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FALL 2013 In this issue: From the Director • p2
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Fall Harvest • p4
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Monday
American Impressionists Lecture • p5
Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Art á Loan • p6
Friday
10am–5pm
Classes • p8
Saturday
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Sunday
Impressionism arrives at the Ella
(gift shop closes at 4:30pm)
Workshops • p9 Members • p10
Jackson Civic Art Association, ongoing
Museum Exhibit Hallway
Clocks and walking sticks from the collection of Allen Spiess Jr.
October – May 2014
Never Enough Time Clock Gallery
The gallery highlights paintings, sculptures and wood carvings from the collection of Andy and Sandy Andrews.
October – May 2014
The Andrews Gallery of Wildlife Art
Clothing and accessories from the Museum’s collection, dating from the 1880s to 1920.
Lasting Impressions: Fashionistas of the Impressionist Era September 10 – January 4, 2014
Pyron Gallery
From the Reading Public Museum in Reading Pennsylvania, this exhibit features 55 pieces, including landscape, portrait, and still life paintings.
American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony October 26 – January 11, 2014
The show will feature artwork of the Ella’s staff, students, faculty, members and volunteers, and will give visitors the chance to see the talent and creativity of our Museum family.
Ella’s Community Art Exhibit September 7 – October 19
Emmet Gallery
From the Reading Public Museum in Reading Pennsylvania, this exhibit features 55 pieces, including landscape, portrait, and still life paintings.
American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony October 26 – January 11, 2014
The seventh annual Art á Loan exhibit will feature 55 pieces of artwork from kindergarten through twelfth grade students in Jackson County.
Hurst Gallery
Art á Loan September 21 – October 17
Exhibitions
Contributions • p11
From the Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, this exhibit features 55 pieces, including lyrical landscapes, penetrating portraits, and remarkable still life painting. These pieces document an important moment in the history of American art, comprising oil paintings and works of art on paper dating from the golden age of American Impressionism, the 1880s through the 1930s. The exhibit is arranged according to the artists’ colonies that played a critical role in the development of American Impressionism around the turn of the century. Within each of these colonies, artists were able to teach, collaborate and escape the daily rigors of their city studios. Often located in scenic locations within striking distance of major cities, artists’ colonies served up steady
On Grand River, Frank Weston Benson
American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony opens in the Hurst and Emmet galleries on October 26 and continues through January 11, 2014. doses of natural beauty and provided ample subject matter. “The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see such a wide variety of approaches to impressionism in America,” said Scott Schweigert, Reading Public Museum’s Curator of Art and Civilization. “I think visitors will be delightfully surprised by the tremendous scope and depth of the Museum’s collection in this area. While the exhibition includes some ‘big name’ artists, there are (continued on page 2)
special thanks for exhibit support to