Artist: Maurice-quentin De La Tour (1704 - 1788)
Nationality: French
Movement: Rococo
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Maurice-Quentin De La Tour was the son of a musician who disapproved of his painting career. He left home at fifteen to study in Paris with a Flemish painter and then became a portraitist in England. After returning to Paris in the mid-1720’s, De La Tour began working in the pastel medium. He exhibited at the Salon from 1738 to 1763 and became a member of the Academie Royale in 1746. De La Tour was appointed portraitist to the king in 1750, which established his reputation among the royalty and upper middle class. Towards the end of his life, he founded and art school and became a philanthropist before begin confined to his home because of mental illness.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour Self-Portrait pastel on laid paper circa 1760
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Maurice-Quentin de la Tour - Self-Portrait 1764 pastel on paper Norton Simon Museum French
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French, 1704-1788 Portrait of a Woman in a Rose-Colored Gown
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Clock on Bracket
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Peter Halm Quentin Metsys Bildnisstudie Etching 19th - 20th century
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Barometer on Bracket
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John C. Wenrich - Rue du Tour Toulouse 1919 opaque watercolor an Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Rene Magritte - World Tour 1945 oil on board Cleveland Museum of Art Belgian
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Portrait of a Man Quentin Massys (also Matsys or Metsys) (Netherlandish, 1465-66–1530)Oil on wood; Overall,
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Self-portrait with Two Pupils, Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818) and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond (died
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Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1520 Quentin Massys (also Matsys or Metsys) (Netherlandish, 1465-66–1530)Oil on
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The Fortune Teller, probably 1630s Georges de La Tour (French, 1593-1652)Oil on canvas; 40 1/8
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Mrs. William Man Godschall (Sarah Godschall, born 1730), 1791 John Russell (British, 1745-1806)Pastel on paper,
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1540 Follower of Quentin Massys (Netherlandish, mid-16th
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William Man Godschall (1720-1802), 1791 John Russell (British, 1745-1806)Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas;
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Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Peacocks Etching 1905
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Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Falcon Etching 1904
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Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Dawn Etching 19th - 20th century
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Quentin Massys - Mary Magdalen 15th-16th centu oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Quentin Massys - Ill-Matched Lovers c. 1520-1525 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Netherlandish
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Quentin Massys - Virgin in Adoration after 1507 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Charles Meryon La Tour de l'Horloge (The clock tower, Paris) Etching circa 1852
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Quentin Massys - Madonna and Child 1520-30 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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The Adoration of the Magi, 1526 Quentin Massys (also Matsys or Metsys) (Netherlandish, 1465-66–1530)Oil on
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Charles Meryon La Tour de l'Horloge (The clock tower, Paris) Etching circa 1852
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Charles Meryon La Tour de l'Horloge (The clock tower, Paris) Etching on chine collÈ 1958
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The Penitent Magdalen Georges de La Tour (French, 1593-1652)Oil on canvas; 52 1/2 x 40
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Hubert Clerget Tour de l'Horloge 19th century
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Anonymous Le Journal Amusant: Un Tour en Moravie 1874
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Maurice Achener Sion etching 1914
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Maurice Achener Fribourg etching 1914
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Maurice Sterne Vera Segal charcoal on paper 1930
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Anonymous Le Tour de Nesle - vue du Pont-Neuf 19th century
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Anonymous Le Tour de Nesle - vue du Pont-Neuf 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson Dr. Syntax Setting Out on His Second Tour, plate opposite page51 in the book The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of Consolation [by William Combe] (London:R. Ackermann, 1820), vol. 2 (of 3) color aquatint with hand coloring 1820
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, plate 28 opposite page 256 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 4th ed. ([London:R. Ackermann, 1813]), vol. 1 (of3) color aquatint with hand coloring
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Reading His Tour, plate 23 opposite page 181 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 4th ed. ([London:R. Ackermann, 1813]), vol. 1 (of3) color aquatint with hand coloring 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, plate 28 opposite page 256 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 3rd ed. ([London: R. Ackermann , 1813]) color aquatint with hand coloring 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Reading His Tour, plate 23 opposite page 181 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 3rd ed. ([London: R. Ackermann , 1813]) color aquatint with hand coloring 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Reading His Tour, plate 23 opposite page 181 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 4th ed. ([London: R. Ackermann , 1813]) color aquatint with hand coloring 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, plate 28 opposite page 256 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 4th ed. ([London: R. Ackermann , 1813]) color aquatint with hand coloring 1813
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Maurice Achener Basilica Palladiana Vicenza etching 1911
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Maurice Realier-Dumas Corinne Color lithograph 1897
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Maurice Sterne Coney Island Etching 19th - 20th century
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Michael Natalis Portrait of the Duc de la Tour Engraving 1665
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Maurice Delcourt La Famille du raveur Color woodcut 1898
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Anonymous Maurice, Prince d*Orange 19th century
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Georges de La Tour Old Man oil on canvas circa 1618 - 1619
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Marked by Adrien Dachery, master in 1730 Teapot France, (St. Quentin), 1755-58 Silver and ebonized
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John Marin Old Mill, St. Maurice Etching 1906
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Arthur Luiz Toledo Piza La Tour Color Etching 20th century
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Maurice Denis M. Baron 19th - 20th century
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Henry Alexandre Saffrey La Tour Saint Laurent a Rouen Etching 1878
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Maxime Lalanne Tour De Montalban, Amsterdam 1884
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Henry Wolf La RiviËre · la Tour Fontaine 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Denis Tendresse Lithograph in four colors 1893
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Maurice Del Mue Motive for Mural, Lagunitas School, Marin County oil on canvas 1934
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Maurice R. Bebb The Black Swans Aquatint In Col 20th century
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Portrait of Maurice Prendergast"s Father about 1888
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Michael Natalis Portrait of the Prince de la Tour D'Auvergne Engraving 1665
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LÈopold Flameng Maurice (?) de Latour ET 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Denis Les Pelerins d'Emmaus Lithograph in five colors 1895
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Maurice Denis Alexis Piron 19th - 20th century
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Henry Alexandre Saffrey La tour de St. Laurent a Rouen 19th - 20th century
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Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel Portrait of Paul Mounet oil on canvas circa 1875
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Maurice-Louis-Henri Neumont Parisienne Lithograph circa 1890
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Gustave Marie Greux Le Moulin de St. Maurice 19th - 20th century
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Adolphe Marie TimotÈe BeaufrËre St. Maurice Etching 19th - 20th century
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Gustave Marie Greux [Le Moulin de St. Maurice] 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Félix Bonfils Title: Tour 40 martyrs, Ramelb Date: n.d. Medium: albumen print Dimensions: H.11-1/8
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Georges de La Tour Old Woman oil on canvas circa 1618 - 1619
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Tour Guide with Tourists
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Henri Verge-Sarrat la Tour du Prisonnier a gisors etching 19th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck Rue a Heronville Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Raphael Drouart La Negresse Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck Harbor Town Wodcut 20th century
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Richard Parkes Bonington Tour du Gros-Horloge, Evreux Lithograph 1824
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Gabriel LoppÈ Vue de la Tour Eiffel et de la Grande Roue albumen print circa 1889
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William Blake Mrs. Q. (Mrs. Harriet Quentin) Stipple, printed in colors 1820
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Maurice Dumont Sappho Green impression on paper; glyptograph 19th century
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Maurice Denis Anthony Francis Joly 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Dumont Sappho Impression on metal foil 19th century
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Charles Gillot The British tour The Pyramids Gillotype 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Denis Maternite au cypres Lithograph printed in green 1898
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Maurice Denis D'apres une nature morte de Cezanne Lithograph 1914
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Octave Guillaume de Rochebrune La Tour Magne Etching 19th - 20th century
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Edme Jean Pigal Scenes populaires: A mon tour! Color lithograph 18th - 19th century
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Maurice Utrillo Moulin de la Galette lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck Village Street Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Raphael Drouart Les Trois Graces Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Francis Dodd, R.A. Maurice George Carr Glyn Drypoint and etching 1917
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Maurice de Vlaminck The Port of Martigues Woodcut circa 1914
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Artist: Maurice Prendergast Title: Holidays Date: 20th century Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.34 x
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Helen Breger Museum Tour of Europe intaglio-etching 20th century
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Maurice Denis Wallpaper Design in two colors: green and rose Lithograph 1893
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Maurice Brianchon Beach Scene watercolor over graphite 19th - 20th century
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Multiple Artists The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper (London: Grant Richards, 1904) book with reproductions 1904
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Adolphe Marie TimotÈe BeaufrËre Ferme Bretonne A St. Maurice Etching 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Utrillo La maison Rose a Montmartre lithograph 19th - 20th century
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James Duffield Harding La Tour sans Venin lithograph 18th - 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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De Vleeshal: Middelburg Residents Curate Exhibitions from the De Vleeshal Collection
Dick Anbeek (Veenendaal, 1949) will put together the first presentation. During the opening on sunday october 29, he will guide a tour explaining his choices. His presentation can be seen through to sunday nov...
Home + Style Studio Tour: Call for Artists: Sixth Annual Event to Benefit Canadian HIV/AIDS Research
Those who wish to participate that do not have their own space can be placed as a guest professional at an existing Tour-Destination. Join your community in a city-wide celebration of art and design for a worthy cause and promote your business...
FUNOMENA: Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange
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Art For God Museum: MUSEUM OPENS
There is no fee to visit the Art for God Museum, open 6 days a week except when on tour and Sundays by appointment only. (It is also advised to call for times.) The Art for God Gift Shop is in the Museum and products can also be ordered on ...
Detroit Institute of Art: Last Chance! Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians
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Geelong Gallery: Shearing the Rams Touring Regional Galleries
The painting will be shown as part of the National Gallery of Victorias Centenary of Federation celebrations. Dr Vaughan said the exhibit was a fantastic opportunity for people in regional Victoria to view the much-loved artwork without ha...
Dylan Thomas Centre: Especially When the October Wind: Works by Twelve Printmakers
The set will tour as an exhibition which will be launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Tuesday 6th May at 6pm. It will be opened by Malcolm Parr who wrote the catalogue introduction. Dylan's daughter Aeronwy Thomas will be present at this even...
Cafe Thou Art: Jeff Packard's World Tour Miniature Golf Celebrity Tournament
Volunteers will participate in the Candle Lighting Ceremony on Thursday, December 30th at exactly 8:00pm around the perimeter of manhattan. Tee off for the miniature golf tournament on that same day will be at exactly 2pm. cafethouart.com will pos...
National Arts Club: BALTIC ART EXHIBITION STAGES WORLD PREMIERE IN THE UNITED STATES
From New York the exhibition will travel to Washington, DC.In a choice of venues that may be fitting, given the role of the International Monetary Fund in post-Soviet economics, the exhibition will be hosted in the IMF`s Gallery March 9 throug...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth
The exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Service. All artifacts in the exhibition are on loan from the archives ...
Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: Indigenous Appointments

Ms Sharon Firebrace has been appointed to the Playing Australia/Festivals Australia Committee and Mr Phillip Gordon has been appointed to the Visions of Australia Committee. Both appointments are for three years from July 1999. ...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: Video Art
The first video presentation, entitled Speaking Bodies is a compilation of ...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House: Gossip Pop - The Reality TV Tour: Sue Dodd
The performance combines deadpan ‘rap-on-mogadon’ vocal delivery and robotic movements with beats generated by GameBoy and palm pilot. Sue Dodd will perform exciting new material gleaned from the pages of trashy gossip magazines (Starfucker, ...
Cairns Regional Gallery : Torres Strait Exhibition starts national tour
The exhibition includes rare 19th century artefacts from Australian and overseas collections alongside the work of contemporary artists from the Torres Strait Islands. This major exhibition highlights the unique culture and artwork of Australia...
Christie's: Old Master Pictures
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Saint Louis Art Museum: Art in Bloom: A Weekend of Flowers
This year's arrangements are being created by area garden clubs. Free docent-led tours will be available to give visitors a better understand of the artworks and their relationship to each flower arrangement. The honorary...
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery: Family Fortunes: Paintings on Tour from the National Gallery, London
'Family Fortunes' focuses attention on shifting attitudes towards the family from the 16th century to the present day. For example, the sentimental appreciation of children and childish pleasures which emerged in the 18th century is reflected ...
South Australian Museum: Body Art
Intimate photographs, audio visual displays and artefacts from private and public collections will explore the body art of individuals and communities all over the...
Frick Collection: The Medieval Housebook: A Fifteenth-Century View of Life
Organized exclusively for The Frick Collection by Timothy B. Husband, Curator of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The MedievalHousebook: A View of Fifteenth-Century Life presents...
Mills Reef Winery: Bryce Brown: Vitality
Born in Auckland in 1971, Bryce grew up in the lush Northland Surrounds, of Whangarei. He began to take art seriously in the mid 90s With the outstanding beauty of the Northland area providing him with a major source of inspiration. ...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Exhibition + Award
The exhibition presents the work of fifteen finalists selected from over 250 entries by a panel of artists and arts professionals, and will subsequently tour capital city and regional galleries from 2001-2003. The work explores a range of document...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: New American Talent: The Sixteenth Exhibition
Other states represented include Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. Texas and California lead the selection with nine artists respectively. Due to the generous support of Philip Morris Companies Inc., TFAA was...
Dahl Arts Center: Deena des Rioux: Robotic Portraiture
As a retrospective, her exhibition at The Dahl features "Cable Network", the first computer print to be represented at the Polish International Graphic Triennale in 1991. Over the Internet in tandem to this year’s Polish event, the artist was des...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Last Week! Cindy Sherman: Retrospective
A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Pr...
Parlor Gallery: People-Places-Spaces: Works by D. Lammie-Hanson, Kathleen Hayek and GG Stankiewicz
The Parlor Gallery began taking shape when Kathleen Hayek participated in a neighborhood Artist's Open Studio tour in the fall of 1998. Since her studio is a small room on the third floor of the 4 floor brownstone and can't accommodate more than 3...
Bristol Museums and Art Gallery: Family Fortunes: Paintings on tour from the National Gallery, London
Also on display is work on the theme of the family today by Bristol school children and young people. ...
Grant Hill: Call for Artists: Something All Our Own Scholarship
The Something All Our Own scholarship has been created to provide educational assistance to students interested in pursuing a degree in visual arts. The scholarship is open to high school (and/or GED) graduates, and the students must be enrolled ...
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Otherworlds: Images of Fantasy and Fiction
Minister for the Arts Matt Foley said this was the first Queensland Art Gallery exhibition curated and designed specifically for the youth audience to tour Queensland. 'Fantasy, surrealism and science fiction are genres which ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
The exhibition will feature eighty-one masterpieces from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection of the Musée national de l'Orangerie in Paris: fourteen paintings by Cézanne, six Derain...

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