2009 National Calendar
of Exhibitions
American Representational
Art Exhibitions Hosted by Art Museums and Other Non-Profit Organizations
January
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- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Art and the East
- January 30 through April 19
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- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts
- George Tooker: A Retrospective
- January 30 through April 5
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- Sordoni Art Gallery
- Painting the Beautiful: Impressionist Paintings from the James A. Michener
Art Museum
- January 28 through March 16
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February
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- Albany (NY) Institute of History
and Art
- HUDSON RIVER PANORAMA: 400 Years of History, Art and Culture
- February 7 through January 3
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- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
- Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
- February 7 through May 10
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- Seattle Art Museum
- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the
Yale University Art Gallery
- February 26 through May 24
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- Spertus Museum
- African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
- February 6 through July 5
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March
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- Detroit Institute of Arts
- American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
- March 8 through May 31
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- Fresno Metropolitan Museum
- Anna Richards Brewster: American Impressionist
- March 28 through June 14
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- Society of the Four Arts
- Palm Beach, FL
- 561-655-7227
- March 13 through April 19
- American Impressionist Painting from The Phillips Collection
April
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May
- Crocker Art Museum
- Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
- May 8 through July 17
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- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Art of the Harlem Renaissance from the African Diaspora
- May 30 through August 16
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June
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- Mint Museum of Art / Mint Museum
of Craft+Design
- The Nelson and Gretchen Grice Collection of Native American Art
- June 20 through September 13
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- National Museum
of Mexican Art
- Translating Revolution: American Artists Interpret Mexican Muralism
- June 19 through September 30
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July
- Wichita Art Museum
- Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
- July 30 through October 11
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August
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September
- Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
- Glackens as Illustrator
- September 5 through May 3
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
- September 4 through November 29
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October
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- Delaware Art Museum
- Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
- October 29 through January 10
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November
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- Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
- American Chronicles: Norman Rockwell
- November 14 through February 7
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December
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Return to annual Calendars of Exhibitions
What is included
These calendars reference exhibitions devoted primarily to American
representational art. Not all exhibitions submitted to TFAO are included
in calendars.
Excluded content includes:
- group exhibitions of artist organizations, faculties and students at
museums or art centers
- exhibits not deemed to be balanced in favor of American representational
art
- photography exhibits that feature photo-journalism or are by emerging
photographers
- computer-generated art exhibits
- video exhibits
Revisions of dates are accepted and encouraged in order for calendars
to be as accurate as possible. Exhibition dates may and do change without
notice. The deadline for inclusion in a current monthly calendar is the
first day of that month.
To make the most of your visit to an exhibition
If you are touring, you will find American representational
art venues to visit in Sources
of News Articles Indexed by State within the United States.
Call the museum in advance to see if you:
- can join a docent tour to interpret the exhibition
- need to make a reservation to have lunch in the
museum cafe
- can take your camera with you to take pictures
of the art
Exhibition dates may and do change without prior
notice from museums to TFAO. Always verify dates directly with museums before
visiting their exhibitions.
How TFAO updates calendars
Future calendars are updated in two ways:
Systematically:
- On a bimonthly basis, TFAO volunteers review the Calendar Update Schedule
(see A-C D-G H-L M-Q R-S
T-Z) to locate museums for which
their furthest exhibition closing month has expired. TFAO then reviews
the current and future exhibition sections of websites of targeted museums
for new information. TFAO then updates the Schedule's listings for the
targeted museums with new information by listing on the schedule the earlier
of: 1. the furthest exhibition closing month in time or 2. a month which
TFAO deems important for follow up. As a part of this review TFAO also
updates the related exhibition calendar to include information on newly
discovered exhibitions.
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Occasionally:
- Future calendars and Calendar Update Schedules are checked and updated
on a continuous basis as information is received by email from museum sources.
How TFAO uses calendars
Towards the end of each month TFAO volunteers review the calendar for
all of the listed exhibition openings for that month. TFAO then reviews
published exhibition articles and essays in the sub-index page for each
related museum to determine if Resource Library has already published
an article or essay concerning each calendar listing. If Resource Library
has not yet published an article or essay, TFAO sends by email a request
for exhibition information to the museum. TFAO sends requests near the end
of the exhibition opening month to allow museums time to gather .jpg images
and texts from gallery guides, brochures or catalogues, exhibition wall
panels and labels, as well as press releases. TFAO requires six hundred
or more words of text to publish a Resource Library article or essay
for an exhibition.
Links to sources of information outside of our web site
are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use
due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and
all other web sites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or
out of date. Traditional Fine Arts Organization,
Inc. (TFAO)
neither recommends or endorses these referenced organizations. Although
TFAO includes links to other web sites, it takes no responsibility for the
content or information contained on those other sites, nor exerts any editorial
or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages
see TFAO's General Resources section
in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History. Individual
pages in this catalogue will be amended as TFAO adds content, corrects errors
and reorganizes sections for improved readability. Refreshing or reloading
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