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Best known as a member of the Ashcan School, painter and illustrator John Sloan (1871-1951) often focused his paintings and prints on city life and its people during the early 20th century. However, between 1900 and 1910, Sloan produced a weekly series of word and picture puzzles for the Sunday supplement of the Philadelphia Press, one of the country’s leading illustrated newspapers.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is a sensational exhibition – grand, exhilarating and so unexpected as to make the painter’s career look altogether different. It brings together nearly half of the semi-figurative Black Paintings from the early 1950s. This would be unique enough – they haven’t been shown together since Pollock’s death, drunk at the wheel of his Oldsmobile in 1956 – but here they appear among a tremendous selection of paintings from every period, to reveal a startling continuity between the figurative and the abstract in Pollock’s career.

Quite a poker chip, the Norton Museum of Art has.

Among its permanent collection is an iconic painting from Paul Gauguin, “Christ in the Garden of Olives (1889),” that museums all over the world want to show.

And so they trade.

Though July 12, visitors to the West Palm Beach museum will be able to see a master work from Claude Monet, “Nymphéas,” which the Norton received from Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland in exchange for their Gauguin.

James McNeill Whistler’s 1871 painting best known as “Whistler’s Mother” depicts an unsmiling matriarch locked forever at age 67, eyes failing, ailing in a damp city, bad teeth hidden behind a set jaw.

Over the years, this mother has been a symbol of either the caregiver who nurtures her children or the grump who raps their knuckles. An exhibit opening Saturday at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., explores Anna McNeill Whistler’s migration from patriotic emblem of American motherhood to comically stern pop-culture icon.

Rare furniture, paintings and exotica from the collection of leading American arts and crafts figure Lockwood de Forest II will be auctioned by Bonhams in Sydney this month, having been consigned from the designer’s grandson who lives in Australia.

The renowned New York designer, painter and interior decorator was a prominent member of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement and famously worked alongside Louis C. Tiffany, creator of the iconic Tiffany stained-glass lamp, in the 1880s.

The subject of unfinished works of art and why they are interesting enough to be displayed in a public gallery is the topic of a newly curated exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery. 'Unfinished' takes center stage at the annual Summer Showcase which highlights some of the Courtauld’s outstanding permanent collection This special display focuses on the theme of the ‘unfinished’ artwork, bringing together unfinished paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

In the Mediterranean and particularly the Côte d’Azur, Raoul Dufy found inspiration above and beyond that of the sea. The exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret showcases a series of paintings inspired by Nice as experienced through the artist's stays and walks here (mainly in 1926, 1927 and 1928, and then between 1933 and 1940) and explore their relationship with Dufy's decorative artwork from the 1920s.

The "Monet and American Impressionism" exhibit opened at the Hunter Museum on Friday and will run through Sept. 20. 

"Monet and American Impressionism" will feature several Monet paintings and highlight American artists who launched a new way of painting in response to the influence of French  Impressionism. 

When the first American Impressionists began returning from Europe in the mid-1880s, they soon found themselves embracing a familiar yet unexpectedly rich and rewarding subject.

Newly trained by their French mentors to paint out of doors — where they could revel in the mysteries of shifting light and color — they set out looking for American settings just as the nation's late-19th-century garden movement was taking off.

The first major museum survey dedicated to scenes of night in American art from 1860 to 1960—from the introduction of electricity to the dawn of the Space Age—opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) this June. "Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art" explores the critical importance of nocturnal imagery in the development of modern art by bringing together 90 works in a range of media—including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures—created by such leading American artists as Ansel Adams, Charles Burchfield, Winslow Homer, Lee Krasner, Georgia O’Keeffe, Albert Ryder, John Sloan, Edward Steichen, and Andrew Wyeth, among others.