Art, Nature and the American City, 1840-1955:
Selections from the Spanierman Gallery
through October 10, 2010
Reception: Friday, July 16 at 6 pm
Lecture: Tuesday, October 5 at 6 pm in the Art Gallery
Overview of the exhibition by Dr. Lisa N. Peters, Director of Research and Publications, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, NY
Sponsored by: West Virginia Humanities Council
Art, Nature and the American City features ninety paintings and drawings by more than 50 artists. The exhibition represents major American art movements in a 115-year period, from the Hudson River School’s romantic landscapes and the American Impressionists' sun-drenched scences to the Precisionists' abstract cityscapes and the Ashcan School’s gritty urban scenes.
Among the artists are: Henry Boese, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Theodore Earl Butler, William Glackens, Philip Leslie Hale, Ernest Lawson, Hayley Lever, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, John Henry Twachtman and Alexander Helwig Wyant. Several American artists that are not easily classified, such as Gershon Benjamin and James Henry Daugherty, are also represented. Benjamin's etheral abstractions of urban and rural scenes are reminiscent of Milton Avery's work, while Daughtery applied Synchromist theories to landscapes as well as non-objective paintings.
Kenyon C. Cox (American, 1856-1919)
After the Harvest (Ohio Valley), 1888
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of Spanierman Gallery, NY, NY
Urban and Rural Landscapes
from the Permanent Collection
through November 14, 2010
Organized by the Clay Center
The Clay Center’s permanent collection includes over 200 landscapes and cityscapes dating from 1835 to 2006. This exhibition includes visitors’ favorites – such as Consumer Coal Company by Stuart Davis, Winter on the River by Ernest Lawson and Triptych West Virginia by Barry Vance – as well as works that have rarely been exhibited. Among the paintings are: Via Appia by John Linton Chapman, Hiding Places by Darren Vigil Gray, Vue d’Alger by Pierre Albert Marquet and Halcyon Days by Gayle Surface.
Stuart Davis
Consumer Coal Company
Oil on Linen
Collection of the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of WV
Gift of Amherst Coal Company
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