The Life and Art of Mary Petty Chan Gallery April 22 - July 15, 2018 American illustrator Mary Petty began her career with The New Yorker magazine in 1927. During the 1930s the artist became more and more preoccupied with the upper class society who inhabited the brownstones and mansions of the [...]
Duty, Honor, Country: Highlights from the West Point Museum Collection Huth, Boeing, Salmon and Haws Galleries March 25 - July 8, 2018 The West Point Museum in West Point, NY owns the oldest and largest diversified public collection of militaria in the Western Hemisphere. This impressive holding of over 60,000 objects chronicles [...]
Encounters: Jim Jobe Grisham Gallery April 8 - July 1, 2018 Check out the critical review in Asian Art News below: The latest exhibition in this long-standing showcase for outstanding regional contemporary art focuses on the accomplished works of the respected Huntsville artist, Jim Jobe. Jobe’s paintings and drawings [...]
Looking at the Collection: Recent Acquisitions and a Celebration of African-American History Month February 1 - April 8, 2018 Image captions: Left: Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900-1988), Portrait of Ethel Waters, 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in. Top right: Aimee Perez (Contemporary American), Rare Harvest, 2016, mixed media, 65 x 13 x [...]
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection Huth, Boeing, Salmon & Haws Galleries October 21, 2018 – January 13, 2019 Tiffany Studios, Group of lamps (birds-eye- detail). Photograph by John Faier. © 2018 Driehaus Museum. A celebration of beauty, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection features more than 60 objects, [...]
Connections: Hoss Haley, George Peterson and Tom Shields Grisham Gallery December 3, 2017 - March 25, 2018 The Huntsville Museum of Art is pleased to present the fifth installment of its new Connections exhibition series focused on contemporary artists linked in terms of subject matter and sensibility. Connections: Hoss Haley | George Peterson | Tom [...]
Cut Up/Cut Out Adtran, Jurenko, Thurber and Guild Galleries November 19, 2017 - February 11, 2018 The art of cutting paper dates back thousands of years, with early artworks coming from 6th century China. Originally a decorative handcraft for women, Chinese paper-cutting eventually expanded into rural areas, becoming a staple at religious [...]
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera Huth, Boeing, Salmon and Haws Galleries November 5, 2017 - January 28, 2018 Above Image: Bill Scovill, Photographer, Reference Photograph of Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell says 'Pan American Was My Magic Carpet Around the World,' advertisement for Pan American Airways, Inkjet print, Norman Rockwell Collection, ©1956 Norman Rockwell Family [...]
Secrets Behind the Wall: The Don Trachte Replicas November 5, 2017 – January 28, 2018 Image Caption: Don Trachte sitting at the drawing board working on his strip, Henry. Don Trachte was a cartoonist who became close friends with Norman Rockwell. In 1962, Trachte bought Rockwell’s 1954 Saturday Evening Post cover painting, Breaking Home [...]
The Birds of America: Audubon Aquatints From the Kathy & Michael Mouron Collection Grisham Gallery July 23 - November 19, 2017 About the Collection This exhibition presents 24 of the 435 prints comprising the best known work of 19th century American naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851): the folio of engravings entitled The [...]
