Will Henry Stevens

JANUARY 21, 2012 - MARCH 25, 2012

THE GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART
The University of Georgia

BOONE AND GEORGE-ANN KNOX GALLERY II

In 2001, The Will Henry Stevens Memorial Trust via Janet Stevens McDowell, the artist’s daughter, presented the Georgia Museum of Art a large gift of diverse work by the American painter. Stevens was born in Vevay, a small Indiana town along the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, run by Frank Duveneck, worked at Rookwood Pottery and attended classes at the Art Students League in New York with American Impressionists William Merritt Chase and Jonas Lie. In 1921, Stevens was offered a teaching position at Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, in New Orleans, La., which provided him with a stable income for the next 27 years. Although he frequently visited New York during the remainder of his career, Stevens emerged as a regional artist whose works were primarily known in the South until the 1940s. During the 1930s and 1940s, Stevens painted in three modes: an American Scene style, an American abstraction that retained elements of naturalism and a geometric abstraction. In many of the images in this special display, Stevens creates work that demonstrates his interest in the harmonious interconnection between the visible planet and the universal world that exists beyond human physical senses.

In House Curator
Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art

Sponsors
The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

Asheville Art Museum
Artist Discussion: Tim Tate, Glass Artist

3:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday, February 19 at 3:00 p.m.

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

The Asheville Art Museum welcomes glass artist Tim Tate, The Asheville Art Museum welcomes glass artist Tim Tate, held in conjunction with two exhibitions The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft , to discuss the changing face of contemporary glass art, new media and his own work.

Tim is the co-founder of the Washington Glass School located near Washington, DC and has shown his work domestically and abroad since the 1990s, including exhibitions at the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and Renwick Gallery, both of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, as well as exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, and numerous commercial galleries in the U.S. and Europe.

Held in conjunction with The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft and Fire on the Mountain: Studio Glass in Western North Carolina.

The New Materiality:
Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft

Friday, November 18, 2011 - Sunday, March 18, 2012
Appleby Foundation Gallery (North Wing Elevator, Level 3)

Nature and the Grand American Vision:
Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters

Nov 19, 2011 - Apr 1, 2012

http://www.columbiamuseum.org/exhibitions/hudsonriver/