Artist: Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805)
Nationality: British
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
English sculptor, Thomas Banks, was one of the most admired and serious of the British Neoclassical artists. Despite his talent, his work was not well received in the market and thus, Banks was less successful than his colleagues. He also trained under Peter Scheemaker as a mason and carver. Banks won a Royal Academy scholarship to study in Rome in 1772 and remained there for seven years. Returning to England with no further gain in reputation, Banks traveled to Russia but returned a year later because of the climate. Shifting his focus to church monuments and portrait busts rather than classical statues, Banks finally received more of the success he deserved.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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William Thomas Fry Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool 18th - 19th century
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Alfred Sisley - The Banks of the Oise 1877-1878 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Georges Seurat - Banks of the Seine near Courbevoie 1883 oil on wooden panel The Hyde Collection French
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Charles Francois Daubigny - Banks of the Oise River 1875 Oil on canvas High Museum of Art French
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Cornelis Decker - A Cottage on the Banks of a Stream 1669 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Camille Pissarro - The Banks of the Oise, near Pontoise 1876 oil on canvas Ackland Art Museum French
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Claude Monet - Banks of the Seine, Vetheuil 1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Armand Guillaumin - The Banks of the Marne at Charenton c. 1895 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Thomas Rowlandson A View On the Banks of the Thames Etching with watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Portrait of John Scott of Banks Fee 1774 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Camille Pissaro - Banks of the River Oise, Pontoise 1877 oil on canvas Williams College Museum of Art French
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Eugene Antoine Samuel Laviellie - On the banks of the Seine at Levy, 1884 1884 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Theodore Caruelle d'Alligny - The Bathers, Souvenir of the Banks of the Anio River at Tivoli c. 1860-61 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Paul Camille Guigou - The Banks of the River Durance at Saint Paul 1864 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Charles Edward Wagstaff Sir J. Banks 19th century
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The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau (le Douanier) (French, 1844-1910)Oil on canvas;
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Sir Alfred East On the Banks of the Seine Etching 1913
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Arthur Evershed On the Banks o f the Thames ET 19th - 20th century
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George Biddle Along the banks of the Kalamazoo Lithograph 1947
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Douglas I. Smart Banks of the Seine Etching, drypoint 19th - 20th century
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John William Joseph Winkler Estuary Banks Etching 1919
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Arthur Pond Wooded River Banks with Herd of Deer 18th century
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Alphonse Legros The Banks of the Somme near Amiens Etching 19th - 20th century
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George Biddle Gathering flowers on the banks of the Hudson Lithograph 1926
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EugËne Isabey Bord de Canal (Banks of the Canal) Lithograph 19th century
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Mid Summer"s Eve Dance, Gustavus II Adolphus Hall, Minneapolis Date:
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George Biddle Bringing home the cows on the banks of the Hudson Lithograph 1926
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Edward Loyal Field Farmhouses on banks of Stream ET 19th - 20th century
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Christian Wilhelm Dietricy or Dietrich Landscape with river flowing between rocky banks Etching 1744
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Franz Edmund Weirotter [Landscape, thatched roof cottage on the banks of the bay] Etching 18th century
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Charles Meryon Presqu'Ile de Banks, pointe des charbonniers, Akaroa (Colliers' Point near Banks peninsula, Akaroa) Etching circa 1863
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The Banks of the Oise, 1863 Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)Oil on wood; 14 3/4 x
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Picnic, Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver
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Adolphe Marie TimotÈe BeaufrËre Bords De La Laita (avec Le Pecheur) (banks Of The Laita With A Fisherman) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Bicentennial Fete, Browerville, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Hotel Lobby, Wadena, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Bicentennial Fete, Browerville, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Walter Milbrath, Bertha, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Bicentennial Fete, Browerville, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Artist: Thomas Frederick Arndt Title: Minnesota State Fair, St.Paul, Minnesota Date: 1976 Medium: gelatin silver
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The Banks of the Seine at Conflans, 1865-70 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)Oil on canvas; 18
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On the Banks of the Oise, 1864 Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)Oil on wood; 8 3/4
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Robert Batty Banks of the Elbe at Baden, Saxony, plate 37 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Frank Short On the Banks of Arun Etching 19th - 20th century
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José Weiss, French, 1859–after 1919 Banks of a River Oil on panel 16.8 x 27.3
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Merrimac River Banks of the Merrimac 1875 Charcoal on paper
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John Orne Johnson Frost, American, 1852-1928 Fishermen Leaving for the Grand Banks between 1922 and
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Henri Joseph Harpignies Banks of the Allier (Borde dell Allier) oil on canvas 1903
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A Lady Walking in a Garden with a Child
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Emile Charles Lambinet, French, 1815-1877 Fishing on the Banks of the Seine 1872 Oil on
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Alfred Sisley Banks of the Loing oil on canvas 1891
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Thomas Gainsborough - The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Banks of the Somme at Picguigny oil on canvas circa 1865 - 1870
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Alston 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully The Reverend Thomas Stockton oil on canvas 1843
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Handasyd Perkins 1832 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Thomas Lupton Thomas Chalmers, D.D, L.L.D, & F.R.S.E. 18th - 19th century
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Artist: William Henry Jackson Title: The Grand Canyon for the Falls Date: 1873 Medium: albumen
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Sèvres, The Seine at Meudon
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Caleb Newbold and Her Son Thomas 1813 oil on canvas The Columbus Museum
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Artist: Jerome Liebling Title: Hubert H. Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, Minneapolis Date: 1958 Medium: gelatin
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Thomas King Thomas Parr, aged 152 years 18th century
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Possibly by René Boyvin, French, 1525-1580 or 98 Possibly designed by Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1493-1560
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Hans Holbein the Younger - Sir Thomas More 1527 oil on panel The Frick Collection German
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Thomas Hill Reverend Thomas Starr King oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Thomas Cheesman - Thomas Moor Ld. Chancelour (after Hans Holbien) 1812 colored print University of California, Berkeley Art Museum English
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Artist: Jerome Liebling Title: Woman, Red Lake, Minnesota Date: 1953 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions:
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Artist: Jerome Liebling Title: Minnesota State Fair Date: 1964 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.14-5/8
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Artist: Robert Adams Title: Missouri River, Clay County, South Dakota Date: 1977 Medium: gelatin silver
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Eagle Creek, Columbia River
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Barges at Pontoise, 1876 Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)Oil on canvas; 18 1/8 x 21 5/8
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Hiroshige Evening Rain on the Banks of the Tadasu River (Tadasugawara yudachi), from the series Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi) color woodcut circa 1833 - 1834
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Judy Kensley McKie Canoe prow ornament, Gope Wood, red pigment with traces of lime and charcoal 19th century
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Thomas Cornell Pig Etching 1960
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George de Forest Brush, American, 1855-1941 The Thomas Sisters (Margaret Thomas Gardiner and Helen Thomas
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Amory II c. 1770-1772 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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John Wesley Jarvis - Thomas Paine c. 1806-1807 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Thomas Jefferson 1832-1892 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Sully 1859 oil on canvas board National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Greene 1758 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson c. 1805-07 oil on canvas Bowdoin College Museum of Art American
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John Smibert - Mrs. Thomas Bullfinch c. 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Neagle - Thomas W. Dyott c. 1836 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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John Smibert - Mrs. Thomas Bullfinch c. 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Lady Peel - Sir Thomas Lawrence 1827 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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Ralph Earl - Thomas Earle 1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Hesselius - Thomas Chamberlaine 1772-75 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Arthur Pond - Thomas Gray probably 1731 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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After Pietro Perugino, Italian, about 1450-1523 Three Apostles late 15th–early 16th century Metalpoint with brush
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William Dunlap - Mrs. Thomas A. Cooper n.d. oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Incredulity of Thomas
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Lydia Field Emmet - Portrait of Thomas Ewing III c. 1932 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas c. 1502-1504 oil on synthetic pan The National Gallery, London Italian
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John Thomas Smith Topography of London (London: John Thomas Smith, 1810). BOUND WTH: Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Tradersä (London: John Thomas Smith, 1815) book with etchings (two with hand coloring) 1810 - 1815
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Saints Andrew and Thomas before 1627 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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View of Ornans, probably mid-1850s Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 36
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Auguste Rodin - Thomas Fortune Ryan 1909-1910 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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George Romney - Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson c. 1770-1773 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (29)
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The Natural History Museum, London: Voyages of Discovery
Revealing natural history treasures never seen by the public before, the Museum literally opens up its vast collection of botanical, entomological, geological and zoological specimens, historical artworks, photographs, prints and drawings, all ...
Canadian Museum of Civilization: National Aboriginal Day
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Toledo Museum of Art: Eternal Egypt : Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum
This extraordinary exhibition features renowned masterpieces and little-known riches from the world-famous Egyptian antiquities collection of the British Museum. More than half of these priceless objects- crafted from approximately 3000 B.C. to A...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: MAN - Body in Art from 1950 to 2000
The exhibition occupies the entire museum presenting 80 international artists’ depictions of the body from 1950 to the present day. Works by a number of Danish artists such as Asger Jorn and Michael Kvium, as well as internati...
Orleans House Gallery: A River Runs Through It: Riverside Views of the Thames
A number of these stunning riverside views will go on display including one of the earliest, Peter Tillemans’ famous panoramic view of The Thames at Twickenham (c.1724-30). Today, the river still stirs the imaginations of contemporary artist...
King County Public Art Program: Call for Arrtists: Environmental Labortory
Artist’s Opportunity: King County and project architects The Miller/Hull Partnership are interested in adding an artist to the Environmental Laboratory project who can tell the story of the region’s water quality and contribute to the educational...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
A former librarian, Lombardi culled information from published sources, but made a point of stating that his study did not stem from primary research. Part of the 14,500 index cards upon which he recorded and noted this information will also be on...
Sarajevo Biennial: Chaos and Communication: Tenth Biennial of the Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean Opens Tomorrow
Biennial disciplines - art subjects
The basic division of disciplines in the Biennals was set fifteen years ago. Today, however, significant changes have taken place deriving from the changes in the artistic expression itself. Interdiscipli...
The British Museum: Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
The exhibition shows the variety of the world's writing systems and relate the story of the Stone's discovery, how it entered the British Museum in 1802, and how it inspired decipherment by the young ...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition Selected by Young Curators at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Young Curators are a group of eight teenagers who have come together using the Museums Collection as their primary resource. Drawn from schools in Waterford, Meath and Dublin, the Young Curators developed out of Open ...
Art League Houston: Watermelon Flats 1987+15: The BBAP Board Show
What is now the Buffalo Bayou ArtPark is the direct descendant of that show. Since 1987 BBAP has exhibited over 100 artists on the banks of Buffalo Bayou and in other various locations in Houston.  Art League Houston is honored to celebrate the an...
ALBANY MUSEUM: Greg Schultz, 'New Landscapes' and Lisa Van Wyk, 'Printed Surfaces'
Greg Schultz also has recent work on exhibitions in Johannesburg and in Port Elizabeth's King George VI Gallery. His work was recently selected again for the National ABSA Atelier Competition and also features in the 2000 'Blood Banks of South Af...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Transformed: Selections from the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company Collection
The exhibition will include large-scale portraits, urban and natural landscapes, and staged works by 54 artists, most working in color media. They in...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
National Portrait Gallery: Return to Life: A New Look at the Portrait Bust
Including work by well-known sculptors such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sir Jacob Epstein and Sir Francis Chantrey, as well as work by less familiar practitioners including Samuel Joseph and Kathleen Scott, the exhibition displa...
Pushkin Museum at Arbat: Earth: Death-Birth Work by Angel Orensanz
The exhibition consists of a host of strongly poetic sculpture pieces that fly over the three spaces, while hige projections give context to those sculptures and arresting drawings in which Orensanz capture the drama of the Earth as grave and cra...
Cambridge Galleries: Architecture in Cambridge: Shaping the City
The unique situation ofCambridges core has offered many of the School of Architectures students an opportunity to reflect ...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Photography of H.H. Tilbrook: South Australia at the turn of the century
This remarkable exhibition brings these images to public display for the first time – along with extracts from Tilbrook’s meticulous diaries in which he recorded his journeys, the planning of the photographs and some of the challenges of early out...
Site Gallery: Tar Beach: New Artists from New York
Introducing the exhibition, Melissa Gould’s (MeGo) four-colour lithographic map NEU-YORK is an exercise in manipulated cartography in which the street names on a map of Manhattan circa 1939 are replaced with an equivalent from the Berlin of the sa...
Dublin Arts Council: Call to Artists: Seventh Annual Art in Public Places Competition
Dublin is a historic city located along the Scioto River, 20 minutes north of Columbus, Ohios State Capitol. The City of Dublins rich agricultural history dates back to the early seventeenth century. Modern Dublin is a progressive community that ...
Museo del Prado: Vermeer and the Dutch Interior
The aim of Vermeer and the Dutch Interior is to contribute to a better understanding of the art of Vermeer, by analysing his paintings of domestic life in relation to works of the same genre by his contemporaries. Previous major exhibitions devot...
Morgan Arts Council: Morgan Arts Council brings art to cyberspace
The festival (which runs through September 26th) kicked off with a multimedia gallery exhibit by artist Hasan Elahi at 7:30pm at the Ice House Art and Community Center. The gallery show continues from 11am to 5pm on Saturdays and noon to 4pm...
Guggenheim: Foerg: Deutsche Bank Collection
ANNIVERSARYSince the middle of last year, the show with Günther Förgs works from the Deutsche Bank Collection has been on exhibition at European bank branches, selected art associations and museums. Every fortnight, the art journ...
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago: Modern Views of Egypt: Contemporary Photos of Egypt
These photographs are selected from the permanent collection of Chicagos LaSalle Bank. The exhibition will inaugurate the Holleb Family Temporary Exhibits Gallery, part of the ongoing renovation of the Oriental Institute galleries. Gene Gr...
Van Gogh Museum: Paul Signac: Marter of Pointilism
Often wrongly considered to be a mere follower of the better known Georges Seurat, the exhibition follows the course of his varied career from his earliest works in an Impressionist style, through the Neo-Impressionist phase ...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Big Deal and Blow Up: Dwarf the Human Body with Humorous Intelligence
“I put together an exhibition by artists who enjoy taking up big chunks of space in the service of a socially committed stance that is filtered through an intelligent wit,” states Renny Pritikin. Featured in gallery three, Scott Snibbe is a Bay A...
Massive Change: Call for Artists: The Future of Global Design

They are seeking images and video that document how design is being applied to all aspects of life, including: transportation, housing and urbanization, health, energy, manufacturing, imaging and information technologies, materials, markets, and t...
Canadian Center for Architecture: Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into – and often out of – the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History moves beyond the focus on artisanry, detail, and material. ...
NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. at Baldwin Gallery, Milstein Building, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center: Fine Art vs. Insularity, NURTUREart Reaches The Heights: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art
More Than Meets the Eye In its quest to broaden the cultural horizons of residents of Washington Heights, NURTUREart has allied with community organizations to reach residents unexposed to, or cynical about contemporary art. This will be acc...

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