SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
There’s more than glorious foliage in Canada this fall: Don’t miss RIGHT UNDER THE SUN: LANDSCAPE IN PROVENCE FROM CLASSICISM TO MODERNISM (1750-1920), which comes to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in September following its successful run in Marseille. This sundrenched exhibit explores the influence of the region’s shimmering light and varied terrain on such artists as Renoir, Cézanne, Monet and Van Gogh. Whether painting coastal villages or rugged mountains, they interpreted these famous landscapes through the prism of the artistic currents of their day.
    This December, DÉCO LALIQUE will open at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, which boasts the largest collection of Lalique glass in North America. Lalique started out as a jeweler, designing for such houses as Cartier and Boucheron and fashioning stage pieces for Sarah Bernhardt. He went on to focus on glass, creating exquisite chandeliers, panels for luxury liners and decorative objects. Through luminous pieces such as a golden vase etched with raised parrots, the exhibit explains the secrets of Lalique’s technique and the manufacturing methods he devised to bring high style to a mass market.

West Hollywood
PATRICK TOURNEBOEUF
Empty of visitors and often devoid of art, the vast spaces of museum buildings undergoing renovation are the focus of Patrick Tournebœuf: The Museum Project, the first U.S. exhibit of the photographer’s work. Instead of depicting the formal beauty of some of France’s best-known art venues, Tournebœuf’s images capture an exciting disarray in such spaces as the Grand Palais, where bronzes are scattered among welders, and the Château de Versailles, where ladders and scaffolding stand alongside priceless murals.
Sept. 10 through Oct. 19 at MB Fine Art Los Angeles. mbfala.com

Chicago
PARIS PHOTOS
Photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and André Kertész walked the streets of Paris much like the flâneurs of the late 19th century, observing daily city life and taking memorable and innovative snapshots well before they became famous. Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was presents a collection of images that offer an early glimpse of the photojournalistic talents of these artists and show how they used the city as their canvas.
Through Nov. 6 at The Art Institute of Chicago. artic.edu

Philadelphia
EUGÈNE ATGET
Well-known photographer Eugène Atget spent his early years working in various professions, experimenting with sailing and acting before he began taking pictures at the age of 41. While photographing urban street life, Atget also did commercial work, creating visual records for artists, designers, librarians and antiquarians. Looking at Atget examines how Atget approached his subjects and focuses on the impact of his work on collector Julien Levy and fellow photographer Berenice Abbott. Together, they were the first to introduce Atget’s photographs to an American audience, though they held different views of the artist’s work. Abbott promoted Atget as a “styleless” photographer recording the world around him, while Levy looked at many of Atget’s images through a Surrealist lens.
Sept. 10 through Nov. 27 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. philamuseum.org

Los Angeles
THE HOURS OF LOUIS XII
Created by court painter Jean Bourdichon, The Hours of Louis XII is a large devotional book that was put together in honor of the king’s coronation in 1498. This text eventually fell to pieces and had virtually disappeared by the end of the 17th century. A Masterpiece Reconstructed: Jean Bourdichon’s Hours of Louis XII reunites the text and 15 miniatures from the book for the first time in more than 300 years.
Oct. 18 through Jan. 8, 2006, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. getty.edu

Montreal
LANDSCAPE IN PROVENCE
Presenting more than 200 works by some 60 artists, Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920) showcases the evolution of artistic technique in the Mediterranean region and looks at the ways the region’s light and vivid colors inspired approaches that deviated from Impressionist style. Featuring such famous artists as Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet, the show also spotlights the works of Albert Marquet, Hubert Robert and Emile Loubon.
Sept. 22 through Jan. 8, 2006, at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec. mmfa.qc.ca

New York
MARQUESAN ART
The first exhibit to showcase exclusively Marquesan art, Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands features some 80 works that exemplify secular and religious life in this South Pacific paradise. Long before the Marquesas became famous as Paul Gauguin’s final home, the islands celebrated artistic expression and adornment in many forms: Art served to enhance deity and ancestor worship, decorate the skin and beautify everyday objects. Bone ear ornaments, headdresses of turtle shell and mother-of-pearl, and hardwood war clubs are just some of the items on view. The exhibit also presents several early European portraits of the islands’ native people; among them is a sketch made during Cook’s voyage that is the earliest known image of a Marquesan.
Through Jan. 15, 2006, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. metmuseum.org

New York & Princeton
HOMER’S LEGACY
Few poets are as renowned throughout the world as Homer, so it comes as no surprise that his creative talents influenced generations of artists. This fall, the Dahesh Museum of Art and the Princeton University Art Museum simultaneously present The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The exhibit brings together works that reveal Homer’s impact on 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century visual artists such as Flandrin, Ingres, Carpeaux and Regnault.
Oct. 11 through Jan. 22, 2006, at the Dahesh Museum of Art, and Oct. 8 through Jan. 15, 2006, at the Princeton University Art Museum, NJ. daheshmuseum.org




New York
ODILON REDON
With charcoal “noirs,” vibrant canvases and striking lithographs, Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon examines the wide range of the artist’s talent and his influence on 20th-century art. Displaying works from the Ian Woodner Family Collection’s gift to the MoMA (more than 100 Redon paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints and books), the exhibit explores the beginnings of modernism through an in-depth look at his Symbolist world.
Oct. 30 through Jan. 23, 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art. moma.org

New York
CLOUET TO SEURAT
Four centuries of French master drawings come together in Clouet to Seurat: French Drawings from The British Museum, which features works by such artists as Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, Jean Clouet and Edgar Degas. The show explores the innovations of the French drawing style, examining images of 16th-century court society and 19th-century café society, and features pieces that have rarely been exhibited because of their sensitivity to light.
Nov. 8 through Jan. 29, 2006, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. metmuseum.org

Philadelphia
BEAUFORD DELANEY
From his vivid depictions of street scenes, parks and jazz clubs of Harlem and Greenwich Village to the abstract compositions he first embraced in Paris, Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris brings together 50 paintings, prints and watercolors that span Delaney’s career, including several never-before-exhibited pieces from Delaney’s earliest years in Paris. A highlight of the exhibition is Delaney’s portrait of James Baldwin, which will be shown alongside a series of other depictions of the writer, allowing the viewer to appreciate the evolution of the artist’s portrait style.
Nov. 13 through Jan. 29, 2006, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. philamuseum.org

Toronto
ART DECO GLASS
While René Lalique’s early works reflect the human body and other key elements of his academic training, the artist soon developed a unique Art Deco style that he quickly brought to the world market. Déco Lalique explores this transformation from traditional sculptor into 20th-century modernist and pays particular attention to Lalique’s success in adapting his designs to new mass production techniques. In particular, the show closely examines how Lalique melded art with industry by building upon the press-molded and mold-blown technologies developed by French glassmakers in the early 19th century.
Dec. 15 through Jan. 2007 at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. rom.on.ca

West Palm Beach
IMPRESSIONISM
French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts traces the development of Impressionism in both France and the United States and looks in particular at the way that Impressionist works found their way to the homes of Boston collectors during the second half of the 19th century. The show brings together some 50 works by such artists as Claude Monet, Camille Corot and Childe Hassam.
Nov. 19 through March 5, 2006, at the Norton Museum of Art. norton.org

Cambridge
FRENCH DRAWINGS
Approximately 35 drawings by François Le Moyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, among others, reveal the tastes of collector Charles E. Dunlap, a Harvard alumnus who contributed prized 18th- and 19th-century works to the university’s art museums. French Drawings and Paintings from Harvard’s Dunlap Collection spotlights Dunlap’s most significant donations and examines the relationships he maintained with his professors, who greatly influenced Dunlap’s growth as a collector and donor.
Dec. 17 through March 12, 2006, at the Fogg Art Museum. artmuseums.harvard.edu

Fort Worth
GAUGUIN & IMPRESSIONISM
Perhaps best known for his Polynesian works, Paul Gauguin developed into a professional artist years earlier under the tutelage of Camille Pissarro. Featuring some 50 paintings and 20 sculptures and ceramics, Gauguin and Impressionism focuses on Gauguin’s Impressionist beginnings and follows his career to 1887, when he set sail for Panama and Martinique. The show also presents a unique group of works from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen that includes one of Gauguin’s most ambitious early paintings, “Nude Study (Woman Sewing)” from 1880.
Dec. 18 through March 26, 2006, at the Kimbell Art Museum. kimbellart.org