Youth Art Month is observed nationally each March to emphasize the value of art education for children and to encourage public support for quality school art programs. It is hosted each year in Huntsville by The Huntsville Museum of Art’s Museum Academy. Youth Art Month also provides a forum for recognizing skills developed through [...]
Huth, Boeing, Salmon & Haws Galleries November 10, 2023 – January 14, 2024 Wolfgang Stäntler, Swept-Hilt Sword for the Munich Town Guard, about 1600, steel, iron with blueing, and wood, 101.9 × 85.1 × 4.5 × 18 cm (40 1/8 × 33 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.), 3 lb., 3 [...]
Adtran, Jurenko and Thurber Galleries May 7 - August 6, 2023 Margaret Jordan Patterson (American, 1867-1950), Dwarf Oaks, Sardinia, ca. 1928. Watercolor on paper. 14.5 x 18.75 in. In the decades following the U.S. Civil War, many American artists eagerly flocked to Europe’s great art centers, seeking inspiration, patronage, and formal artistic [...]
May 7 – August 6, 2023 Guild Gallery Philip Flowers, Angel, 2023. Kodak Endua Pro Luster paper. Image courtesy of the artist and the Huntsville Photographic Society, AL. Whether through intriguing subjects or moody settings, images that express a sense of wonder, curiosity, bewilderment, or even confusion activate our imaginations and force [...]
Huth, Boeing I, and Salmon Galleries July 15 - October 15, 2023 Pablo Picasso, Tête de Femme au Chapeau, 1962, color linocut on Arches watermarked paper, 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches, 34 x 30 inches framed. Image courtesy of Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Lecture & Reception with Megan Fontanella, [...]
Haws Gallery July 15 - October 15, 2023 Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935), Le Soir, Jetee de Flessingue, 1898, color lithograph, 8 x 10.25 in. Huntsville Museum of Art, Leonard Walker Peeler Bequest. After the invention of photography, printmaking as a medium was no longer utilitarian–required as a tool of preproduction–it could now be [...]
Huth, Boeing, Salmon and Haws Galleries April 2 - June 18, 2023 Reason Bell Crafft (1812–1873), Masonic Master Mason Apron, 1855–1865, ink, paint, and gold paint on leather, with silk binding, Collection of the American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel, Photo by José Andrés Ramírez [...]
Chan Gallery November 27, 2022- May 28, 2023 Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900-1988), Portrait of Ethel Waters, 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in. Presented by the HMA Black History Month Committee The Huntsville Museum of Art is pleased to have the opportunity to showcase its permanent collection of works created by [...]
June 10 - October 15, 2023 Chan Gallery William Frye (German-born American, 1822-1872), Portrait of Lucy Anne Spotswood Matthews, ca. 1850s-1860s, Oil on canvas. 36 x 29 in. Huntsville Museum of Art, Gift of Annie Waesche. Aron Belka (American, b. 1974), Clifton Faust, 2018. Oil on canvas. [...]
Adtran, Jurenko, Thurber and Guild Galleries March 12 - April 23, 2023 This year marks the 36th annual Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition of student artwork on view at the Huntsville Museum of Art in the Adtran, Jurenko, Thurber, and Guild Galleries. This exhibition showcases nearly 200 exuberant works of art by youth in [...]
