The Newport Art Museum will present 'Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color' from July 12 to December 31, 2025, the first major retrospective in decades of the Gilded Age artist. Curated by Ricardo Mercado, the exhibition features over 55 paintings, many unseen publicly for over 60 years, and will be held in the museum's Cushing Gallery, named after the artist and funded by his patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
This exhibition matters because it revives the legacy of a once-celebrated but now overlooked American artist whose work bridges Gilded Age elegance and modernist expression. With over 90% of Cushing's oeuvre held in private collections, the show reunites his art with Newport, the city that shaped his career, and offers a rare opportunity for public rediscovery and scholarly reassessment.