Exhibition Opening

Huntsville Photographic Society: 2019 Members’ Showcase Guild Gallery On Display August 25 – November 17, 2019 Preview Reception Thursday, August 22, 2019 Hosted by the Huntsville Photographic Society and the Huntsville Museum of Art Education Department Member Tickets: FREE | Non-member Tickets: $5 after 5 p.m. (pay at the door) Join us for the Preview [...]

Chan Gallery | October 13, 2019 – January 12, 2020 The Museum has recently launched a project to commission hand-carved and gilded period reproduction frames for key works in this Collection. To date, 24 watercolors, oils and pastels have been transformed through the endeavor. Reframed will provide the public with an opportunity to encounter all [...]

Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America are still considered the finest prints of their kind published in America. He eventually produced 150 folio drawings, hand-colored and printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. This exhibition presents 24 original large-format Audubon prints from the Viviparous Quadrupeds series, donated to the Museum several years ago from an important [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]