Orientalism: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East – Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art explores how artists from both Europe and America represented the cultures and peoples of Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa– both real and imagined – during the 19th century. The exhibition explores the artistic legacy of Western [...]
The Huntsville Museum of Art is pleased to present the sixth installment of its exhibition series focused on contemporary artists linked in terms of subject matter and sensibility. The latest installment of this series features two artists from New Orleans whose works revolve around themes of childhood, nature, innocence, and loss. Stephen Paul Day creates [...]
Curated by the HMA Docent Association, FULL STEAM AHEAD! features selections from HMA’s collection that illustrate various elements of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics — disciplines collectively known as STEAM. The exhibition encompasses artworks with scientific subject matter such as wildlife and nature, mathematically patterned abstractions, and art created with the help of engineering [...]
Helen Vaughn (born in 1940, Birmingham, AL/lives in Huntsville, AL) Remembrance and the Cost of Decisions, 1980, oil on canvas, 36.5 x 48.5 in. Museum Purchase in Memory of Amanda and Margaret Lawson Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures, and narrative art can be [...]
Public Enemy, 1987, archival vintage exhibition print, 13 x 19 in. (frame to 24 x 30 in.) This exhibition features 36 hand-selected silver gelatin and color photographs of important African American artists and performers taken by Jack Mitchell over a career spanning five decades. Mitchell died in 2013 at age 88. His first [...]
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 visual [...]
Ladson - Spartan, 32 x 41.5 Encounters: Charles Ladson focuses on the accomplished paintings of this mid-career artist from Macon, GA. Ladson’s works mix conventional aspects of painting like texture, layering, perspective, transparency, and detail — to create images that evoke a sense of mystery and dreamlike reality. Like much Southern art, his [...]
This exclusive exhibition features approximately 35 original works by three of America’s most celebrated and beloved artists — master illustrators Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, and N.C. Wyeth. The stories these artists tell are well-known parts of American history. Parrish used the works of old masters to create his stories, saying that he used paintings to [...]
Looking at the Collection - Stephen Longstreet: All that Jazz - CLOSING DAY Sunday, July 19 | 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Enjoy one last chance to view Looking at the Collection - Stephen Longstreet: All that Jazz. The exhibition will be on display 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. on closing day. The Huntsville Museum [...]
CLA Cristallerie - Lamp with fish, circa 1927-1930, Press-molded glass on fabricated metal base, 8 1/4 x 9 x 5 in. Characterized by smooth lines, geometric shapes, and bright colors, the Art Deco glass movement began, in part, as a reaction against the elaborate and ornate style of Art Nouveau in the late [...]