Norton Museum of Art — Fall 2025 / Spring 2026

Location: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Dates: Sept 2025 – Mar 2026

Projects: Leslie Hewitt, Rembrandt & The Leiden Collection, Anastasia Samoylova, Shara Hughes

Why it Matters: A season that connects Dutch masters with contemporary artists reshaping how we see history, landscape, and memory.

This fall and spring the Norton Museum of Art presents four exhibitions that move between seventeenth-century Holland and the current American landscape, between archival memory and psychological space.

Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales (Sept 13 – Feb 22) layers family photographs with magazines, protest flyers, and government records. Shot from above on her studio floor, the works compress private and collective memory. Her photograms use color as both form and idea, opening questions about how history is seen and remembered.

Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection (Oct 25 – Apr 5) is the largest U.S. presentation of Dutch Golden Age painting from a private collection. More than 70 works are on view, including 17 Rembrandts and a rare Vermeer. The exhibition shows how Dutch painters turned daily life—markets, music, devotion—into enduring images of human presence.

Rembrandt van Rijn - Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell) 1624-1625

Arent de Gelder - Christ on the Mount of Olives 1715

Rembrandt van Rijn - Minerva in Her Study 1635

Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Nov 15 – Mar 1) retraces Route 1 from Florida to Maine. Her photographs and collage paintings picture the landscape as both myth and fracture, shaped by commerce, politics, and nostalgia. It is less a geographic survey than a visual essay on how the country imagines itself.

Shara Hughes: Inside Outside (Nov 15 – Mar 29) brings new energy to the landscape genre. Her saturated canvases blur abstraction and figuration, making the outdoors feel like psychological terrain. Alongside the paintings, new ceramic works extend her intuitive, improvisational approach into three dimensions.

Taken together, the four exhibitions present art as a way of holding history and the present in view at the same time—whether through Rembrandt’s portraits, Hewitt’s archival fragments, Samoylova’s fractured Americana, or Hughes’ interior landscapes.

More Info: norton.org

Cover: Pieter van Laer - Self-Portrait with Magic Scene - 1635-1637