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(above: John Francis Murphy, Sunset, 1895, Toledo Museum of Art, Gift of Julia Paige Norton. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Tamayo: The New York Years is a 2017 exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum which says: "Tamayo: The New York Years is the first exhibition to explore the influences between this major Mexican modernist and the American art world. It reveals how a Mexican artist forged a new path in the modern art of the Americas and contributed to New York's dynamic cultural scene as the city was becoming a center of postwar art." Also see press release Accessed 12/17

Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration is a 2023 exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum which says: "The exhibition reassembles the paintings that were in Cole's studio when he died in 1848 and explores the significance of Cole's late work for art in America. Thomas Cole was the founder of the Hudson River School. This group of painters established an iconic style of American landscape painting. Accessed 10/23

Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs is a 2018 exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York which says: "Stanley Kubrick was just 17 when he sold his first photograph to the pictorial magazine Look in 1945. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, and capturing the pathos of ordinary life with a sophistication that belied his young age." Accessed 6/18

The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting is a 2018 exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art which says: "Tiles formed only a small part of the Club's output. Members made excursions to Long Island and up the Hudson River to sketch and paint. These trips were lively journeys, and the works completed during them document the first plein-air painting organization in the young nation. Tiles, paintings, sculptures, and sketches - many by distinguished artists working early in their careers - are showcased in this exhibition." Link provided by museum to 136-page online catalog which includes illustrated biographies of members. Accessed 3/18

Time Share: An Historic Collaboration, an exhibit held October 23, 2010 - May 29, 2011 at the Burchfield - Penney Art Center. Includes historic artists of Western New York. Accessed August, 2015

Thomas Cole's Refrain:The Paintings of Catskill Creek is a 2019 exhibit at the Hudson River Museum which says: "Thomas Cole's Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek, will illuminate masterpieces from major museums and private collections, and explore the deeper meanings of Cole's Catskill Creek paintings, considered as an integral series, for the first time." Accessed 8/20

20/20 Vision: Women Artists in Western New York is a 2020 exhibit at the Castellani Art Museum which says: "We are shown landscapes that are sometimes cold, but sometimes green and growing, as well as portrayals of family and friends, and artworks that address some of society's darker social issues." Accessed 11/20

Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900-1940 is a 2017 exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art which says: "The group of print artists featured in this exhibition resisted the trend towards abstraction, choosing instead to represent the human figure in the urban environment." Accessed 4/17

Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond is a 2017 exhibit at the Hudson River Museum which says: "Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond examines the key role played by artists in bringing views of nature indoors - in a domestic or gallery setting - while inspiring our own outdoor itineraries. Forty paintings and prints from the Museum's permanent collection from the 19th century to today, more than half recent acquisitions on view for the first time, underscore the centrality of landscape in our thought, then as now." Also see press release Accessed 12/17

Weegee's Story: From the Berinson Collection was a 2001-2 exhibit from the Philadelphia Art Alliance, which said: "Weegee's composite "portrait" of Manhattan documents an era and stands as an examplar of avant-garde photography...This exhibition was organized by the Rupertinum Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria, and selected from one of the world's premier private collection of Weegee photographs." Accessed 1/17

Western New York Collects: Allan D'Arcangelo is a 2019 exhibit at the Castellani Art Museum which says: "Starting with the 1964 New York World's Fair, he executed numerous mural commissions, both public and private. D'Arcangelo was the recipient of a 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellowship." Also see biography in Wikipedia Audited 4/20

What is Western New York Art? is an article by Nancy Weekly, Head of Collections and the Charles Cary Rumsey Curator, Burchfield Penney Art Center Accessed 2/20

Boston Athenaeum partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for a series of lectures, including several on American art. They are available by internet search. Titles include: "Familiar Faces: Gilbert Stuart's George and Martha Washington," (53 minutes) [March 21, 2006]; "New York World: Graphic Art on Sunday (1898-1911)," 1 hour, 18 minutes) [December 6, 2005]; "Hudson River School of American Landscape Painting," [1 hour, 11 minutes], a general introduction to the famous Hudson River School of American landscape painting [April 19, 2005]; "Role of the Academy and in American Art," (1 hour, 5 minutes) [March 29, 2005]

(above: George Bellows, The Teamster, 1916, oil on canvas, 38 ? 44 inches, Farnsworth Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Noyce, 1997. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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