Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Laurel, MS
601-649-6374
American Landscapes from the Paine Art
Center & Arboretum
August 20 - October 8, 2000
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is pleased to announce a major exhibition
of American oil paintings, watercolors, etchings and lithographs from the
Paine Art Center & Arboretum in Oskosh, Wisconsin. The exhibit features
highlights of a collection formed in the mid-1920s by Nathan and Jessie
Kimberly Paine, founders of the Paine Art Center & Arboretum. This exciting
collection exhibits a wide-ranging perspective on mid-19th to early 20th
century American interpretations of the landscape, and it also offers insight
into an American couple's passion for collecting works of art. (left:
Louis William Otte, Purple Sage, 1926, oil on canvas)
This
stylistically eclectic exhibition of forty-seven works celebrates nature
in its varying moods and presents over a century of Realist, Tonalist and
Impressionist paintings and works on paper. Included are examples from the
Hudson River School of landscape painting influenced by the works of James
McDougal Hart, the misty landscapes of George Inness, the sunlit scenes
of Maurice Braun, the visionary canvases of Ralph Albert Blakelock, the
impasto pigments of John Edward Costigan; the Manifest Destiny representations
of Thomas Moran the Tonalism of J. Francis Murphy, the Realism of Winslow
Homer, and the Midwestern images of Grant Wood. (left: George Inness:
A Spring Meadow Near Montclair, 1892, oil on canvas)
Although the Paine Art Center's collection and this exhibition
of American landscapes represents an entire century and several historical
eras, one current flows through all the works -- the ongoing relationship
between nature and the individual artist.
The exhibition is sponsored by AmSouth Bank, J. C. Bradford
& Co. Foundation, Sanderson Farms, Mr. & Mrs. Greg Rustin.
Learn more in Resource Library
Magazine about the Lauren Rogers
Museum of Art.
Please click on thumbnail images bordered by a red line
to see enlargements.
For further biographical information on selected artists
cited above please see America's Distinguished
Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
This page was originally published in Resource
Library Magazine. Please see Resource Library's Overview section for
more information. rev. 3/23/11
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The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is pleased to announce a major exhibition
of American oil paintings, watercolors, etchings and lithographs from the
Paine Art Center & Arboretum in Oskosh, Wisconsin. The exhibit features
highlights of a collection formed in the mid-1920s by Nathan and Jessie
Kimberly Paine, founders of the Paine Art Center & Arboretum. This exciting
collection exhibits a wide-ranging perspective on mid-19th to early 20th
century American interpretations of the landscape, and it also offers insight
into an American couple's passion for collecting works of art. (left:
Louis William Otte, Purple Sage, 1926, oil on canvas)