Artist to Lead Landscape Painting Workshop at LVC

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ANNVILLE, PA (02/21/2011)(readMedia)-- Local artist Michael Allen will lead a hands-on workshop on traditional landscape painting in conjunction with Visions of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Women Landscape Artists exhibit on display at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College. Allen's workshop is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. in Painting Studio 006 of Lynch Memorial Hall.

Pre-registration is required for participants and costs $60 for public admission and $10 for LVC student admission.

Allen's paintings and drawings have been included in numerous group and invitational exhibitions including the Mid-Atlantic traveling exhibition Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 Years of Paintings from American Masters, Art of the Gettysburg Review: Representation in Contemporary American Painting at Gettysburg College, and Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary Realism at the Susquehanna Art Museum. His work has been featured in The Gettysburg Review, Art&Antiques Magazine, Art Calendar, New American Paintings, and International Artist Magazine.

He received his MFA from the University of Delaware and his BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Allen has taught drawing and painting at the University of Delaware, Elizabethtown College, Harrisburg Area Community College, and the Art Association of Harrisburg.

Visions of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Women Landscape Artists is on display from through Mar. 27, 2011. Landscape paintings from this era were traditionally created by men, but many women, trained by their artist fathers, husbands, or brothers, devoted their artistic careers to the painting and etching of the American outdoors. The exhibit focuses on landscape painting as a genre for women artists and showcases a diverse group of female painters.

The exhibition highlights a distinct group of female painters, beginning with those associated with the Hudson River School, and will trace the progression of this important genre through the early twentieth century, until World War I. The works of Sarah Cole, Mary Nimmo Moran, Minerva Chapman, Lilla Cabot Perry, M. Josephine Walters, Charlotte Buell Coman, Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, Anna Richards Brewster, and others, will be featured. Several of the artists in this exhibition move away stylistically from the pastoral grandeur of the Hudson River School to landscapes that feature tonalist and impressionist characteristics of late nineteenth-century landscape painting.

Gallery hours are Wednesdays from 5–8 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays from 1–4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; and by appointment for groups. Schools and other organizations are encouraged to contact the Gallery for a guided visit. For further information, please contact gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.