This special showcase celebrates two decades of representing both new and established artists at Gallery 1261. Experience the rich tapestry of creativity that has defined the gallery over the years, reflecting their commitment to fostering enduring relationships with artists and introducing fresh perspectives.
 
Among the artists will be works by ARC Living Masters Scott Burdick and Anthony Waichulis.
 
The exhibition runs from August 30 – September 17, 2024 at Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St Ste 1, Denver, CO 80204.  The opening reception takes place on August 30th from 5-8 pm.

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From the moment of its creation, the Peacock Room has been a personal, artistic, and cultural battleground. Created by artist James McNeill Whistler for the London home of British businessman Frederick Leyland, the room has a dramatic and complex origin story that works in the Freer Gallery of Art collection help reveal. 

"Ruffled Feathers" offers a unique opportunity to see intimate and formal portraits Whistler created of the Leyland family. Additional paintings and examples of design from Leyland’s home help audiences understand how Whistler incorporated motifs sourced from Asia throughout his designs and rethought his own approach to art and art-making. 

The exhibition runs from July 13, 2024 - January 31, 2027 at the Freer Gallery, Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20004.

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Spanning 400 years, this exhibition follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. Including over 150 works from Tudor times to the First World War, the show dismantles stereotypes surrounding women artists in history, who were often thought of as amateurs. Determined to succeed and refusing to be boxed in, they daringly painted what were usually thought to be subjects for male artists: history pieces, battle scenes and the nude.

The exhibition sheds light on how these artists championed equal access to art training and academy membership, breaking boundaries and overcoming many obstacles to establish what it meant to be a woman in the art world.

The exhibition takes place from May 16 – October 13, 2024 at Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, UK.

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Over 350 years since they were painted, five paintings by renowned Bolognese painter Guercino are on display together for the first time at Waddesdon in a new exhibition.

This historic exhibition spotlights one of the great painters of 17th-century Italy, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591-1666). Brought together for the first time since leaving the artist’s studio in 1651, are Waddesdon’s King David alongside two associated paintings of sibyls from the National Gallery and another sibyl from the Royal Collection, painted the same year.

The exhibition takes place from March 20 – October 20, 2024 at Waddeson Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JH.

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The results for the 24th Annual ARC Scholarship Competition will be posted on September 3, 2024.

A total of $30,000 will be awarded to talented students attending ARC Approved schools. Student painters and sculptors who are chosen to receive these awards will have submitted examples of their works which clearly reflect the principles espoused by the classical methods of drawing, painting and sculpture and reflect a level of visual literacy.

Please be sure to visit the ARC Scholarship page on September 3rd to see the results!

Image: Teresa by Saara Väli
23rd ARC Scholarship Competition - First Place

In 2024, Berlin will celebrate one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: along with Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals ranks among the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. In addition to unconventional, expressive portraits of the Haarlem elite, he was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders as individuals in portrait format. With his extraordinarily relaxed and free style, this painter from Haarlem helped to inspire the Modernist painting like no other artist of his time. In cooperation with the National Gallery, London, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Gemäldegalerie is organizing a comprehensive monographic exhibition featuring some 75 works.

The exhibition runs from July 12 to November 3, 2024 at the Gemaldegalerie, Matthaikirchplatz, Berlin, 10785, Germany.

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American painters such as Willard Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer, and Abbott Thayer created profoundly beautiful views of the New England landscapes where they lived and worked. These paintings largely depict that environment as timeless and static. Shifting Boundaries looks at these works from a new angle by engaging a multiplicity of voices and viewpoints to explore what these paintings can tell us about changes to this region both past and present. As Shifting Boundaries reveals, the views these artists created of pasturelands in Massachusetts and of seascapes in Maine were transforming even as these artists recorded them. This reshaping of these landscapes has only accelerated in the century since these artists depicted them.

The exhibition runs from July 13, 2024 – July 26, 2026 at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, D.C.

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Born in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethière (1760–1832) was a key figure in French painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The son of a white plantation owner and an enslaved woman of mixed race, Lethière moved to France with his father at age fourteen and began studying drawing and painting. While establishing himself as a history painter, Lethière successfully navigated the tumult of the French Revolution and achieved the highest levels of recognition in his time. He served as director of the Académie de France in Rome, a member of the Institut de France, and as a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. A well-respected teacher, he operated a successful studio that trained a number of artists, including young women and artists with connections to the Caribbean. Despite his remarkable accomplishments and considerable body of work, Lethière is not well known today and has never been the subject of a major exhibition.

The exhibition runs from June 15 – October 14, 2024 at the Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, MA 01267.

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Arcadia Contemporary proudly presents its 10th annual Five and Under exhibition, a celebration of artistic diversity and price accessibility. This highly anticipated event showcases over 150 new works by more than 60 internationally  acclaimed artists, including ARC Living Masters Shawn Downey, Adrian Gottlieb, and Julio Reyes.

The opening reception at Arcadia Contemporary takes place on August 15th from 6-8 pm. 

Five and Under : A Group Exhibition is running from August 15 - September 1, 2024, 421 W Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

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In the 1700 and 1800's, artists explored the idea of the Sublime, the flip side of the Age of Enlightenment, in which Romantics opened themselves to the sensation of forces beyond human comprehension and control. They gave their audiences terrifying images, sometimes for fun, sometimes for soulful contemplation. In this exhibition, artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, and William Blake stir the cauldron with images so peculiar that it was, and still is, hard to know what to make of them.

The exhibition runs from June 15 – December 8, 2024 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404.

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In the 17th century, frigid winters and unusually cool summers blanketed northern Europe in what became known as the Little Ice Age. Dutch artists depicted this persistent global cooling in scenes of daily activities like ice skating and fishing. Highlighting human vulnerability and resilience in the face of a changing climate, these works offer opportunities to reflect on our current environmental crises. This exhibition features works by Hendrick Avercamp and other Dutch artists of the 1600s.

The exhibition runs from May 28 – September 1, 2024 at the Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles CA 90049.

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Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art features more than 50 rarely seen artworks related to book illustration from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s holdings and local collections. Included are preparatory sketches, finished drawings and watercolors, printing blocks, limited edition prints, and published books created between 1750 and 1950. These objects show how artists from Jean-Baptiste Oudry to Aubrey Beardsley approached the challenges and opportunities of illustration, navigating the commercial needs of the publishing industry while developing their artistic voices.

The exhibition runs from May 4 – September 8, 2024 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland OH, 44106.

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From the Bader Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes a remarkable selection of seventeenth century Dutch paintings. Shown in dialogue with paintings from the AGO’s European Collection of Art, at the center of this focused installation are seven artworks attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), shown together for the first time. Featuring intensely observed still life paintings, detailed interiors and mesmerizing portraits, these striking artworks offer a rare glimpse of Dutch artistry at work.

The exhibition runs from March 18, 2024 – February 8, 2025 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4.

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In the early to mid-1800s, the expansive landscapes of New York State’s Hudson River Valley and adjacent areas, such as the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains, inspired a remarkably talented group of American artists, who came to be known as the Hudson River School. These artists extolled the majesty of the American wilderness and the idea of living in harmonious balance with nature.
 
Hudson River School artists also journeyed beyond New York State to other regions noted for scenic beauty, such as New Hampshire, coastal New England, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia as well as to Europe and South America. Many of the places revered by the Hudson River School artists are now national parks, state wilderness preserves, and historic sites. This exhibition celebrates the Hudson River School artists and their depiction of the poetic beauty of nature and the American landscape.
 
The exhibition runs from June 14 – September 22, 2024 at the Munson, 310 Genesee Street, Utica, NY 13502.

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Few people today recognize the name Joseph Christian Leyendecker and yet he was arguably this nation’s most popular commercial artist during the first four decades of the 20th century. His paintings helped sell everything from men’s clothing to breakfast cereal and he helped define the modern magazine cover.

Haggin Museum houses the largest public collection of original artworks by the “Golden Age” illustrator. The museum’s core Leyendecker Gallery displays over 40 pieces of original work and personal ephemera. In honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Haggin is displaying a collection of rarely seen original works and sketches by the artist. The selection includes J.C. and his brother Frank’s sketches, allowing viewers to get a closer look at the artists’ process.

The exhibition runs from February 22 - September 15, 2024 at the Haggin Museum, 1201 N Pershing Ave, Stockton CA 95201.

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Few people today recognize the name Joseph Christian Leyendecker and yet he was arguably this nation’s most popular commercial artist during the first four decades of the 20th century. His paintings helped sell everything from men’s clothing to breakfast cereal and he helped define the modern magazine cover.

Haggin Museum houses the largest public collection of original artworks by the “Golden Age” illustrator. The museum’s core Leyendecker Gallery displays over 40 pieces of original work and personal ephemera. In honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Haggin is displaying a collection of rarely seen original works and sketches by the artist. The selection includes J.C. and his brother Frank’s sketches, allowing viewers to get a closer look at the artists’ process.

The exhibition runs from February 22 - September 15, 2024 at the Haggin Museum, 1201 N Pershing Ave, Stokckton CA 95201.

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In Spain, during the period between the liberal governments from 1885 to 1910, artists ceased to depict historical subjects in order to focus on contemporary life. Their works became testimonies of the changes that modernized the country.

The diverse selection of almost 300 artworks, many never previously exhibited, illustrate the various ways artists represented the massive societal transformations taking place at that time. 

The exhibition runs from May 21 – September 22, 2024 at the Museo National del Prado, Paseo del Prado, 28014 Madrid, Spain.

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