Organized by the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia

From Houdini to Hugo presents over 100 pencil illustrations, pen and ink drawings, acrylics and models by the award-winning children’s author and illustrator, Brian Selznick.

Melissa Dunn’s thoughtful and colorful abstract paintings reflect her respect for art and design movements of the past while being acutely in touch with her contemporaries.

The Dixon is pleased to present the work of Memphis artist Daniel Tacker, who fuses analog and digital, commercial and natural imagery in his highly graphic and vibrantly colorful acrylic paintings.

Organized and produced with the Petit Palais, the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris

John Rogers (1829-1904) was an American sculptor during the latter half of the nineteenth century most known for his small genre plaster sculptures.

Organized by the New-York Historical Society.

Private Memphis highlights the outstanding works of art housed in some of Memphis' greatest private collections.

Over 100,000 spring flowers will bloom at the Dixon in March & April.

Tremendously talented with a belief in social justice, American artist Joe Jones sought out subjects of social significance ranging from labor unrest on the St. Louis waterfront to scenes of environmental disaster in the Dust Bowl. 

Organized by the St. Louis Art Museum

See some of Memphis’ most promising young artists in 10 under 30. 

Objects of Wonder brings together 52 works of art from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida and examines the idea of still-life painting from the Ming dynasty in China to the early 2000s.

In the Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries

Memphis artist George Bougher displays his landscape paintings, primarily in watercolor. His work, always intimate and sometimes spiritual, hearkens back to the landscapes of the American Scene movement, sometimes brutally honest in their depictions of poverty.

Richmond Barthé is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. Upon moving to New York in 1928, Barthé established a studio in Harlem and became associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He is known for his emotional sculptures that incorporate both African and African-American themes as well as for his many public works.

This exhibition will focus on the contrast between the works of Memphis native John Torina and those of his daughter Clare Torina.

Born in England in 1898, Clare Leighton created over 800 prints and illustrated more than 65 books over her 50 year career both in Great Britain and in the United States, during which she witnessed two World Wars and the Great Depression.

Organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

Helen Turner: ‘The Woman’s Point of View’ brings together forty-one paintings and works on paper by this extraordinary artist.  Developed and organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will focus on the three distinct themes that dominate Turner’s oeuvre: (1) Interiors, (2) Women in Landscapes, and (3) Portraits of Women.

Discover the beauty and whimsy of Iris Harkavy's new outdoor sculpture on view in the Dixon's gardens through August 29.

Born an only child in the small town of Breese, Illinois, Jerome Schmidt lost most of his hearing at an early age. Despite his lack of formal education, art quickly became his outlet for expressing his feelings and observations about life.

Carry Me! transforms 175 vintage Lucite® handbags into individual works of art in the first comprehensive museum presentation of this intriguing fashion accessory. The exhibition reveals their infinite forms, colors and textures and allows the viewer to more thoughtfully observe and appreciate the ladies’ handbag, rediscovered through the dawn of Lucite® in mid-century American design.

Greely Myatt and exactly Twenty Years is a survey of works by the Mississippi-born sculptor and University of Memphis professor of art that will be on display at museums and galleries throughout Memphis. The largest body of work will be shown in a collaborative exhibition at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis and Rhodes College’s Clough-Hanson Gallery. Other exhibition sites include the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, MCA On the Street Gallery, and the P & H Center for the Arts.

Through excerpts of Whitman’s writing paired with some of the most important artworks of the mid-nineteenth century, Bold, Cautious, True creates an authentic window to America’s history and a poignant view of its bloodiest war.

Regional Dialect: American Scene Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection brings together 57 examples of American Scene painting and its antecedents, works that celebrated American identity and spirit during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Celebrate the art of Chile, this year’s Memphis in May honored country, with ¡Abstracto!, a collection of paintings on loan from the Embassy of Chile in Washington, DC. This exciting exhibition explores the prevailing styles in Chile’s pictorial avant-garde in the 1960’s.

Blossom~Art of Flowers includes sixty-one colorful, contemporary floral paintings to combat the mid-winter blues. Featuring beautiful works from artists in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and as far away as Indonesia, this stunning juried show is also spiced with local flavor thanks to the inclusion of Caroline Jones Winters of Germantown, Tennessee.

Memphis artist Hamlett Dobbins brings his unique and colorful paintings to Mallory at Wurtzburger, our on-going series spotlighting artists making a statement in the Memphis area.  In addition to his career as an artist, Dobbins teaches art at Rhodes College and manages Rhodes’ Clough-Hanson Gallery.

Recently discovered in the archives of the permanent art collection at Indiana State University, the holiday greeting cards were originally produced in 1935 as a demonstration set for publication by the Federal Arts Project. The FAP was an important part of the Works Projects Administration. 

This past summer, Mrs. Charlotte Hooker made a major gift of over three hundred pieces of English porcelain to Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Her extraordinary contribution not only strengthens the museum's holdings and enriches the experience of our visitors, it also further establishes the Dixon as a significant destination for scholars, collectors, dealers, and admirers of European porcelain.

Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Paintings from the Walters Art Museum includes works by all the major Barbizon figures as well as examples by Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, the Impressionist painters most deeply influenced by them. The thirty-two paintings in the exhibition all come from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, one of the great repositories for nineteenth-century French painting in America.

Jackson's quirky genre paintings come out of a long tradition of social satire in art, and are infused with a wide array of influences , including Medieval panel painting, Dutch Baroque imagery, Hogarth's social commentary, German expressionism, American scene painting, and twentieth-century propaganda posters. Employing human representations to refer to history, politics, and culture, Jackson sarically compares the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to the extravagance of the belle époque of the 1880s, 1890s and early 1900s. With engaging subjects, scathing humor, and eye-catching color, Toujours L' Audace presents Jackson's painted realities aimed at stimulating thought and discussion on how we live and the choices we make.

As a companion show to this fall's blockbuster The Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Paintings from the Walters Art Museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens has organized The Road to Claude Monet: Four Paintings and Three Others.  This focused exhibition examines the Impressionist tendency to abandon Paris for the inspiration they found in the French countryside or along the Normandy shore. The show includes four canvases by Monet and one each by Camille Corot, Alfred Sisley and Camille Passaro.  The exhibition opens in the Dixon's Brinkley Gallery on September 9 and continues through November 30.

The Dixon is proud to host Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum. Featuring the inspired creations of visionary African American folk artists, the show is drawn entirely from the impressive holdings of the American Folk Art Museum in New York.  Since 1961, this institution has been one of the nation's leading resources for the preservation, study, collection, and enjoyment of America's great folk art traditions.  

The Dixon-organized exhibition Brilliant by Design: Masterpieces of American Cut Glass, 1880-1915 showcases some 75 works from the great age of cut-glass artistry, nearly all chosen from distinguished private collections in the Memphis area. Assembled by Dr. Tom Fortner, a well-known author and expert in cut glass, Brilliant by Design includes stunning examples by all the famous makers of the brilliant period: Dorflinger and Sons, T.G. Hawkes, J. Hoare & Company, and Libbey Glass Company, among others.

Nineteenth-Century Paris was virtually a laboratory of artistic experimentation. Innovation and originality were the twin touchstones of the age, and nowhere were the timeworn conventions of traditional artistic practices more thoroughly overturned than in printmaking. The French avant-garde, led by Edouard Manet along with James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, and others, used the various printmaking media to circulate their bold experiments to the widest possible audience.

The Memphis Flower Show, one of only eight major flower shows sanctioned by The Garden club of America, returns to the Dixon April 26 and 27.  Presented biennially by the Memphis Garden Club, The Memphis Flower Show: M3D On the Edge will exhibit exceptional horticulture, botanical photography, botanical jewelry, and magnificent interpretive floral arrangements.

The extraordinary permanent collection of American paintings, works on paper, and sculpture owned by the Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts has made Mt. Vernon, Illinois, one of the most remarkable small towns in the United States.  The collection was largely formed in the 1940s through the 1960s by John R. and Eleanor R. Mitchell, a prosperous Mt. Vernon couple, who acquired major examples by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, Robert Henri, William Glackens, and others, at a time when American art was underappreciated and much undervalued.  Those artists have since proven to be some of the most crucial figures in the development of American culture.

This exciting new exhibition showcases the original drawings, paintings, and studies of best-selling author and illustrator David Macaulay. His gift for conveying complex concepts in a fun and understandable way has delighted children and adults for years. He has a special genius for explaining the wonder of the way things work—from gadgets to gargantuan buildings—and for bringing readers on extraordinary journeys of imagination. Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay is the first in-depth museum exhibition to explore the work and artistic process of this popular Rhode Island-based artist.

Inspired by the Annual Christmas Tree and the Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jewel Younger Graeber of Marks, Mississippi, assembled this extraordinary 18^th century nativity scene of more than one hundred figures in a panorama setting before a 16-foot tree adorned with angels, over a period of 12 years.

In Babar's Museum of Art, Laurent De Brunhoff features Babar and Celeste turning a beautiful old train station into a museum for their art collection, so that everyone in the kingdom of Celesteville can enjoy it.

The works are clever elephantine interpretations of some of the greatest paintings in western art from the Renaissance to the 20th century.  An elephantine Venus casts up memories of Botticelli while elephants enjoying a day in the park remind viewers of Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte.  The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is proud to display over 35 works on paper, including preliminary sketches and de Brunhoff's original watercolors for the publication.

In America, the radical new style of impressionism blended European approaches to painting with American sensibilities and preferences. Celebrated American artists including Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergrast, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom. Join the Phillips in celebrating 85 years of presenting art with a new exhibition that features more than 65 treasured works from the golden age of American impressionism (ca. 1880-1920), assembled together for the first time in more than a generation.   

A sheer delight to Blue Dog fans and art aficionados alike, this spectacular retrospective exhibition of the artist's forty-year career, provides a comprehensive view of the Rodrigue oeuvre, including many previously unseen works revealing distinct phases of his career. Explore the evolution from oak trees to Evangeline, from Cajun fishermen and politicians to the incomparable Blue Dog which was inspired by loup-garou, a Cajun werewolf, that has now achieved pop icon status and continues to entrance audiences across the nation and around the globe.

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens was pleased to once again display the Younger Foundation Crèche Collection and Bethlehem Tree this holiday season. Inspired by the Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jewel Younger Graeber of Marks, Mississippi, assembled this extraordinary 18th century nativity scene of more than one hundred figures in a panorama set before a 16-tree adorned with angels, over a period of 12 years.

An unrivaled collection of more than 115 works from this turbulent chapter in history will be on view this summer at the Dixon, part of the first nationwide exhibition in the United States.