A double exposure photograph of vocalist and civil rights activist Nina Simone is one of 30 memorable images that will be shown this summer at Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland.

By August, nearly 30 photographs by Charles “Teenie” Harris will be exhibited in a hallway just off the museum’s main foyer. A photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper for 42 years, Harris documented Pittsburgh’s black community, capturing families, children, soldiers, athletes, entertainers, musicians, politicians and the struggle for civil rights. Harris was 89 when he died in 1998. 

Harris’ photographs are shown at the museum periodically, including in “Hair” in 2013, “Civil Rights” in 2015 and “Jazz from the Hill” in 2018. Early next year, a gallery at the end of the Scaife wing will regularly feature Harris’ photos. In 2001, the museum acquired 80,000 of Harris’ negatives. So far, 59,032 have been digitized and made available online.

“A Pittsburgh Anthology” opens on Aug. 15. This rotating, ongoing exhibition of 25-30 artworks celebrates creativity in the city’s buildings, communities and landscapes. Since 1895, the art museum has collected works that are about and for Pittsburgh. Each artwork or object will show how artists engaged with the city and tried to capture its spirit.

Among the works will be “Toaster” by Vanessa German, a gift to the museum from Jason, Andrew and Norman Jabaut in honor of Ms. German. A blue Pennsylvania Railroad map that is more than 5 feet wide will be part of the anthology show and is sure to fascinate railroad buffs. Evan Mirapaul, a local collector, gave it to the museum.

Eric Crosby, the art museum’s acting director, said that the anthology show “puts a new lens on the collection. What can this tell us about creative life in Pittsburgh, both past and present?” Architecture, decorative and fine arts, contemporary and modern art and photography will be represented as new works go on view. Printed cards, displayed near each artwork, will be free for the taking.

On Sept. 20, the Forum Gallery will showcase a new sculpture by California artist Margaret Honda, who offers a contemporary take on a Renaissance painting she saw in Milan, Italy. The Los Angeles-based artist modeled the sculpture after a frog that symbolizes evil in Bramantino’s 1520 painting “Madonna delle Torri” (Madonna of the Towers). 

Ms. Honda collaborated with Hollywood prop makers to build the armature of the surreal sculpture, which is 5 feet long. It will be on view through Jan. 26.

“So many contemporary artists are interested in this relationship between images and objects, the digital screen and physical presence,” Mr. Crosby said. “For Margaret to be so impressed by this Renaissance painting, it just sounded like a wonderful notion for a new work.”

In the fall, a traveling exhibition of prints by Jasper Johns, one of America’s most influential artists, goes on view in the Heinz Galleries. “An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018” was organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The show opens in Pittsburgh on Oct. 12 and runs through Jan. 19.

Johns’ paintings of flags and targets brought him wide acclaim in 1958. His work links Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. During the past 60 years, Johns has continued to paint, draw and make prints.

“An Art of Changes” features 90 artworks, including intaglio, lithography, woodcuts, linoleum cuts, screen printing and lead reliefs. Besides the artist’s familiar flags and targets, the images explore artists’ tools, materials and techniques of mark-making. There are abstract works based on motifs known as flagstones and hatch marks and later works that show autobiographical and personal imagery.

Johns, Mr. Crosby said, “was painting American flags before Warhol was screen printing his flowers and Marilyns. He truly reinvented the print medium in the 1960s.”

On Nov. 2, the museum opens “A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life.” This exhibition celebrates 250 years of still life painting from the Dutch Golden Age to America’s Gilded Age. Once viewed as the lowliest of the painting genres, still lifes feature mundane and luxurious objects but also allude to morality and the transient nature of life.

Loans from the Detroit Institute of Arts and several local collectors will be featured, along with two recent bequests from the late Drue Heinz, including “Still Life With Lemons,” the only Dutch Golden Age still life in the museum’s collection, which will be on view for the first time.

Marylynne Pitz: mpitz@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1648 or on Twitter:@mpitzpg

First Published: July 3, 2019, 12:00 p.m.