October, 2020 National Calendar of Art Exhibitions
American Representational Art Exhibitions Hosted by Art Museums and Other Non-Profit Organizations
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Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Inside Outside: paintings by Dan Annarino
October 2 through March 12
See coverage at Indiana Art History
An Epic of Earth and Water: Clare Leighton and the "New England Industries
October 5 through May 2
Researched 4/21
Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art & the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch
October 10 through April 25
See coverage at Southwest Painting and Sculpture: 19th-21st Century
Indians & Cowboys: Redefined by Duke & Woodard
October 22 through February 21
Researched 4/21
Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children
October 4 through January 10
Researched 4/21
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment
October 28 through January 17
Off-Site | American Paintings from the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection, 1850-1940
October 15 through December 20
Kiowa Agency: Stories of the Six
October 1 through January 17
Giertz Gallery, Parkland College
Calamitous Microcosm: An Online Exhibition of Artwork by Jave Yoshimoto
October 19 through November 20
Weaving History into Art: The Enduring Legacy of Shan Goshorn
October 9 through March 28
Mathias J. Alten: An Enduring Legacy?
October 24 through April 24
Hand and Machine in Harmony: Regional Arts & Crafts
October 24 through January 23
An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018
October 24 through January 24
Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns
October 11 through January 10
Researched 4/21
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
October 22 through February 14
Researched 4/21
See coverage at Southern and Southeast photography
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design
October 24 through January 17
See coverage at Academies, Associations, Ateliers and Societies
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Mimi Gross: The Arrival, 1620
October 2 through January 31
Researched 4/21
Reflections en Estambre
October 2 through November
Researched 4/21
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art
Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud
October 3 through June 13
See coverage at Installation Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
David Park: A Retrospective
October 4 through January 18
1/21 See coverage at California Artists: 19th-21st Century
A Splendid Century: Cincinnati Art 1820-1920
October 3 through January 24
Researched 4/21
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