
was the whaling capital of the world after
New Bedford, which made it the logical
first stop for the whaling museum’s trav-
eling exhibition in California. The impor-
tance of Cabrillo National Monument to
the Portuguese diaspora makes San Diego
an equally significant destination to this
share this rich cultural narrative.” The
press release goes on to note that it was
“on whaling voyages during the 1800’s
that mariners from the Azores and Cabo
Verde first interacted with and often
joined the crew of New Bedford whal-
ing ships. New Bedford became the ver-
itable ‘Portuguese Ellis Island’ of North
America from the time of Yankee whaling
through the Industrial Revolution, as job
opportunities arose and as families joined
the already growing Portuguese commu-
nities in the area.”
The exhibition is housed in the View
Building of the Cabrillo National Monu-
ment, located at 1800 Cabrillo Memorial
Drive on Point Loma in San Diego. The
George Catlin (1796-1872), Buffalo Bull
Grazing on the Prairie, 1832-33, oil on canvas,
24" x 29". Smithsonian American Art
Museum, gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
—Through May 3
—Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Reynolda House Museum of Amer-
ican Art presents George Catlin’s Ameri-
can Buffalo. A press release notes that the
40 paintings by Catlin “chronicle the mas-
sive herds of buffalo roaming the Great
Plains and portray how truly embedded
they were in the daily lives of Ameri-
can Indian tribes. His brilliant canvases
showcase iconic scenes of the American
West and show how the buffalo was used
in multiple facets of daily life, from food
and shelter to ceremony and naming.”A
catalog accompanies the exhibition.
The Reynolda House is located at 2250
Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem. Hours
are Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 1:30 to 4:30
p.m. Admission is $14 for adults and free
for youths 18 and under, students, mil-
itary personnel, museum members, and
employees of Wake Forest University and
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. For
more information, call (888) 663-1149 or
visit ).
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), A Gallant Color
Bearer, detail of engraving, Harper’s
Weekly, September 20, 1862. Collection of
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum. Photo
courtesy Stan Freeny.
—Through August 23
—Morristown, New Jersey
The Macculloch Hall Historical
Museum presents The Civil War through
the Eyes of Thomas Nast. Nast was a
political cartoonist who illustrated Civil
War battles and Union and Confederate
troop movements as well as the difficul-
ties of life on the home front. He was a
contributor to Harper’s Weekly and often
stirred sentiments in support of the Union.
The museum is located at 45 Mac-
culloch Avenue in Morristown. The
museum is open for house and exhibit
tours Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
from 1 to 4 p.m. The last tours leaves at
3 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for
seniors and students, $4 for children six to
12, and free for members and for children
five and under. For more information, call
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), La
Maison de la Crau, 1888, oil on canvas,
32¾" x 28¾". Collection of Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, bequest of
A. Conger Goodyear, 1966. Photograph by
Tom Loonan.
—February 21-June 1
—Bentonville, Arkansas
The Crystal Bridges Museum of Amer-
ican Art will host Van Gogh to Rothko:
Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery. Seventy-five artworks by more
than 39 artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jack-
son Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe, Salvador
Dali, and Andy Warhol, dating from the
late 19th century to the present, will be
on view. The paintings are on loan from
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, located in
Buffalo, New York. This is the first time
that many of the works have toured in
decades. The exhibition begins with late
19th-century Post-Impressionism and
Modernism and also shows the contribu-
tions that various artists made toward the
development of Cubism, Surrealism, Pop
Art, and Minimalism.
Crystal Bridges Museum is located at
600 Museum Way in Bentonville. Hours
are Monday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m., Wednesday and Friday, 11 a.m. to
9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Admission to the exhibit is $10
for adults and free for youths 18 and under
and for members. For more information,
—March 2-June 14
—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Free Library of Philadelphia will
present Word & Image: Contemporary
Artists Connect to Fraktur, “a contem-
porary exhibition featuring the work of
seven renowned international artists that
provides a fresh take on traditional artis-
tic genres that combine text and image.”
Word & Image is part of “Framing Frak-
tur,” a three-month celebration of the his-
toric Pennsylvania German art form that
includes Quill & Brush , another exhibit
running concurrently with Word & Image.
Word & Image and Quill & Brush will
be mounted at the Free Library of Phil-
adelphia’s Parkway Central Library at
1901 Vine Street in Philadelphia. Hours
are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to
9 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Admission is free. For more information,
Jean-Michel Othoniel (b. 1964) in the Otho-
niel Studio, Paris, France.
—March 12-September 7
—Boston, Massachusetts
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
will present Secret Flower Sculptures in
its Hostetter Gallery. A press release notes
that glass-sculpting artist Jean-Michel
Othoniel “began working with glass in
the early 1990s after being introduced to
some of the finest glassmakers in Murano,
Italy. From 1996, he began placing glass
works into landscapes.... In later works...
Othoniel made blown-glass enigmatic
sculptures that resembled jewelry, archi-
tecture, and exotic objects.” Othoniel has
put together a book for the exhibit, The
Secret Language of Flowers. He has also
assembled a personal tour of the Gardner
Museum “drawing on discoveries that he
made during his artist-in-residency.”
The museum is located at 25 Evans
Way in Boston. It is open daily 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. and Thursday until 9 p.m. Admis-
sion is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $5
for students, and free for youths under 18,
members, everyone on his/her birthday,
and everyone named “Isabella.” For more
information, call (617) 278-5156 or visit
).
Whalebone corset, France, 1740-60, silk
satin damask, braided silk, linen bows cov-
ered in silk and decorated with metallic
thread, whalebone, and linen lining. Les
Arts Décoratifs, collection Mode et Textile.
Articulated pannier, France, circa 1770,
iron covered with leather, fabric tape. Les
Arts Décoratifs, depot du musée national
du Moyen Âge-Thermes et hotel de Cluny
2005. Photo ©Patricia Canino.
—April 3-July 26
—New York City
The Bard Graduate Center will host
an exhibition that was organized by and
shown at the Musée de la Mode in Paris in
2013. Fashioning the Body: An Intimate
History of the Silhouette will explore “the
extraordinary devices that women and
men have used to shape their bodies into
distinctive fashionable silhouettes” from
the 17th century to today. The exhibit will
present “a wide array of historical under-
garments alongside the fashions they
quite literally supported” and will illumi-
nate “the ways in which fashion’s ideal
forms, and the materials and technologies
that have been used to achieve them, have
evolved over the centuries.”
The Bard Graduate Center Gallery is
located at 18 West 86th Street in New
York City. Hours are Tuesday through
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday
until 8 p.m. Suggested gallery admission
is $7 for adults and $5 for seniors. For
more information, call (212) 501-3023 or
visit ).
park is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The admission fee is $5 per vehicle. For
more information, call (619) 557-5450 or
visit ).
Elaine Reichek, sampler, “Their Manners
Are Decorous and Praiseworthy,” 1992.
Photo courtesy the artist and Zach Feuer
Gallery, New York.