Coming Attractions
The Museum has these exciting exhibitions planned for 2010-2011.
Look With Your Own Eyes: Landscapes, Portraits and Pastimes in American Paintings
October 2010-February 2011
Albert Bierstadt, El Capitan, c.1872.
Many of the stars of the Arkell Museum’s remarkable collection of American paintings are featured in this exhibition. The exhibition showcases the rich variety of America’s landscape from a western landscape of El Capitan by Albert Bierstadt, to Winslow Homer’s dramatic crashing waves on the coast of Maine. Portraits in the exhibition include George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and everyday folk by Thomas Hart Benton. A glimpse at how Americans spent their leisure time in the mid- twentieth century can be seen in The Sand Lot Ball Game by Paul Sample, and in circus scenes by Jon Corbino and Ogden Pleisner. The title of the exhibition comes from Gilbert Stuart who stated: “Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.” Visitors will discover how realist artists’ interpretation of “paint what you see” changed through the decades.
Paul Sample, Sandlot Ball Game, 1938.
