The article discusses the exhibition Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum touring at the Allentown Art Museum, highlighting major American artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, Kenneth Noland, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove and Helen Frankenthaler and noting the loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) is the focus of Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings, an exhibition at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard, Cambridge, MA. The show features seventeen Mondrian works created in Europe and finished in America, including loans from MoMA, the Tate Modern, The Phillips Collection, and the Kimbell Art Museum, and runs April 28 to July 22, 2001.
Julia’s auction in Fairfield, Maine, achieved a world record of $109,000 for an Ames presentation sword once owned by Civil War Major General Jesse Reno; other notable items included a Confederate flag, a blunderbuss, and an inscribed Confederate canteen, with prices of $43,000, nearly $29,000, and $12,000 respectively.
The Baltimore Museum of Art press release dated April 9, 2001 discusses the grand reopening of the Cone Collection galleries, highlighting a $4 million renovation and expansion featuring Matisse works and more than 100 works across paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is a recipient of the first Disaronno Originale Photography Collection, comprising eighteen photographs by thirteen international artists. The collection will tour four participating museums through 2001. The UC Berkeley Art Museum will receive six photographs by Ernesto Neto, Tacita Dean, Joseph Grigely, and David Shrigley.