Hanover, N.H.

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Shelburne, Vt.

When, in 1932, the Metropolitan Museum of Art made its first purchase of a painting by a contemporary artist, it selected a still life by Luigi Lucioni. The Whitney Museum of American Art also bought a painting by him that year, and in 1930 the Museum of Modern Art had included him in its first exhibition of work by young artists. By then, Lucioni (1900-1988) had won numerous awards and been deemed a rising star in the art world. A gifted draftsman, he had earned admission to Cooper Union at age 15, to the National Academy of Design at 19, and to the company of established artists like John Sloan and Childe Hassam a few years later.

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When curator Brian Piper of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) began to study the work of early Black commercial photographers in the 2010s, the subject was largely terra incognita. With very few exceptions, "their photographs were not included in the narrative of art photography," he said. Now Dr. Piper is helping to close that gap with a new exhibition, "Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers," the first museum show to focus on the artistry and social significance of these little-known men and women.

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San Francisco

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Chicago

The first painting visitors to "Cezanne" at the Art Institute of Chicago encounter is "Undergrowth (Sous-Bois)" (c. 1894), a pine-forest scene painted from a bit below the trees, gazing up, with a barely perceivable horizon, and formed from patches of distinct marks that suggest just a slight fluttering. Some elements, like a rust-colored mound on the left, take shape only from several steps away.

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