ANNVILLE, PA (01/05/2011)(readMedia)--

Women Landscape Artists Exhibit to Open at LVC's Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 21, from 5–7 p.m.

Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 17, 5 p.m.

Workshop: Saturday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Visions of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Women Landscape Artists will be on display at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College from Jan. 21 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. Visions of Nature focuses on landscape painting as a genre for women artists and showcases a diverse group of female painters.

The exhibition will highlight 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.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Dr. Robin Veder, associate professor of humanities and art history/visual culture at Penn State Harrisburg, will discuss aspects of the exhibit on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 5 p.m. in the Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery. The lecture, titled "American Landscape Traditions from Pastoralism to Impressionism," is free and open to the public. Veder will discuss the stylistic conventions and challenges seen in the art of the best-known nineteenth-century American landscape painters, including Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Thomas Moran, who were the relatives and models for the women painters featured in Visions of Nature.

Local artist Michael Allen will lead a hands-on workshop on traditional landscape painting using oil paints on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Painting Studio 006 of Lynch Memorial Hall. The workshop will include a basic landscape painting demonstration and information on nineteenth-century, as well as contemporary methods of landscape painting. Preregistration is required. Please contact the gallery for more information.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, Jan. 21, from 5–7 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. 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.

Posted Wednesday January 05, 2011 at 11:29 am by Lebanon Valley College
Last Updated Wednesday January 19, 2011 at 11:29 am