Autumn Winter 2013 Preview

Autumn /Winter 22 www.antiquesandfineart.com HIGHLIGHT S Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898 Through January 12, 2014 Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, NY, NY For information call 718.638.5000 or visit www.brooklynmuseum.org The first major American exhibition to explore the private lives and domestic interiors of Spain’s New World elite, focusing on the house as a principal repository of fine and decorative arts. The exhibition tours through 2015 to Albuquerque, New Orleans, and Florida. John Singer Sargent Watercolors Through January 20, 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA For information call 617.267.9300 or visit www.mfa.org Co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, this exhibition will, for the first time, combine the two most significant collections of watercolor paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). More than ninety watercolors produced during his heyday (1905-1911) illustrate the artist’s international travels. American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World Through January 20, 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX For information call 713.639.7550 or visit www.mfah.org American Adversaries is the first major exhibition to chart the rise and spectacular success of contemporary history painting in the 18th century through the lives and experiences of two colonial American innovators: Benjamin West (1738–1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)— initially friends and eventually bitter rivals. John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund (1963.6.1). Image courtesy National Gallery of Art. Santa Maria della Salute, John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), 1904. Translucent and opaque watercolor and graphite with graphite underdrawing on moderately thick, rough wove paper. Purchased by Special Subscription. Courtesy, Brooklyn Museum. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Attributed to Pedro José Díaz (Peruvian, active 1770–1810). Doña Mariana Belsunse y Salasar, 18th century. Oil on canvas, 78⅛ x 50 inches. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. L. H. Shearman (1992.212).