Curated turns us onto these prints:

“Next week Dave White will be opening his latest exhibition at The Conningsby Gallery in London.

Exploring iconic imagery of the Western Frontier, this exhibition highlights White’s ability to capture dynamic scenes with his distinctive impasto style, while presenting a pioneering approach to documenting the legacy of this era.

The exhibition will feature a series of new oils on canvas, works on paper and limited edition prints. Today we can already preview the two prints that will go on sale.”

See more over at Curated.

With Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts, the American Folk Art Museum has transformed New York’s Park Avenue Armory into a temple of American craft. Undoubtedly one of the most stunning installations of the year, the quilts are only on display through March 30, 2011.

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets)
New York City

Catch it if you can.

A full look at Infinite Variety is found on Curated.

The Grand Rapids Art Museum will open an exhibition of Aududon Prints from the Shelburne Museum on April 15, 2011.

Birds of America is widely recognized by art historians and naturalists alike as the greatest natural history publication of all time. Between 1819 and 1838, John James Audubon and his engraver Robert Havell produced 435 hand-colored and engraved plates of scope and standard never before seen in ornithological recording. Thirty prints have been selected from the collection at Shelburne Museum to demonstrate the duality of Audubon’s work as both artistic compositions and scientific documentation. This exhibition features some of Audubon’s most desirable illustrations, admired for their life-size scale, compelling backgrounds, and often dramatic compositions.

Other than being part of “the greatest natural history publication of all time,” the works set for display are also extraordinarily beautiful.

Visit through August 14, 2011 and don’t forget to eat a wet burrito while in town.

Curated turns us onto this new exhibition.

“This April, Dave White will unveil his latest collection of paintings, Americana, at a solo exhibition in London.”

For more info, go over and check Curated.

Gotham through picture postcards. Little further description is needed for New York in Postcards 1880-1980: The Andreas Adam Collection. The book, edited by Thomas Kramer, releases officially on October 29, 2010, and presents no less than 900 postcards. This number, you might imagine, covers quite a lot of ground. From the obvious to slightly esoteric spots, the Adam’s collection provides comprehensive history through ephemera over a full century.

Captivating. And, available from Amazon.

While the omission of Swanky Frank’s (the finest dinning establishment in Norwalk, CT) raises a red flag, A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour succeeds in careful celebration of a simple delicacy. According to the trailer, 80% of people like hot dogs. Count us among them. And, count us as Connecticut boys who love our State’s roadside eateries.

Purchase the DVD at CTorignals and Amazon.

Images of favorite shacks and a preview of the DVD follow.

Opening on October 28, 2010, at the Whitney, Modern Life gets to the heart of American realism.

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s.

Above: Edward Hopper 1882-1967, South Carolina Morning, 1955. Oil on canvas, 30 9/16 × 40 1/4 in.  (77.63 x  102.24 cm)  Frame 38 1/8 × 48 1/8 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Given in memory of Otto L. Spaeth by his Family  67.13 © Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

The exhibition will close on April 10, 2011. Visit the Whitney to view images from the exhibition.

New from Yale University Press, Alan Allport’s Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two.

What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much-altered labor force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarized by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, reports, novels, and films, Alan Allport illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families, and society at large—a gripping story that’s in danger of being lost to national memory.

Allport is a postdoctoral lecturer at Princeton. His book is a must for all military history buffs, and those celebrating the good old days of mid-century America.

Available from Amazon.

Our friend Chris Milliman has a knack for capturing the American scene. Last Winter, he immersed himself in Snowmobiling and Ice Fishing… pastimes often ignored but undeniably indicative of a certain American spirit. This Summer, Milliman turned his lens to horse shoes, for a project simply titled Shoes. The resulting photographs document a rarely (and I say this without irony) viewed pastime. Honest in their composition, Milliman’s images reveal a world of friendly, if not intense, competition.

More from Shoes after the jump.

When I wrote about the 100th Anniversary of the Pendleton Round-Up, I never imagined the event would soon boast an official fragrance.

Launching officially on September 15, Let’er Buck Cologne “is the cowboy spirit that was captured at the first Round-Up in 1910.” The scent combines citrus notes, soft woods, and a base of white amber. Sponsoring a few keynote bronco-busting athletes, Western Crossings (the folks behind Let’er Buck) “is commited to embracing the the authentic cowboy experience” and all the legend of the Wild West.

Let’er Buck has also partnered with Tough Enough to Wear Pink, a grass roots cowboy campaign to fight breast cancer.

Packaging details follow.