EXHIBITIONS.

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THROUGH JUNE 25
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9400

Featuring more than 52 watercolors and pastels, this exhibition focuses on works created during the period between 1875 and 1950, when artists such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Edward Hopper were establishing watercolor as a medium for finished works, not just preparatory studies. The pieces in this exhibition are drawn from the Fogg Art Museum's permanent collection as well as from a variety of other institutions; and many of the featured paintings have not been publicly viewed since the Fogg's 1936 exhibition "American Watercolors From the Museum's Collection."

THROUGH JULY 2
James A. Michener Art Museum
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
www.michenerartmuseum.org
(215) 340-9800

This collection of 62 paintings bestowed to the James A. Michener Art Museum by Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest showcases works created by major Pennsylvania impressionist painters, such as Edward W. Redfield, Daniel Garber, John F. Folinsbee, and Fern I. Coppedge. As the museum's curator of collections, Constance Kimmerle, states, "In gifting this collection back to the region in which it was created, the Lenfests have made it possible for museum visitors to engage [Pennsylvania] painters on their native ground and explore the environment that shaped their creations."

JUNE 4 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, Massachusetts
www.clarkart.edu
(413) 458-2303
An illustrated catalogue is available.

This exhibition of more than 60 paintings features the collections of brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, two influential art connoisseurs of the early 20th century. The show will examine the brothers' various collecting styles, as well as explore their relationship, their rivalry, and the influential roles they played in the New York art scene. Among the highlights of the exhibition will be a number of iconic works from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Van Gogh's The Night Carl" and Renoir's At the Concert. Following its premiere at the Clark, the exhibition will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, in 2007.

JUNE 25 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 24
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
www.mfa.org
(617) 267-9300
An illustrated catalogue is available.

Showcasing the work of such artists as James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Winslow Homer, this exhibition of approximately 100 paintings includes some of America's finest 19th-century masterpieces. The featured works are culled from the collections of the National Gallery, in London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, as well as loans from both the United States and Europe. Before arriving at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the show debuted at the National Gallery, in Washington, DC, and will travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, where it will be on display from October 17, 2006, through January 28, 2007.

PHOTO (COLOR): TOP: Group in the Simplon by John Singer Sargent, 1911, watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 14 3/16 x 20. Collection Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PHOTO (COLOR): ABOVE: Mink Pond by Winslow Homer, 1891, watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper, 13 3/4 x 20. Collection Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PHOTO (COLOR): Autumn by Fern I. Coppedge, oil, 25 x 30. Collection James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

PHOTO (COLOR): ABOVE LEFT: The Night Café (Le Café de Nuit) by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, oil, 28 1/2 x 36 1/4. Collection Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

PHOTO (COLOR): ABOVE: Les Dernier Jours d'Enface by Cecilia Beaux, 1885, oil, 45 3/4 x 54. Collection Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

PHOTO (COLOR): LEFT: At the Florist by Frederick Childe Hassam, 1889, oil, 36 1/4 x 54 1/4,. Collection Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.