The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection
The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection examines the evolution of the modern environmental movement and our relationship with the earth and all its inhabitants through eighty-eight works of art, including photographs, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, that are categorized in four sections. The Beginnings of Conservation features nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who influenced the…
As If Art Itself Devised It: The Virginia of Eldridge Bagley Folk Paintings
A native of rural Lunenburg County in South Central Virginia, Eldridge Bagley, a third-generation tobacco farmer, began painting more than fifty years ago, when he was still living with his parents and working on their farm. Although he insists that he doesn’t live in the past, he has often stated his belief that there are traditions, convictions, and values that…
Ancient and Imagined Places: Abstractions by Vincencia Blount
This fall, experience the bold, colorful, and dynamic abstract paintings of artist Vincencia Blount. This exhibition features eight of her large-scale works, which are filled with broad brushstrokes, bleeds and splashes, overlapping textures, and a simply brilliant use of color. Known as Tatty to her friends, Blount was born in Miami, Florida, in 1924. She was bold and prolific, exhibiting…
Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Picture This
This traveling exhibition features the work of twelve painters living and working in Georgia who focus on narrative. They are “a diverse group of artists experimenting in narrative painting,” said Didi Dunphy, director, Lyndon House Arts Center. “Each of their own stylistic interpretations, conceptual investigations, cultural messaging, and beauty are represented in this show.” In this remarkable collection, the artists—each…