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"Thomas Sully: Painted Performance reveals the full breadth of Sully's artistic imagination and celebrates his unique contribution to America's artistic and cultural life," said William Keyse Rudolph, exhibition co-curator and the Dudley J. Godfrey, Jr. Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition is co-curated by Carol Eaton Soltis, Project Associate Curator of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is accompanied by a 192-page, full-color and fully illustrated scholarly catalogue. The exhibition will travel to the San Antonio Museum of Art, February 5–May 11, 2014. Celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, the Milwaukee Art Museum houses more than 30,000 works, with strengths in 19thand 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum campus on the shores of Lake Michigan spans three buildings, including the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion and the Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center. Located at 700 N. Art Museum Dr., the Museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun., with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursdays. General admission, which includes all special exhibitions, is $17 for adults and $14 for students, seniors, and active military. Kids 12 and under are always free. There is no admission charge the first Thursday of every month (excluding groups). Visit www.mam.org for more information. The exhibition provides a major new look at one of the most important nineteenth-century American artists Clockwise: Frances Anne Kemble as Beatrice, 1833, Oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Sarah Esther Hinddman as Little Red Riding Hood, 1833 oil on canvas, The Maryland State Archives. Photo by Harry Connolly. Major Thomas Biddle, 1818 Oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire, 1843 Oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art. 9