Art Across America
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CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Picasso: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art
Through Jan. 4.
Paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, and prints explore the artist's development over six decades, from 1904 through 1971.
www.lacma.org
San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Diebenkorn
Through Jan. 19.
The most comprehensive survey to date of this late American artist's career.
www.sfmoma.org
San Diego
San diego museum of art
M.C.Escher: A Centennial Tribute
Through Jan. 3.
Examines the Dutch artist's contemporary masterpieces.
www.sddt.com/sdma.html
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
national gallery of art
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Through Jan 3.
Unusual opportunity to view paintings that rarely travel outside the Netherlands. Featuring 70 paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, this exhibit illustrates Van Gogh's entire career.
Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
Through Feb. 15.
First comprehensive US survey of Edo-period Japanese art examines themes of religion, landscape, and the Samurai in nearly 300 works.
www.nga.gov
The Phillips Collection
Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige
Through Jan. 3.
Impressionist winter landscapes characterized by "the effects of snow." Includes 65 paintings by such artists as Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Caillebotte, and Morisot. (See story, left.)
GEORGIA
Athens
Georgia Museum of Art
Rembrandt: Treasures from the Rembrandt House, Amsterdam
Through Jan. 10.
Seventy-five etchings and drawings by the 17th-century Dutch master, including self-portraits, and landscapes, portraits, and studies.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
Mary Cassatt
Through Jan. 3
Works by American artist known for her association with French Impressionists.
www.artic.edu/aic/
IOWA
Des Moines
Des Moines Art Center
Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe, Guston, Gerhard Richter
Through Jan. 24.
Major works by three 20th-century artists.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Abelardo Morell, Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner
Through Jan. 3.
New work by this photographer known for his black-and-white images that examine familiar objects and environments.
www.boston.com/gardner
NEW YORK
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edgar Degas, Photographer
Through Jan. 3.
Presents 35 to 40 photographs made by the French artist in the mid-1890s.
www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Modern Art
Jackson Pollock: A Retrospective
Through Feb. 2.
Reexamines the challenging and influential work of this American Abstract Expressionist; more than 120 paintings and 60 works on paper.
www.moma.org
OREGON
Portland
Portland Art Museum
Monet at Giverny: Masterpieces from the Muse Marmottan
Through Jan. 1.
'Blockbuster' exhibition features 22 paintings by Monet.
www.pam.org
TEXAS
Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology
Through Jan. 24
Approximately 250 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and decorative objects that trace the roots and development of self-taught art in this century.
www.mamfw.org
Houston
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston
A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Through Jan. 10.
Presents the history of a museum through 250 masterworks from the V&A's collections, spanning 2,000 years.
www.mfah.org
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Art Museum
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks
Through Jan. 10.
First retrospective exhibition to synthesize different aspects of Parks's art with his photojournalism.
www.mam.org
- From '1999 Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions:
11th Edition' (800-2-LOVE-ART)