Art Across America
ARIZONA
Phoenix
Phoenix Art Museum
Africa! A Sense of Wonder
Through Feb. 8.
Sub-Saharan African art dating from the 16th to early 20th century.
Web site: Info at azcentral.com
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Developing a Collection: The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the Art of Photography
Through Feb. 23.
Includes works by modern American and European photographers.
www.lacma.org
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Collection of Drawings of the J. Paul Getty Museum: the First 15 Years
Through Feb. 22.
Celebrates growth of the Getty's drawing collection.
www.si.edu
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
George Segal
Feb. 19 - May 17.
Monumental sculptures by the American artist.
www.si.edu
National Gallery of Art
Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
Through March 1.
Features Lotto, whose formal and iconographic experiments set him apart from mainstream Renaissance art.
www.nga.gov
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Ansel Adams: a Legacy
Through March 29.
Images from the end of Adams's career.
www.nmaa.si.edu
The Phillips Collection
Consuelo Kanaga: an American Photographer
Jan. 24 - April 5.
Retrospective of the career of this photojournalist.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art From the Imperial Collections
Through March 8.
First major overseas exhibition of rarely seen art from the Imperial Household Agency and Emperor of Japan.
www.si.edu
GEORGIA
Atlanta
High Museum of Art
Pablo Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art
Through Feb. 15.
Overview of the 20th-century master's career.
www.high.org
Illinois
Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
Irving Penn, a Career in Photography
Through Feb. 1.
More than 150 prints highlighting the artist's career.
www.artic.edu/aic/
KENTUCKY
Louisville
J.B. Speed Art Museum
Dale Chihuly: Selections From Louisville Collections
Through Feb. 15.
Features works of glass by the acclaimed contemporary American artist.
www.speedmuseum.org
Maine
Portland
Portland Museum of Art
Marsden Hartley, American Modern
Jan. 31 - April 23.
Surveys life and art of the American artist.
www.portlandmuseum.org
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
Images of Fashion
Jan. 28 - May 31.
Explores the evolution of the fashionable image in 16th- to 20th-century Europe and America.
www.mfa.org
MICHIGAN
Detroit
The Detroit Institute of Arts
A Celebration of Lithography: Nineteenth-Century Invention and Innovation
Jan. 25 - April 5.
Printmaking survey includes works by Goya, Delacroix, Manet, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
www.dia.org
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis
Walker Art Center
Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings
Jan. 25 - April 5.
Includes 19 works from the past 10 years by the Arizona-based artist.
www.walkerart.org
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hanover
Hood Museum of Art
Romare Bearden: Collages and Prints
Jan. 24 - April 12.
Features 15 works by renowned African-American artist Bearden.
NEW YORK
New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frankenthaler: The Early Years
Through May 3.
Surveys the innovative color-stain paintings created by American artist Helen Frankenthaler between 1952 and 1960.
www.guggenheim.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jackson Pollock: Early Sketchbooks and Drawings
Through Feb. 8.
Traces Pollock's works from 1937 to 1941.
www.metmuseum.org
Whitney Museum of American Art
Arthur Dove: A Retrospective
Through Apr. 19.
Surveys career of the 20th-century American Modernist.
www.echonyc.com/~whitney
OHIO
Columbus
Columbus Museum of Art
Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff
Through April.
Works created between 1959 and 1995 by an innovative American artist.
www.columbusart.mus.oh.us
OREGON
Portland
Portland Art Museum
Splendors of Ancient Egypt
March 8 - Aug. 16.
One of the largest exhibitions of ancient Egyptian treasures to visit the United States.
www.pam.org
TEXAS
Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Richard Diebenkorn
Feb. 8 - April 12.
The most comprehensive survey to date of the late contemporary American artist's career.
www.mamfw.org
Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
Feb. 12 - May 17.
Surveys the career of one of the most acclaimed American artists of the 20th century.
mfah.org
- From '1998 Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions: Tenth Anniversary Edition' 800-2-LOVE-ART
