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  • From Survey to Canal: Photographs of the Isthmus of Panama

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../survey-canal-photographs-isthmus-panama
    November 20, 2010–May 1, 2011

    This exhibition explores the most immense engineering project of the 20th century through photographs that offer glimpses into the extraordinary scale and human expense of the Panama Canal, which transformed the trade route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.5282882
    Boost: 1
  • An oil painting of blue, red, green, black, cream, and yellow geometric shapes with an upside down red question mark in the center.

    Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935-1965

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../will-barnet-relationships-intimate-and-abstract-1935-1965
    June 18, 2011–January 8, 2012

    This celebratory exhibition marked Barnet’s 100th birthday by allowing viewers to witness the sophisticated progression of his art during the most pivotal period of his career, as he searched for the symbolic potential of forms through realism and abstraction.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.506626
    Boost: 1
  • An oil painting of a rocky coastline with crashing waves under a dark sky.

    Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../mythmakers-art-winslow-homer-and-frederic-remington
    December 22, 2020–February 28, 2021

    American icon Winslow Homer, famous ocean painter, joins Frederic Remington, legendary cowboy artist, for the first exhibition to explore the unexpected resonances and moments of convergence between the themes, artistic sensibilities, and technical processes of these two artists.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.4988325
    Boost: 1
  • Leon Polk Smith: Tamarind Lithography Workshop

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../leon-polk-smith-tamarind-lithography-workshop
    May 25–December 5, 2010

    This exhibition highlights the work of Leon Polk Smith, exploring how his cross-cultural experiences inspired his devotion to geometric patterning and pure colors, making him a leading practitioner of the style of abstraction popular in the mid-20th century.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.4884337
    Boost: 1
  • An oil painting of a group of White men on horseback shooting revolvers toward the viewer to defend a covered wagon that is ahead of them.

    Tales from the American West: The Rees-Jones Collection

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../tales-american-west-rees-jones-collection
    September 5, 2015–February 21, 2016

    Tales from the American West is the first museum exhibition to feature Trevor Rees-Jones’ exceptional collection of art of the American West. Including stately portraits, accurate renditions of daily life, and majestic landscapes, the Rees-Jones Collection contributes to our understanding of the West today.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.479388
    Boost: 1
  • An oil painting of a man pulling back a red curtain to reveal an outdoor scene of a small George Washington holding a hatchet near a damaged cherry tree and a taller man next to him gesturing angrily toward the damaged tree.

    George and Martha

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../george-and-martha
    January 28–June 1, 2015

    This exhibition explores presidential representation, delving into the enduring image of George and Martha Washington and the artistic decisions that America’s first great generation of artists made in order to remember these national icons.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.4537759
    Boost: 1
  • An abstract color photograph of what looks like crumpled paper in blue, pink, yellow, green, and red.

    Ellen Carey: Dings, Pulls, and Shadows

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../ellen-carey-dings-pulls-and-shadows
    January 17–July 22, 2018

    This exhibition features seven key works that explore the artist’s interest in color, light, and the photographic process through photographs that defy the traditional photographic convention of capturing identifiable subjects.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.4461017
    Boost: 1
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    Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce

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    August 15–November 1, 2020

    Experience the Texas landscape like you’ve never seen it before. Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce revitalizes Spruce’s legacy and returns it to its place in the history of American art.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.4270494
    Boost: 1
  • A black-and-white close-up photograph of an autumn maple leaf surrounded by other foliage.

    Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../ansel-adams-eloquent-light-0
    May 29–November 7, 2010

    Drawn from the Carter’s holdings and a private collection, this exhibition highlighted Adams’s quest to “rekindle an appreciation of the marvelous” through his masterful depictions of the West in the romantic tradition of the American landscape.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.413162
    Boost: 1
  • An abstract, geometric print in red, black, and gray.

    Louise Nevelson: Prints

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../louise-nevelson-prints
    February 17–July 31, 2016

    Though Louise Nevelson is known for her sculpture, Prints explores a series of lithographs she created in the 1960s. These prints share with her sculpture an interest in silhouetted forms, but her use of vivid color sets them apart.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.40941
    Boost: 1
  • A realistic oil painting of four rumpled quilts.

    Sedrick Huckaby: Hidden in Plain Site

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../sedrick-huckaby-hidden-plain-site
    May 14, 2013–February 2, 2014

    Using the freedom quilts of the past as a guide, Hidden in Plain Site uses a variety of metaphors and symbols encoded in patterns to address the idea of spiritual slavery as it exists today.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.3868319
    Boost: 1
  • A watercolor of a freight ship deck made with precise lines and geometric shapes in whites, browns, grays, and blues.

    The Allure of Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../allure-paper-drawings-and-watercolors-collection
    July 9–October 9, 2011

    This special exhibition showcases one-of-a-kind works on paper never before exhibited together, chronicling the sweeping changes that occurred in American art over the course of nearly 200 years from portraiture and history painting to modernism and abstraction.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.3561723
    Boost: 1
  • Four specimen vials containing (L-R): a flower, a crustacean pincer, a blade of grass, a stem and leaf.

    The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../perilous-texas-adventures-mark-dion
    February 8–July 5, 2020

    Part explorer, part historian, and part naturalist, artist Mark Dion retraces the footsteps of several 19th-century Texas explorers, collecting materials to form an exhibition that enhances our understanding of the past and brings it to life in the present day.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.3478036
    Boost: 1
  • Celia Álvarez Muñoz: El Límite

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../celia-alvarez-munoz-el-limite
    January 17–October 18, 2026

    Artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz will transform the Museum’s first floor sloping gallery with a new site-specific commission that explores the railroad and its role in the connection and division of countries, traditions, cultures, and languages.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.2971356
    Boost: 1
  • A detail of an oil painting of a standing White woman dressed in white, holding her skirt up with one hand and a bundle of flat glass in the other.

    Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../sargent-whistler-and-venetian-glass-american-artists-and-magic-murano
    June 26–September 11, 2022

    This exhibition pairs the sparkling splendor of glass goblets and marvelous mosaics with paintings and prints by the leading 19th-century American artists. Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano brings to life the Venetian glass revival between 1860 and 1915 and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for visiting artists.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.2604342
    Boost: 1
  • A black-and-white photograph that resembles an X-ray showing the internal structures of a spherical seed.

    Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../dornith-doherty-archiving-eden
    August 9, 2017–January 14, 2018

    Archiving Eden displays photographs inspired by the work of international seed banks and ecologists to construct a visual meditation on botanical diversity and showcases the pure aesthetic pleasure of seeds and their transformations into plants.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.2372072
    Boost: 1
  • A silver and black analog alarm clock with the time at 10:10.

    Jan Staller: CYCLE & SAVED

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../jan-staller-cycle-saved
    February 24–September 23, 2018

    In this exhibition, Staller reflects on consumerism and waste in contemporary society through works that trace the life of everyday objects, meditating on what we choose to keep, what we throw away, and what happens to the objects we consume.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.2031561
    Boost: 1
  • Looking In: Photography from the Outside

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../looking-photography-outside
    December 21, 2019–July 5, 2020

    Looking In: Photography from the Outside examines the way artists have photographed groups they are not part of through an in-depth look at series by six important 20th-century artists who navigated their role as “outsider” differently.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.1723548
    Boost: 1
  • A black-and-white photograph of a group of young Asian men playing soccer in a dirt courtyard of a multi-story apartment building.

    An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../an-my-le-contested-terrain
    April 18–August 8, 2021

    The first comprehensive survey of the work of Vietnamese-American photographer An-My Lê explores the edges of war and records landscapes of conflict in beautiful, classically composed photographs. Her images draw the viewer into deeper consideration of complex themes of history and power.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.1637927
    Boost: 1
  • An abstract print of four boats composed of brightly colored shapes outlined in white.

    American Masters of the Woodcut

    www.cartermuseum.org/.../american-masters-woodcut
    March 29–October 12, 2003

    This exhibition presents a survey of the resurgence of relief printmaking in America, when it was transformed into a lively art form well suited to accommodate a highly personal and experimental approach to graphic expression.

    Exhibition
    Score: 1.1301323
    Boost: 1
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