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Although we love group and themed exhibitions, it's always nice to have the option of studying the work of one artist, alone, to see how he or she evolved in technique. Here you'll find picture galleries devoted entirely to one artist.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593)
The exhibition Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) illustrates that his best-known works remain as fun, fresh and innovative as anything that's been done since, and were grounded in solid draftsmanship and compositional skills. The show includes 40 paintings, about 30 objets d'art (including weapons and armor), graphic works and one tapestry, all on loan from private and public collections worldwide.
Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter
With nearly 100 oil paintings, works on paper and decorative objects drawn from a variety of public and private collections, Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter seeks to place noted Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumna, professor, and Philadelphia native Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) in a new position in American art history.
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet's first full retrospective in more than 30 years, the traveling exhibition explores this controversial artist's career in all media and includes a selection of 19th-century photographs that relate to his work, especially his landscapes and nudes.
Cranach the Elder
Cranach the Elder surveys six decades of the artist's work, illustrating his versatile ability to jump from mythology, to parody, to altarpieces, to some of the most iconic portraits to came out of the Reformation.
Mentor Huebner: One Artist Show
This Internet Exhibit consists of some 12 images of paintings Mentor created during one particular decade. The image of his Self Portrait (above), painted when he was 43, was included to show his 'look' during that same decade he had created these 12 paintings. Written by Louise Huebner, Mentor's widow.
Jasper Johns - Gray
The first exhibition to examine the groundbreaking American artist's use of this color from his earliest works to the present day. More than 120 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings take the viewer through a multitude of shades of gray employed across an ever-evolving body of work.
Frida Kahlo
This major exhibition contains more than 40 iconic Frida Kahlo paintings borrowed from over 30 private and museum collections around the globe, some of which have never before been publicly displayed.
Annie Leibovitz: American Music
Her latest traveling exhibition, "Annie Leibovitz: American Music" showcases 70 color and black-and-white portraits of American musicians in intimate settings. It includes Leibovitz's recent work in addition to several classic images from the late 1970s and 1980s. "American Music" is organized by Experience Music Project, Seattle and all works are courtesy of Annie Leibovitz.
Leonardo da Vinci - The Paintings
A chronological survey of Leonardo da Vinci's work as a painter, from his earliest 1470s efforts as an apprentice in Verrocchio's workshop, to his final painted piece, St. John the Baptist (1513-16).
Pinturicchio in Umbria
This special exhibition focuses on the work of Early Renaissance painter Bernardino di Betto (ca. 1452-1513) who went by the name Pinturicchio and trained in his native Perugia. Though often overshadowed today by his contemporaries Perugino and Raphael, Pinturicchio was immensely successful in his time for his numerous frescoes and occasional easel paintings.
Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape
This focus exhibition concentrates on one decade of Camille Pissarro's (French, 1830-1903) painting career, the years 1864 to 1874. The nearly-50 paintings in the exhibition are arranged chronologically, allowing us to travel with the artist from the Barbizon School to the first Impressionist exhibition -- quite literally from shadows to light.
Raphael at the Met: The Colonna Altarpiece
Raphael at the Met: The Colonna Altarpiece, exclusively at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, reunites the seven panels of the Italian High Renaissance artist's masterwork for the first time since their dispersal in the Seventeenth Century. All seven works by Raphael (Raffaelo Sanzio or Santi, 1483-1520) are available for viewing within this picture gallery.
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines
Robert Rauschenberg (American, b. 1925) is rightly famous for his freestanding and wall-hung "combine" (mixed-media) pieces created between 1954-64. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, About Art History caught up with the traveling exhibition "Combines" during its stay at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883
We all know and love Pierre-Auguste Renoir as a preeminent painter of people, but often overlook his landscapes. This is a mistake for, as Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 illustrates, the artist originally developed his superbly innovative color palette and loose brushwork in the freedom of the outdoors.
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780)
A representative sampling of the artist's large output of small-scale drawings and paintings that so delightfully chronicled work, life, love and entertainment as it existed in Paris during the French Enlightenment. On view at The Frick Collection, New York and the Musee du Louvre, Paris from October 30, 2007-May 26, 2008.
Helene Schjerfbeck
The artist's first major retrospective to travel outside of Scandinavia. The full exhibition features more than 120 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, spans 69 years of Helene Schjerfbeck's career and amply illustrates her transition from academic painter to founding pillar of Modernism.
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
On view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 28, 2007-January 7, 2008.
Tezuka:The Marvel of Manga
Showcasing more than 200 original artworks by Tezuka dating from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, these works of art serve to illustrate Tezuka's pioneering work in manga, creation of anime as a genre and ongoing global influence on popular culture. They also demonstrate the "god of manga's" rightful position in the annals of art history.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The first comprehensive presentation of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) in Sweden for forty years. The exhibition includes some 200 items including drawings, oil paintings and the posters of bohemian life in Montemarte with which Toulouse-Lautrec is so closely associated. On view at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm from February 21 to May 25, 2008.
Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration
The Frick Collection has assembled all five of Paolo Veronese's allegorical paintings held in the United States for an exhibition entitled Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice. Stan Parchin here takes us on a brief tour of the five Veronese paintings on display and offers a few words of wisdom about that which each is supposed to depict.

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