UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
American Masterpieces from The Daywood Collection
July 5 – October 4, 2009, Daywood Gallery
People’s Choice – Vote for your Favorite Artwork from The Daywood CollectionSince this collection was acquired by the Museum in 1967, a selection of works from The Daywood Collection has been on view on numerous occasions. Over the years, visitors have come to know this extraordinary collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and glass amassed by West Virginia natives Ruth Woods and Arthur Spencer Dayton between the years 1916 and 1965.
This exhibition of selected works presents American highlights and includes many of America’s best-known academic and realist artists working in the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries.
Now you have the opportunity to vote for your favorite artwork. Get your opinion counted! Have your say and let us know what you like!
We will have a ballot box in the Daywood Gallery, and each Friday we will collect your votes and post the winning artwork here on our website. Come see many “old friends” and discover works you may have never noticed! They may become your new favorite!
Come vote – and come often!
This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the WVCA American Masterpieces program. This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Reflections on Water
Bridge Gallery
June 13 – August 9, 2009Water has long served as a source of inspiration for artists, especially for Impressionist painters and watercolorists who painted their scenes en plein air, or outside in the actual environments they chose to depict.
The visual phenomena of sunlight sparkling across a rippling pool or the dappled reflection of foliage from summer trees were a well-met challenge for realist painters to accomplish. Reflections on Water is a small exhibition of highlights from the Museum’s relatively large collection of works that focus on the beauty of water, but also on its natural power, and the pleasure it brings to adults and children alike on a hot summer day.
Featured pieces include the tranquil splendor of John Henry Twachtman’s Boat at Anchor from 1895-1899, in which the Impressionist palette of soft pastels depicts a sole boat against the shore of an idyllic country landscape. Pillar of Shadow by John Clifford Huffington, from 1926, shares the Impressionist color scheme but depicts a boat at sea against a marvelously dramatic cloud filled sky, while Millard Leroy Metcalf’s boats sail calmly on the horizon seen through summer trees at the shoreline in 1895’s Summer Day, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Celebrating the start of summer, Reflections on Water provides an idyllic view of the importance of our seas, lakes, and rivers to many artists over the past centuries.
