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National Gallery of Art lends historic works to the Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, has opened an exhibition titled "The Golden Age: Featuring Northern European Artworks from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art," featuring 10 masterworks from 1537 to 1700 on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show includes paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Louis Vallée, and runs through April 4, 2027. The Figge is one of ten small to mid-size museums selected for the National Gallery's "Across the Nation" initiative, which sends key works to institutions nationwide to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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A small selection of the nation's largest public Haitian art collection is now on display in Des Moines

A selection of 15 pieces from the Waterloo Center for the Arts' Haitian art collection—the largest publicly held collection of its kind in the United States—is now on display at the Des Moines Art Center through summer 2025. The exhibition, titled "Light with Ourselves: Haitian Art in Iowa," includes paintings, metalwork, ritual objects, and beaded sequined banners called drapo, co-curated by Elizabeth Gollnick of the Des Moines Art Center and Chawne Paige of the Waterloo Center for the Arts. The collection began with a donation from F. Harold Reulin and his wife and has grown to over 2,000 pieces since 1977.

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