Artist: William Allan (1782 - 1850)
Nationality: British
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Media: Paintings
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Biography:
Sir William Allan, a Scottish historical painter, was born in Edinburgh and worked there for most of his life. He traveled throughout Russia from 1805 to 1814 and began painting subject matters from his experiences abroad. These exotic paintings did not sell well, so Allan turned to Scottish subjects, notably illustrating scenes from the writings of Air Walter Scott.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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William Allan William Allan/ Recent Watercolors and Paintings/ the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ California Palace of the Legion of Honor/ 20 July through 8 September 1974 color offset lithograph poster 1974
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William Allan Trout lithograph 1973
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William Allan Tomales Color aquatint 1975
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy) "The Gateshead Giant" (Mr. William Allan, M.P.), Statesman No. 623, from Vanity Fair, October 26, 1893 Lithograph 1893
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James Peale - The Ambush of Captain Allan McLane 1803 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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David Allan, Scottish, 1744-1796 Frontispiece designed by Allan Ramsay, Scottish, 1713-1784 Poet Ramsay [Book] Allan
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David Allan Preaching in the Collosseum at Rome etching 18th century
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Allan Kaprow untitled, plate on p. 100 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Allan Kaprow untitled, plate on p. 101 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Charles Allan (C.A.) Gilbert Scribner's May (Life at Wellesley) by Miss Goadlau color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster; Family Dog Productions, "Edgar Allan Poe," Daily Flash; Country Joe amd the Fish; Avalon Ballroom, 10/21-22/66 lithograph 1966
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Allan D'Arcangelo - Landscape 1964 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Allan D'Arcangelo - Landscape c. 1967 acrylic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 By the Sea 1865 Oil on canvas 20.32 x 35.88
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 Farmhouse 1868 Oil on canvas 40.32 x 65.09 cm (15
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Allan Rohan Crite - Harriet and Leon 1941 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Allan Rohan Crite - Marble Players 1938 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 At the Shore 1860 Oil on canvas 50.8 x 104.14
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Allan Ramsay - King George III 1713-84 oil on canvas The Mint Museums English
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Allan Ramsay - Queen Charlotte 1713-84 oil on canvas The Mint Museums English
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 The Alps about 1847 Oil on panel 27.3 x 35.24
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 The Wagoner 1850 Oil on panel 17.14 x 19.68 cm
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 Farmhouse at Rye Beach, New Hampshire 1870 Oil on board
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 Rocks at Cohasset 1869 Oil on board 30.16 x 48.26
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Carle (Antoine-Charles -Horace) Vernet Allan Mack-Aulay,....fourteenth plate in the book... Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph 18th - 19th ce
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Allan Gwynne-Jones - Spring Evening, Froxfield 1922 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Allan Ramsay - Portrait of Mrs. Mary Martin 1761 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Allan D'Arcangelo - Number One Of Road Series 2 1965 acrylic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Winckworth Allan Gay, American, 1821-1910 Presidential Range in Early Autumn about 1855 Oil on paperboard
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Allan D'Arcangelo Landscape III, plate 2 from the portfolio Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. III Color screenprint 1965
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Allan D'Arcangelo Landscape I, pl. 4 from Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. I screen print on wove paper 1965
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe with patterned waistcoat),third plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu pa
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe in chair with cat ), second plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper
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Antonio Frasconi The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) book with 12 woodcuts including frontispiece and colophon on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (portrait of Poe), frontispiece in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe with Raven), fifth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled ( Poe), sixth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe with Ravens nd Crosses), ninth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu pap
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe's Head), first plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe in the Moonlight), eighth plate on double page in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (plant form), image on colophon page in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcutprinted in red on handmade
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (Poe at bottom sheet), seventh plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 195
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (full legnth portrait of Poe), fourth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu p
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Antonio Frasconi Untitled (bllurred forms),tenth plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]) woodcut on handmade Goyu paper 1959
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Emmy Lou Packard Untitled (Shipyard) watercolor 1944
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Hans Erni Nude, from Nous Sommes Deux ET 1959
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Bernard Buffet Face of a Man Drypoint circa 1958
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Anthony Harrison Requiem I etching 1963
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Anthony Harrison Requiem II etching 1963
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Anthony Harrison Requiem III etching 1963
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Peter Paone Bosch Etching 20th century
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John Coleman Some Figures and a Table color etching 1964
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Multiple Artists Seven Objects in a Box seven objects by seven artists in various media 1966
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John Talfourd Smyth Arabs Dividing the Spoils etching and engraving 19th century
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Horatio Nelson Poole Live Oak Tree graphite 1934
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Leonard Baskin Ares 1962
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Canoe mask Wood, pigment 19th–early 20th century
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Leonard Baskin Hephaistes 1962
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William Faithorne The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662) Book with 9 etchings with engraving 1662
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William Henry Watt William Lourdsworth 19th century
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William Page - Mrs. William Page 1860-61 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Arthur William Devis - The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c. 1786 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Leonard Baskin In The Meadow Etching 1964
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Leonard Baskin Beham Etching 1962
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William Nicholson London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) book with color plates 1898
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Leonard Baskin Blake Etching 1963
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Nathan Oliveira To Edgar Allan Poe portfolio 1971
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Horatio Nelson Poole Street in Chinatown pen and ink and wash circa mid 20th century
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Horatio Nelson Poole Grove of Trees in Hilly Landscape graphite 1934
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Artist: Fang or Tsogo Title: Pair of reliquary figures Date: 19th century Medium: painted wood
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Michael Mazur Figures Fixed or Figure Falling Etching and soft ground etching 1965
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William Page - Colonel William Leete Stone 1839 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Nicholson An Almanac of Twelve Sports (London: William Heinemann, 1898) book with color plates 1898
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Leonard Baskin Portrait Of Eakins Woodcut 1962
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William Bagdatopoulos - Dr. William Henry Holmes 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Nicholson Hammersmith, fifth plate in the book London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) color plate 1898
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William Nicholson The Tower, third plate in the book London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) color plate 1898
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William Nicholson Any Bar, twelfth plate in the book London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) color plate 1898
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William Nicholson Kensington, second plate in the book London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) color plate 1898
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Leonard Baskin Man and Bird Color woodcut circa 1958
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Edgar Allan Poe
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George Grosz 5 A.M. Lithograph 1921
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William Merritt Chase - Portrait of President William Waugh Smith 1907 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Horatio Nelson Poole Barren Trees, Two Foals, and a Barn graphite circa 1925 - 1940
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Horatio Nelson Poole Hilly California Landscape with Oaks graphite circa 1925 - 1935
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Horatio Nelson Poole Rocky California Coast penm and ink snd wash circa mid 20th century
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Adriaen Pynacker William of Orange (William III) Commemorative Plate polychrome tin - glazed earthenware 1690
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio Lithograph 1971
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio Lithograph 1971
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio Lithograph 1971
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio Lithograph 1971
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio Lithograph 1971
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio Lithograph 1971
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William Hancock Wilke William Andrew Clark, Jr. Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Nathan Oliveira Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio Lithograph 1971
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Leonard Baskin Untitled (woman And Crow) Wood Engraving 1964
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Nathan Oliveira [Plate] IV from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe lithograph on Velon Arches paper 1970
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Nathan Oliveira [Plate] II from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe lithograph on Velon Arches paper 1970
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Nathan Oliveira [Plate] I from the suite, To Edgar Allan Poe lithograph on Velon Arches paper 1970

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Frye Art Museum: Allan Rohan Crite: Artist-Reporter of the African American Community
Beyond depicting the particular events and spaces of the African American community, Allan Crite's imagery acknowledges spiritual values and traditions. A devout Episcopalian, the artist also turned his attention and talents toward sac...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Allan Eddy: Lost Sight Is Not Lost Vision
Allan Eddy, an award wining Atlanta College of Art graduate, winning the Forward Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1987, and hailed as the next Kandinsky, Matta or Miró, paints in abstract form. His art hangs in many collections, including Elton Jo...
Contemporary Arts Center: Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the Work of Allan Wexler
A catalog with essays by Aaron Betsky of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Christopher Scoates and Wexler is ...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Tissot and the Victorian Woman
Tissot began etching in 1860 with the art form's popular revival, but then stopped after 1861 and did not etch again until 1875.  Between 1875 and 1885, Tissot produced his most significant etchings.  In 1885, Tissot began work on the Bible illust...
Arlington Museum of Art: Two Landscape Exhibitions

Place: Day/Night features the works of two established Fort Worth painters not previously shown at the museum: Blagg and Woodson. For this exhibition of large paintings, curator Bounds has selected a new body of work by Blagg featuring night...
Talwar Gallery: Allan deSouza: people in white houses
Beckoning us with their enigmatic yet beautiful distant vistas, deSouza’s landscapes reveal their constituents of dressed up societal refuse. The choice of materials and titles impart irony and expose the immediacy of the works while connecting wi...
Royal Over-Seas League: Travel Scholarships 2000 for Artists
Eligibility citizens of the United Kingdom up to and including the age of 35 as at 31 December 2000. Media oil or comparable media, watercolour, drawing, mixed media, mono print or semi-relief. Free-standing work, multiple edition prints ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: do it
Those charged with the execution of the artworks must exercise their interpretative skills, for, like a musical composition, each version of a work in do it is meant to be a uniqu...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: From Mini-FM to Hacktivists: A Guide to Art and Activism
Vicente says: “From mini-FM to hacktivists examines contemporary artistic and activist practices in the context of alternative media and provides the historical grounding for today’s internet collaborations. It illustrates a new paradigm of counte...
City Gallery: Sex in Deep Space: The Art of Dianna Cohen, Jason Eoff, Barrie Goshko, David Allan Peters, Michael Salerno
Dianna Cohens medium, the plastic shopping bag, may seem to be the farthest thing from a sensual magic carpet. In her hands, they become playfully asymmetrical and joyously multicolored constructions, offering tactile temptation as they lay fla...
National Gallery: Family Fortunes: Painting the Family
We are invited to consider what we mean by families, and what was meant at different times in history: in many of these paintings the father is absent and, in some, the painting was intended to serve as a photograph might today - a reminder, ...
Geoffrey Gorman + Associates: Ten Tips for Success - Join Geoffrey Gorman for this FREE one hour teleclass!
Tips include: 1) The two major mistakes that artists make when setting goals. 2) How to become your own marketing and publicity expert. 3) The artist's secret to successful networking. Teleclass Presenter: Geoffrey Go...
Contemporary Art Center: Above and Below: The Hypar Room An Interactive Exhibit for Children
Coinciding with a survey of Wexler's work, The Hypar Room allows children and families to investigate a space that seems puzzling,...
CARFAX: MANUSCRIPT EXHIBITION
Over forty works have been submitted, including those by: Willem Boshoff (multimedia, sculpture, art lecturer),
Wanas Foundation: TEN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT WANÅS 2000
During the years 1987 – 1999 many different projects have been realized inside the barn as well as outside in the park. The focus is on sculpture and site specific installations. THE PARK houses several permanent works...
Cambridge Galleries: Translinear: 12 Canadian Artists
The concise premise of the exhibition is that painting has a particular visual language and that paintings exist to generate a state of awareness or understanding on the part of the viewer which is not limited by context, time or place. By bringin...
Wexner Center for the Arts: Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire
The magnitude of Taymor's creative vision will be captured through large-scale installations featuring scenic elements, puppets, masks, and costumes designed by the artist and her collaborators. V...
Geoffrey Gorman + Associates: National Marketing Expert Geoffrey Gorman Meeting With Artists and Arts Organizations in Europe
Please email Mr. Gorman’s office at ggaarts@aol.com or visit his web site to get more information about meeting with him while he is in Europe. Seven years ago, Gorman started GG+A, a consulting and career development firm that has worked w...
California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
Sotheby’s Institute of Art: MA in Photography: Historic and Contemporary
As the only course in the United Kingdom to offer a postgraduate qualification in the history of photography, the course will also allow students a full investigation of the medium beyond the art gallery. The course will look at the medium’s...
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: POP CARS. America – Europe
The Lehmbruck Museum project will be the result of in-depth research, and will present groups of work on the topic from the Gottfried Schultz VW collection, the BMW Car Collection (Warhol), the DaimlerChrysler Collection (Cars by Warhol), the ADAC (G...
Stalke Gallery: New Paintings By Hans Peterson and Jonas Hvid Sondergaard
Peterson explores identification by combining figurative and abstract elements. Dispersed on the canvases one recognises a house or a human figure, while other areas remain undefined, coloured shapes. The recognisable objects are often borrowed fr...
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: After the Storm: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2001,
In only its second presentation, the biennial Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art awards $20,000 to each of five artists chosen by a panel of respected selectors and to a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum. The program inclu...
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art: Call for Artists: Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2003
The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, inaugurated in 1999, includes a major exhibition of work by the selected artists and a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum, purchases of their art for the Eiteljorg’s permanent collect...
Dia Center for the Arts: Playback: A Retrospective of Work by Robert Whitman
Pioneering in its use of media as art material, Whitman's performance work is among the most influential of its period. His involvement with multi-media performance-based works began in 1960 when, together with fellow artists Allan Kaprow, Jim ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Three Museums Join to Present Groundbreaking Survey of Van Gogh's Portraits
Taking this famous passage as a point of departure, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Van...
Stedelijk Museum: Eye Infection: Work by Robert Crumb, Mike Kelley, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul and H.C. Westermann
Unlike Gerrit Komrij, Harry Mulisch and Queen Beatrix, who were invited to present their choice from the Stedelijk's collection, Braun has devised a free exhibition concept. He wanted to introduce in Holland a so far neglected movement in Ame...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: Bright Paradise: Tony De Lautour, Ian McDonald, Paul Morrison, Paul Seitsema
Curated by Allan Smith, Bright Paradise tracks narratives of exploration, discovery, travel, leisure, image collections and technologies within a matrix of loss and longing. The show includes around 30 artists, with 10 of these coming fro...
Frick Collection: The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The exhibition is accompanied by a presentation organized by The Frick Collection and offered at this venue only. Generously on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland from December 5, 2000 through January 21, 2001, is one of its most popul...
National Gallery of Art: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
"The Gallery presented in 1994 a major exhibition of de Kooning's paintings. Now, we are extremely pleased to be showing his drawings," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "They reveal de Kooning grappling with issues that ...

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