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Philadelphia's art museums featureRenoir, Wyeths, Kutztown's own KeithHaring in spring 2018Updated: FEBRUARY 6, 2018 — 3:01 AM EST

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR / PUBLIC DOMAINDetail from Renoir’s “Landscape with Woman and Dog,.”

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Albert Barnes bought a lot of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It’s the largestcollection in the world. Less famously, Barnes bought ceramic works by Renoir’s sonJean, but his ceramics were largely forgotten once Jean became one of the world’sgreatest film directors.

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In May, the Barnes Foundation will bring together paintings by Renoir père, and film,costumes, photographs, posters, and other memorabilia from the career of Renoir fils,along with some of his ceramics. It is one of several exhibitions at Philadelphia-areamuseums that focus on the family and friends of famous artists.

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Two others are already underway. The Michener Museum has a show of the work ofHenriette Wyeth, daughter of N.C. Wyeth and sister of Andrew Wyeth, and her husbandPeter Hurd. Andrew Wyeth learned his characteristic egg tempera technique from hisbrother-in-law. And the Brandywine Museum of Art is showing a retrospective by George“Frolic” Weymouth, a neighbor, friend, and sometime student of Wyeth’s who was afounder and longtime chairman of the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum.

Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Museum of Art continues its exploration and repackaging of

its permanent collection with a show of early 20th-century American modernists.

Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd, A Retrospective (Through May 6,Michener Art Museum). Henriette Wyeth is known for her portraits and large-scalepsychologically fraught landscapes, and Hurd for landscapes of New Mexico where hegrew up and the couple lived. It includes more than 100 works by Wyeth, Hurd, and otherfamily members. (215-340-9800, michenerartmuseum.org(https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/))

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MICHENER ART MUSEUMHenriette Wyeth’s “Portrait of My Father,” 1939. Oil on canvas. 47½ x 53 in. Permanent Collection of the RoswellMuseum and Art Center, Roswell, N.M., gift of Mrs. N.C. Wyeth, from the exhibition “Magical and Real,” Michener ArtMuseum

The Way Back: The Paintings of George A. Weymouth (Through June 3, BrandywineRiver Museum of Art). Joseph Rishel, a distinguished longtime curator at thePhiladelphia Museum of Art, selected the works to be shown by his friend Weymouth,who was perhaps best known for his flamboyant personality. The exhibition makes thecase for his paintings, which were heavily influenced by Andrew Wyeth, but which have acharacter of their own. (610-388-2700, brandywine.org/museum(http://www.brandywine.org/museum))

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Keith Haring: Symbolic Gestures (Through April 15, Reading Public Museum). Haringbecame famous for his work on the streets and subways of New York, but he grew up inKutztown, and the Reading Museum first exhibited him in 1976, long before he was a star.This retrospective will include some very early work, along with others that feature theradiant babies and other motifs for which the artist is known. (610-371-5850,readingpublicmuseum.org (http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/))

Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show (Through March 25, Institute of Contemporary Art).Leibowitz, alias “Candyass,” became known in the 1990s for his eclectic brightly coloredworks and installations that explored both Jewish and queer identity. A related exhibitionat ICA is Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward (through Aug. 12), agroup show cocurated by the prominent local collectors Katherine and Keith Sachs andartist Nayland Black that, according to ICA, “explores how the expanding influence ofdigital and online technologies, fandom subcultures, and artistic discourse has creatednew possibilities for queer identification.” (215-573-9975, icaphila.org(http://icaphila.org/))

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ICA, PHILADELPHIACary Leibowitz: Museum Show organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Installation image.Showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Charles Santore: Fifty Years of Art and Storytelling (Feb. 17-May 13, Woodmere ArtMuseum). This is the first career retrospective of the Philadelphia-born illustrator. Itbegins with his 1960s commercial work and continues to his recent illustrations ofchildren’s classics. The cast of characters ranges from Columbo to his 2017 version ofAlice in Wonderland. (215-247-0476, woodmereartmuseum.org(https://woodmereartmuseum.org/))

Keith Smith at Home (Feb. 17-July 8, Philadelphia Museum of Art). Though he first wonrecognition as a photographer, Smith is best known for making books that mix media, andincorporate high culture and low. This exhibition is the first monographic museum showto look at a career that spans half a century. (215-763-8100, philamuseum.org(http://philamuseum.org/))

First Academies: Benjamin West and the Founding of the Royal Academy of Artsand the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (March 2-June 3, PennsylvaniaAcademy of the Fine Arts). West (1738-1820), who was born in what is now Swarthmore

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and grew up in Newtown Square, left for London to study art and became successful soquickly he never came home. He was a founder and second president of London’s RoyalAcademy, and he also supported, from a distance, the creation of an academy inPhiladelphia. The exhibition, which features about 80 works, examines the role of theacademies, and celebrates some of the other American artists who were influential inPAFA’s founding and growth. (215-972-7600, pafa.org (https://www.pafa.org/))

COURTESY PAFA“Europa Crowning the Bull with Flowers,” by Benjamin West (1738-1820), oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Academy ofthe Fine Arts.

Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin (March 10-May 27, Delaware ArtMuseum). John Ruskin was one of the most influential critics of the Victorian era inEngland, but he also devoted himself to closely observed drawings of nature. A selection

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of drawings on loan from the Ruskin Library in England will be paired with drawings byWyeth, another careful limner of dry sticks and bare branches. (302-571-9590, delart.org(http://www.delart.org/))

Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950 (April 18-Sept. 3, Philadelphia Museum ofArt). Early 20th-century art — long prized as much for its documentary value as for itsaesthetic quality — is in a period of reappraisal. The Art Museum has a large anddistinguished collection, especially of the artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz such asGeorgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove. The show will emphasize paintingand sculpture, but there will be prints, drawings, photographs, and costume as well. (215-763-8100, philamuseum.org (http://philamuseum.org/))

Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling (April 27-Aug. 26, Fabric Workshopand Museum). This highly regarded German sculptor is known for very finely craftedworks executed at a very large scale. Her best known works are made of cedar, though anew work she is creating for this retrospective will be made of leather. It will includemany works never before exhibited in the United States. (215-561-8888fabricworkshopandmuseum.org (http://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/)). In addition,beginning on the same date, Now, She: Two Sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard, apair of large outdoor works, will go on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s sculpturegarden, for about a year.

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RENE BURRI/MAGNUMJean Renoir on the set of “Elena and Her Men” (“Elena et les hommes”), or “Paris Does Strange Things,” with MelFerrer and Ingrid Bergman.

Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema — (May 6-Sept. 3, Barnes Foundation).“I have spent my life trying to determine the extent of the influence of my father uponme,” Jean Renoir once wrote. This exhibition will explore connections between the art ofthe impressionist painter and his filmmaker son, in part by showing clips from JeanRenoir’s films adjacent to Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings. (215-278-7200,barnesfoundation.org (https://barnesfoundation.org/))

Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking (May 19-Sept. 23, PrincetonUniversity Art Museum). This exhibition focuses on four major series of prints done bythe artist, best known for his geometric paintings, between 1984 and 1999 and based onliterary works. The premise of the show is that these works mark a transformation ofStella’s style, and also changed contemporary printmaking. This show will include 41 ofthe large-scale prints, and their literary inspirations. (609-258-3788,artmuseum.princeton.edu (http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/))

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American Moderns: The Legacy of Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest (June 2-Oct. 21,Michener Art Museum). This small show is a sort of regional companion to the ArtMuseum’s “Modern Times” show. Its premise is that while Philadelphia-area artists of

the early 20th century are most often identified with American impressionism, some werecommitted, experimental modernists. (215-340-9800, michenerartmuseum.org(https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/))

Natural Wonders: the Sublime in Contemporary Art (June 23-Oct. 21, BrandywineRiver Museum of Art). This extremely promising group show of a dozen majorcontemporary American artists focuses on artists’ view of nature in the increasingly

unnatural world of the early 21st century. (610-388-2700, brandywine.org/museum(http://www.brandywine.org/museum))

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