The Thannhauser Collection is a permanent installation at the Guggenheim. The vast art collection of Justin Thannhauser, son of an art dealer, was acquired by the museum in the last century.
The collection features “Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern French masterpieces including works by Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Picasso, Renoir and more.”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street ), NYC
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s lively exhibition, Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, “…gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception… At the same historical moment, an emerging generation of artists of color and women explored color’s capacity to articulate new questions about perception, specifically its relation to race, gender, and the coding of space. The exhibition looks to the divergent ways color can be equally a formal problem and a political statement.”
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s
Until Aug 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: “The Fourth of the Three, 1963” Richard Anuszkiewicz)
“Barnes created some of the twentieth century’s most iconic images of African American life. Known for his unique “neo-mannerist” approach of presenting figures through elongated forms, he captured his observations of life growing up in North Carolina, playing professional football in the NFL (1960–1964), and living in Los Angeles.“
“For many fans of 1970s American television, Ernie Barnes’ (1938–2009) painting The Sugar Shack is no doubt instantly familiar. The 1976 work depicting a dance scene—which was the cover art for Marvin Gaye’s album I Want You—achieved cult status…”
California African American Museum: CAAM
Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California
(Image: The Sugar Shack (1976) Acrylic on canvas)
“The MFAH is the only venue for this major survey that brings together more than 50 masterworks by one of the most iconic artists in the history of Western art. Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art follows Van Gogh (1853–1890) through four key stages of his career, from early sketches to final paintings.”
Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art ~ Through June 27, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: Vincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach, 1888, oil on canvas)
If you missed it when it was at MoMA / NYC, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) is presenting this important Charles White (1918-1979) exhibit from Feb 17 thru June 9, 2019.
“The exhibition includes approximately 100 drawings and prints along with lesser-known oil paintings. A superb draftsman, White focused on images of both historical and contemporary African Americans, depicted in ideal portraits and everyday scenes. He extolled their dignity, humanity, and heroism in the face of the country’s long history of racial injustice and encouraged his viewers and fellow artists of color to project their own self-worth.”
“Charles White: A Retrospective” * 2/17/19 – 6/9/19
LACMA/
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
FYI: Charles White and the Contemporary (March 6–August 25, 2018) will be presented at the California African American Museum
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. “
“Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance.
This exhibition brings together for the first time the excitingly disparate practices of more than sixty Black artists from this important moment, offering an unparalleled opportunity to see their extraordinary works side by side.”
(Image: Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free, 1972 – Carolyn Mims Lawrence)