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RECENT PAST
EXHIBITIONS:
LANCASTER'S ARCHITECT:
C. EMLEN URBAN
May 2 - June 28, 2009
This exhibit will
examine the work of Lancaster’s first native architect, C.
Emlen Urban (1863-1939). Urban was a prolific architect and
greatly influenced Lancaster’s skyline. Over the fifty years
of his career, Urban’s commissions ranged from schools and
churches, office buildings and industrial buildings, hotels
and private residences to Lancaster’s only skyscraper; the
Greist Building. This exhibit will look at the many extant
Urban buildings still in Lancaster through the eyes of
Lancaster’s contemporary architects. Also accompanying the
exhibit will be a free self-guided walking tour brochure.
ANNUAL
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
March 7 – April 26, 2009
Opening Reception, Friday, March 6, 5-7 p.m.
Every year the Demuth Museum invites local artists to create
a work of art based on a theme derived from the work and
life of Charles Demuth. This year artists are asked to
illustrate a scene or moment from their favorite book. In
Charles Demuth’s illustrations of Emile Zola’s Nana, and
Henry James’ “The Beast in the Jungle”, he does more than
capture the pictorial moment of the text, rather he
encapsulated something of the condition of literature in his
work. We hope our extraordinary local artists will do the
same.
ART IN A BOX
EXHIBITION
February 1-28, 2009
Annual exhibition of artworks by area elementary through
high school students who are participants in the Demuth
Museum’s educational program, Art-in-a-Box. This program
provides teachers with free teaching resources that are
based on themes found in the art work of Charles Demuth.
DAVID BRUMBACH
UNBOUND: PAGES FROM HIS BOOK
November 8, 2008 – January 4, 2009
For the first time, this exhibit brings together the
notebook that David Brumbach made while he was in Lancaster
General for treatment of his diabetes. In addition to
reuniting this unique work of art, the exhibit will feature
a retrospective overview of David's incredibly facile and
unique artworks celebrating what would have been his
sixtieth birthday. Ranging from his photo-realist works to
his personal comic drawings, this gathering of works, many
of which have not been seen in Lancaster for over thirty
years, will offer a new insight into the beloved Lancaster
artist.
OUT OF THE
CHATEAU:
WORKS FROM THE DEMUTH MUSEUM
June 28 - August 31, 2008
Debuting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia
in the fall of 2007, this is the inaugural exhibit of the Demuth Museum's
permanent collection. The Demuth Museum collection consists of over thirty works
by Charles Demuth that span his career, from early childhood drawings to late
floral works. Many of these works were held in private hands in Lancaster and
were seldom or never publicly exhibited prior to joining the Museum's
collection. This exhibit has been seen at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at
George Washington University and now returns to Lancaster for a two-month
showing.
PAST TIME: PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE
April 5 – June 22, 2008
Exhibition features turn of the
century photographs by Ferdinand Demuth and photographic lantern slides by
fellow Lancaster Camera Club member William D. Zell, along with contemporary
Philadelphia artist Wil Lindsay’s digital lantern slide photographs, inspired by
these historical processes.
THE SELF-PORTRAIT AND THE ARTIST
February
2 – March 30, 2008
The Demuth Museum’s Annual
Invitational Exhibition features the work of over 20 local
artists who explored the theme of self-portraiture. Charles
Demuth made several self-portraits throughout his lifetime
which reflect his ever-developing style. Demuth’s first
formal self-portrait, created in 1907, is part of the Demuth
Museum’s permanent collection.
FORBIDDEN
FIRSTS: JAZZ AT MARSHALL'S
February
2 – March 30, 2007
The
Demuth Museum kicks off 2007 with an invitational exhibition featuring the works
of over 25 regional artists. The
theme for this year’s exhibition is based on Demuth’s love of the emerging
art form of Jazz. Demuth frequented many of the early ragtime/jazz clubs in
Manhattan in the early teens. He is
one of the few artists to capture in his artwork this
emerging art form and the scene in which it was created. Artists are
asked to make a work of art based on this theme.
MARY
G. L. HOOD
April
6 - June 30, 2007
A
student of Arthur B. Carles, Mary G. L. Hood attended the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, but for only one semester. She
found the antiquated academic training that was still in place at the Academy
too confining for her idea of modern painting. Thus she joined a group of
students for private study with Arthur Carles after he was dismissed from the
Academy in 1925. Hood moved to New Hope, PA where her work flourished. Her work,
much like Demuth’s, reflects the area surrounding her home integrated with
avant-garde ideas about painting.
MELVILLE
PRICE
July
7 – September 30, 2007
One
of the early Abstract Expressionists, Melville Price began his career as an
artist in the WPA during the depression era. When someone noticed he could paint
he was transferred to the mural division of the WPA – a pivotal moment in his
life. Here he created lasting friendships with artists such as Joseph Stella who
would shape the vision of his art for his entire career. Price gained from the
fertile ground in New York City, which had been prepared by an earlier
generation of artists, such as Demuth, Stella, O’Keeffe, and Marin. This
exhibit will explore the evolution of Price’s style.
CLARA
TICE: A DADA WOMAN
October
6 – November 30, 2007
Clara
Tice, known as the Dada “it” girl, was a graphic designer for the likes of
Vanity
Fair. She wore a bob and short skirts and was a pioneer in fashion.
When the New York City “Vice Squad” shut down an exhibit of her nudes, her
place in history was fixed.
ANNUAL
ART IN A BOX
EXHIBITION
December
3 – December 30, 2007
This
exhibit will feature student works from schools participating in the Demuth's
education program, titled Art in a Box. This program provides teachers
with free teaching resources that are based on themes found in the art works of
Charles Demuth. The students work will show the students’ understanding of
Demuth’s pioneering artwork and how Demuth’s life and work are interpreted
by the aspiring artists.
THE PHILADELPHIA TEN ON THE ROAD: THE
ROTARY EXHIBIT
September 6 - November 2, 2008
Exploring one facet of the
women’s artist group now known as The Philadelphia Ten, this exhibit will look
at their “rotary” exhibitions which traveled to smaller cities on the East Coast
to venues such as the Iris Club, here in Lancaster. These traveling exhibits
helped to promote their desire to bring art education to broader American
audiences and to encourage women to explore their innate artistic talents – not
only as artists, but as consumers with discrimination and taste. Beginning in
Pennsylvania, these exhibits then traveled across the country. This exhibit is a
collaboration with the Wolf Museum of Music and Art.
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