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Exhibitions
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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 photographs
or slides. The information may be e-mailed to >
or mailed to Exhibitions, Maine Antique Digest, PO Box 1429, Waldoboro, ME 04572.
Count Bernard de Claviere d’Hust (1934-
2016), Dant Vires Gloriam (Strength Gives
Glory), oil on canvas, 38" x 51".
—Through March 25
—Charleston, South Carolina
Dog and Horse Fine Art is honoring one
of its artists with the exhibition Tribute to
Foremost Animalier, Count Bernard de
Claviere d’Hust. The artist described his
equine and canine paintings as “modern
from a classical perspective.” He said,
“The world of animals is very essential
to me. They create some kindness in our
lives, and to paint them gets one closer
to a sweetness in life that is disappearing
every day.”
Dog and Horse Fine Art is located
at 102 Church Street in Charleston.
Hours are Monday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information,
Jay Moore, Clean, Clear, and Pure, oil on
canvas, 24" x 36".
—Through April 8
—Scottsdale, Arizona
Trailside Galleries presents A Life
Outdoors, an exhibit of new works by
Colorado naturalist Jay Moore, who
portrays the grandeur of the American
West. According to Moore, “As an artist,
a painting is like a conversation: I hear
what the terrain says to me and respond on
canvas.” In addition to Moore’s artworks
of Colorado, this exhibit features scenes
of Hawaii, the California coast, and
Glacier National Park.
Trailside Galleries is located in Suite
100 at 7330 East Main Street, Civic Center
Plaza, in Scottsdale. Hours are Monday
through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For
more information, call (480) 945-7751 or
visit ).
Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Washington
Arch, Spring, circa 1893, 26 ⅛" x 21⅝". The
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
—Through May 21
—Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
The Brandywine River Museum of
Art is hosting From Homer to Hopper:
Experiment and Ingenuity in American
Art, organized by The Phillips Collection
of Washington, D.C. The collection,
founded in 1918 by Duncan Phillips,
has always championed Modernism and
American artists. Fifty-four paintings
are included in the exhibition, which
presents a thematic chronological journey
of Duncan Phillips’s broad collecting
interests.
The museum is located on Route 1 in
Chadds Ford. It is open daily, 9:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for
seniors, $6 for students and children age
six and up, and free for children five and
under and for Brandywine Conservancy
& Museum of Art members. For more
information, call (610) 388-2700 or visit
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Prayer bead with the Adoration of the Magi
and the Crucifixion, the Netherlands, early
16th century, boxwood, open 4½" x 3¼"
x 1⅛". The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
—Through May 21
—New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
presents Small Wonders: Gothic
Boxwood Miniatures, featuring nearly
50 intricately carved prayer beads and
diminutive altarpieces on view at the
Met Cloisters. The artists’ techniques
for creating these delicate works have
defied comprehension for centuries,
but now, through collaborative study
by conservators at The Met and the Art
Gallery of Ontario, their secrets have been
unraveled. The conservators’ findings will
be presented in the exhibition through
video documentation and the display of a
disassembled prayer bead.
The Met Cloisters is located 99
Margaret Corbin Drive in Fort Tryon Park
in New York City. It is open daily, 10 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m. Admission is $25 for adults,
$17 for seniors, $12 for students, and
free for children under 12 accompanied
by an adult and for members. For more
information, call (212) 923-3700 or visit
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Marc Chagall, Springtime in the Meadow
(detail), from “Daphnis and Chloe,” 1961,
lithograph. Collection of the McNay Art
Museum, gift of Mrs. Jerry Lawson. ©
2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York/ADAGP, Paris.
—Through May 21
—San Antonio, Texas
The McNay Art Museum presents
Sur Papier: Works on Paper by Renoir,
Chagall, and Other French Moderns to
complement the recently released book
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse,
1850-1950. The exhibition traces the
development of modern French art from
Realism to Impressionism and is drawn
entirely from the McNay Art Museum’s
collection. Some of the paintings have
not been on public view for over 25
years. Later the exhibition will travel to
the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida;
the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba,
Canada; and the Figge Art Museum in
Davenport, Iowa.
The McNay Art Museum is located at
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue in San
Antonio. Hours are Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday, 10
a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is
$10 for adults, $5 for seniors, students 20
and over, and active military, and free for
teens, children, and members. For more
information, call (210) 824-5368 or visit
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778),
Temple of Saturn, 1774, from the series
“Vedute di Roma,” etching and engraving.
—Through July 9
—Wellesley, Massachusetts
The Davis Museum atWellesley College
presents Reframing the Past: Piranesi’s
Vedute di Roma, a series of approximately
30 scenes of Rome that artist Giovanni
Battista Piranesi created between 1747
and 1778. The prints were produced for
visitors to the city as souvenirs of their
travels as part of the grand tour.
The Davis Museum is located at 106
Central Street in Wellesley. Hours are
Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. Admission is free. For more
information, call (781) 283-2051 or visit
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Jacob Frymire, portrait of Daniel Clarke,
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, proba-
bly 1791, oil on canvas. Courtesy the Art
Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.
—Opens May 6 (long-term exhibit)
—Williamsburg, Virginia
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk
Art Museum will show approximately
40 folk art portraits from its collection
to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the
museum. We the People: American Folk
Portraits will include paintings done by
artists with little or no formal training.
Some of the works that will be on view
have been recently added to the museum’s
collection.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk
Art Museum is located on the grounds of
Colonial Williamsburg at the intersection
of Francis and South Henry Streets in
Williamsburg. Tickets are available
to the museum only or as a part of a
combination pass to other facilities at
Colonial Williamsburg. For complete
information on hours and admission,
Alex Majoli (b. 1971), Scene #0435, Repub-
lic of Congo, 2013.
—Through April 1
—New York City
Howard Greenberg Gallery presents
SKĒNĒ, an exhibition of the photography
of Alex Majoli. According to the gallery,
Majoli “documents the thin line between
reality and theatre,” and his photos
“explore the human condition and call
into question darker elements of society.”
The photos were taken in Congo, Egypt,
Greece, Germany, India, China, and
Brazil between 2010 and 2016. The title
of the exhibit, SKĒNĒ, refers to a structure
forming the backdrop of an ancient Greek
theater.
Howard Greenberg Gallery is located in
the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street,
Suite 1406. Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more
information, call (212) 334-0010 or visit
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