Exhibitions and Series

2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. But perhaps no other country quite envisioned itself through the bright hues and bold brushstrokes of Impressionism as did the United States. Artists celebrated the country’s diverse natural beauty. Drawn solely from the Brauer’s holdings, this exhibition contains works by leading American Impressionists like Mary Cassatt, and Childe Hassam, as well as such Midwesterners as T.C. Steele, Adolph Shulz, and Louis Oscar Griffith, known for their paintings of Brown County, Indiana, and Chicagoans Pauline Palmer and Anna Lee Stacey. While Karl Anderson and Robert Reid preferred to paint the genteel life of the East Coast bourgeoisie, Edgar Payne and William Wendt roughed it, riding out on horseback into the southwestern desert and California mountain ranges. Adolph Heinze rode the rails for western railroads, painting landscapes to appeal to adventurous tourists. Frank V. Dudley stayed closer to home, making a career of painting the Indiana Dunes.

• Betty LaDuke: Social Justice Revisited: Remembering • Reliving • Resisting (PDF) August 20 – December 8, 2019

• Krista Steinke: Good Luck with the Sun and other works (PDF)
  August 21 – December 9, 2018

• The Indiana Dunes Revisited: Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant (PDF) August 22 – December 10, 2017
• Old Master Prints from a Private Collection (PDF) August 22 – December 10, 2017
• The Art of Ernst Schwidder (PDF) April 11 – May 14, 2017
• Sand and Steel: Visions of Our Indiana Shore (PDF) January 10 – April 2, 2017
• Borders by Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir (PDF) October, 2014 – March, 2017

• Paintings by Frank V. Dudley from the James Moeller Collection (PDF) May 17 – August 7, 2016
• Sacred Spaces and Objects: The Visual, Material, and Tangible (PDF) April 13 – May 8, 2016
• Michael Miller: An Appreciation (PDF) January 8 – April 3, 2016
• So Small Between the Stars, So Large Against the Sky: Studies for a Monument New Works by Neil Goodman (PDF) January 8 – April 3, 2016
• Carlos Lopez: A Forgotten Michigan Painter (PDF) January 8 – April 3, 2016
• Celebrating Life: Betty LaDuke Retrospective Exhibition (PDF) January 8 – April 3, 2016

• Hermann Gurfinkel: Hidden Northwest Indiana Legend (PDF) May 15 – August 9, 2015

• From 2/11 to Today: Recent Work by Ted Halkin (PDF) August 26 – December 14, 2014
• Selections from the Andy Nunemaker Collection (PDF) August 26 – December 14, 2014
• Parallel Pursuits: Tom Brand – Finding Form
  Carole Stodder – Shaping Space (PDF) May 16 – August 10, 2014
• Trucks: Recent Work by John Himmelfarb (PDF) January 7 – April 6, 2014
• Mr. Imagination: Chicago Self-Taught Artist (PDF) January 7 – April 6, 2014

• Light Journey: An Odyssey in Paint (PDF) A Mid-Career Retrospective Exhibition of the Art of Su Kwak, December 1, 2012 – March 17, 2013

• Healing Pool: An Installation by Brian Knep (PDF) December 2, 2011 – March 18, 2012

• Mindless Mayhem: The Art of Ron Villani (PDF) December 2, 2011 – March 18, 2012

• The Art of George Ames Aldrich (PDF) August 21 – November 16, 2012

• The Art of the Newel: The Jay W. Christopher Collection (PDF) August 23 – November 18, 2011
• Henry Diltz: Woodstock and Friends (PDF) August 23 – November 18, 2011
• Damned: Sculpture by Ronald Gonzalez (PDF) August 23 – November 18, 2011
• Recent Views of An Inner World: Paintings by Richard Loving (PDF) December 3, 2010 – March 20, 2011