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Exhibitions
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954),
Icare (Icarus), number eight of 20 in
“Jazz” (detail), 1947, stencil, litho-
graph, pochoir, 25½" x 16½".
—Through December 31
—Portland, Maine
The Portland Museum of Art (PMA)
presents The Art Books of Henri Matisse.
The museum’s website notes that “in the
1930s the pioneering French artist Henri
Matisse began to produce book illus-
trations and artist books. Over the next
two decades, he completed a dozen book
projects, working with a variety of print-
ing techniques to explore the relationship
between image and text—both visually
and thematically.” This is the first solo
Matisse exhibit to appear at the PMA.
The PMA is located at 7 Congress
Square in Portland. Hours are Wednes-
day, Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m., and Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m.
to 8 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults,
$13 for seniors, $10 for students with ID,
and free for children 14 and under and
members. Admission is free on Friday
evenings from 4 to 8 p.m. For information,
The Champions of the Mississippi,
“A Race for the Buckhorns,” Frances
B. Palmer, hand-colored lithograph,
Currier & Ives, lithographers and pub-
lishers, New York City, 1866. From a
private collection.
—Through January 8, 2017
—Wilmington, Delaware
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
announces Lasting Impressions: The
Artists of Currier & Ives, an exhibition
of some of today’s most sought-after
works that explores the role of Frances
(“Fanny”) Bond Palmer (1812-1876) and
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905), two
of the most prolific artists for the iconic
publisher of Christmas cards and Amer-
icana. More than 40 works are on view
from the Winterthur collection and from
other collections. The museum notes that
“Palmer’s work at Currier & Ives remains
significant for her talent and integral role
as a designer and artist at the firm. She
produced images that have become icons
of 19th-century America....While famous
for her picturesque prints, she is perhaps
most remarkable as the only woman at the
time to have successfully built a career
in the field. Palmer and her husband first
worked together at F. & S. Palmer lithog-
raphers in England. After moving to New
York in 1844, she opened her own work-
shop and worked with Currier & Ives
as an independent contractor. When she
wasn’t producing prints for Currier &
Ives, Palmer trained men in the technique
that had brought her so much success.”
Winterthur is located at 5105 Kennett
Pike in Wilmington. Hours are Tuesday
through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admis-
sion is $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and
students, $5 for children two to 11, and
free for children under two and for mem-
bers. For more information, call 1-800-
448-3883 or visit ).
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916),
The Big Bayberry Bush, circa 1895, oil
on canvas. Parrish Art Museum, Little-
john collection.
—Through January 16, 2017
—Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
presents William Merritt Chase, the first
retrospective of the artist’s career in
over three decades. Approximately 80
of Chase’s oils and pastels drawn from
public and private collections are on view.
Themuseum’swebsite encourages visitors
to “rediscover this important and over-
looked master, praised for his artistic
skill in both oil and pastel, as well as for
the variety of his subjects: sympathetic
images of women, jewel-like landscapes,
views of urban parks, and scenes of
children at play.” A catalog is available.
The museum is located at 465 Hunting-
ton Avenue in Boston. Hours are Saturday
through Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 10
p.m. Admission is $25 for adults, $23 for
seniors and students, and free for youths
17 and under and for members. For more
information, call (617) 267-9300 or visit
).
Robert Beck, Tomorrow’s Bait, 2015, oil
on panel, 24" x 24".
—Through January 22, 2017
—Bath, Maine
Over East, an Artist’s Journal: Paint-
ings by Robert Beck of the Contemporary
Maritime Community is now on view at
the Maine Maritime Museum. The muse-
um’s website notes that “this exhibition
of more than 40 paintings is a close and
personal look at how life is lived in
working villages along the coast, as seen
through the eyes and words of an accom-
plished painter. It is a celebration of the
spirit, the character, and the reality still to
be found Over East. These images of the
working life and landscape from Maine
coastal towns have been brought together
for the first time at Maine Maritime
Museum to form a ‘visual essay’ about
today’s maritime community.”
The museum is located at 243 Wash-
ington Street in Bath. Hours are 9:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $15.50 for
adults, $14 for seniors, $10 for children
six to 12, and free for children under six
and for members. For more information,
Corner cupboard, circa 1814, walnut,
attributed to Thomas Lincoln (1778-
1851), Abraham Lincoln’s father.
Courtesy Speed Art Museum, Louis-
ville, Kentucky.
—Through February 12, 2017
—Louisville, Kentucky
The Frazier History Museum presents
Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts
and American Culture in celebration of the
80th anniversary of the Federal Art Proj-
ect’s Index of American Design, which
was part of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administra-
tion/Federal Art Project during the Great
Depression. The New Deal provided
work for over 400 artists, including many
Kentuckians, documenting in watercolor
renderings the American material culture
of the 1800s. The exhibition features 20
of these watercolors along with many of
the original objects from Kentucky. A
companion book is also available.
The museum is located at 829 West
Main Street in Louisville. Hours are Mon-
day through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $12
for adults, $10 for seniors and military, $8
for children ages five to 17 and college
students with ID, and free for members,
children four and under, and K-12 teach-
ers from Kentucky and Indiana. For more
information, call (502) 753-5663 or visit
).
This cabriolet sleigh, built by J. Joseph
Saurin of Quebec City, represented
Canada in the Crystal Palace Exhibi-
tion in London in 1851, the first world’s
fair. Musées de la civilization.
—Through April 17, 2017
—Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
The Canadian Museum of History
presents Horse Power-The Paul Bienvenu
Carriage Collection. The museum’s web-
site states that “exquisite craftsmanship
combines with the romance of bygone
days” in this exhibition of 18 restored
horse-drawn sleighs and carriages, hand-
crafted between 1770 and 1950, that once
transported Catholic cardinals, Montreal
millionaires, and governors general. Each
phaeton, coach, hansom cab, or brougham
sleigh showcases a different regional
style and demonstrates how climate and
geography influenced design in the era of
horse-powered transportation. The col-
lection is on loan from Quebec’s Musées
de la civilization and is recognized as a
Canadian cultural treasure.
The museum is located at 100 Laurier
Street in Gatineau, Quebec. Hours are
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admis-
sion is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $11
for students, $9 for children three to 12,
and free to members and volunteers. For
more information, call 1-800-555-5621 or
visit ).
Sun Xun (b. 1980, Fuxin, Liaoning
province), Mythological Time (details),
2016, two-channel color HD animated
video, with sound and ink, graphite,
and acrylic on mulberry bark paper.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York City. The Robert H. N. Ho
Family Foundation Collection, acquisi-
tion in process, © Sun Xun.
—Through March 10, 2017
—New York City
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
presents Tales of Our Time, an exhibi-
tion featuring eight newly commissioned
large-scale works by artists born in main-
land China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. Press
materials state that “though diverse in
subjects and strategies, the works are
united by the artists’ use of storytelling
to propose alternative ways of looking
at place. Working in drawing, animation,
video, photography, sculpture, installa-
tion, and participatory intervention, the
artists in the exhibition address the con-
cept of geography and territory in ways
as specific as where they are based or
as big as China itself, which they see as
a concept constantly being questioned
and reinvented.” The artists represented
are Chia-En Jao, Kan Xuan, Sun Xun,
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Tsang Kin-Wah,
Yangjiang Group, and Zhou Tao.”
“The artists…vary greatly in their
practices and viewpoints,” said curator
Xiaoyu Weng. “But they share a broad
perspective, one that places China’s cul-
ture, history, and social reality in the con-
text of the wider world.”
The Guggenheim is located at 1071
Fifth Avenue in New York City. Hours
are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., and
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. Admission
is $25 for adults, $18 for students and
seniors, and free for children under 12 and
for members. After 5:45 p.m. on Satur-
days, admission is “pay what you wish.”
For more information, call (212) 423-
3500, or visit ).
Pair of hinges, Pennsylvania, possibly
1760-1800, wrought iron. Gift of James
C. Sorber.
—Ongoing exhibition,
opening November 24
—Williamsburg, Virginia
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk
Art Museum of Colonial Williamsburg
announces From Forge to Furnace: A
Celebration of Early American Iron. The
exhibition will feature approximately 100
iron items ranging from weathervanes and
tools to kitchen equipment—both decora-
tive and utilitarian.
The museum is located on the grounds
of Colonial Williamsburg at the intersec-
tion of Francis and South Henry Streets
in Williamsburg. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7
p.m. daily. Tickets are available to the
museum only or as a part of a combina-
tion pass to other facilities at Colonial
Williamsburg. For complete information
on hours and admission, call (757) 220-
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,
admission charges, and phone number and
website for further information. All listings
must include an image. Electronic images
are preferred, but we can accept photo-
graphs or slides. The information may be
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