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Table Top Bronze Sculptures by Women Artists
January 14 - May 13, 2012
Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall
The Huntington Museum of Art has a superb collection of small-scale, “table top” bronzes by American women artists working in the last decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Most of these women were contemporaries of one another. Many of them worked in a realistic style and used the lost wax casting method to depict women in various poses and attitudes.
Most of these works come from the collections of Herbert Fitzpatrick, and Arthur and Ruth Dayton. The Daytons assembled The Daywood Collection, which includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and glass, from the 1920s through the early 1960s. The Daywood Collection was gifted to the Huntington Museum of Art in 1967.
This small exhibition in the Museum’s Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall will provide a look at these pioneering sculptresses who at the time were working in a medium dominated by male artists.
The exhibit includes examples of work by the following: Doris Porter Caesar, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Chana Orloff, Edith Bardetto Parsons, Marguerite Stix, Grace Helen Talbot, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh.
This exhibit is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and the Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
Harvey Littleton: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Glass Studio Movement
January 14 - November 18, 2012
Glass Gallery
The 50th anniversary of studio glass art in America is being observed in 2012. To celebrate this milestone and recognize talented artists, the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG), a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to further the development and appreciation of art made from glass, has initiated more than 100 glass demonstrations, lectures and exhibitions that will take place in museums, galleries and art centers across the country throughout 2012. The Huntington Museum of Art will participate in this celebration with a small exhibit in the Museum’s Glass Gallery of six early glass sculptures by Harvey Littleton from the Museum’s permanent collection.
The American Studio Glass movement began with two glass workshops held at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962. The workshops were taught by Harvey K. Littleton, who, along with scientist Dominick Labino, introduced a small furnace built for glassworking that made it possible for individual artists to work in independent studios. Glass programs were then established by Littleton at the University of Wisconsin, at the California College of the Arts by Marvin Lipofsky, and later at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), led by artist Dale Chihuly, to name but a few.
To learn more about the observations of the 50th anniversary of studio glass art in America, visit http://contempglass.org/2012-celebration
This exhibit is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and the Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
