Dustin Yellin Psychogeography #44
A Message From The Hardy Family The idea of creating an art legacy has never been the goal of the Hardy Family Art Collection; rather, we created a living, breathing, dynamic assembly of art, sculpture, and objects which reflect our family’s passions, interests, and travels. It is personal. It is us. Nestled throughout Nemacolin’s property, you’ll find paintings collected from our travels, sculptures that spoke to us — sometimes making us laugh, sometimes making us cry — and decorative objects reflecting our family’s penchant for humor, wit, and whimsy. Woven among our collected treasures, guests will discover sentimental nods to family life, nostalgic collectibles from another era, artfully crafted Tiffany lamps, and colorful Calders. Sharing these collected things brings us great joy, and we love to see our guests snapping photos around a favorite work of art and creating cherished memories of their own. We hope you’ll enjoy the Hardy Family Art Collection as much as we enjoy bringing the collection to life! Warmly,
Hardy Family Art Collection Since the early 80s, the Hardy family has been adding regularly to their art collection. Now, a walk around Nemacolin has become a casual study in over 1000 fine paintings, sculptures, antiques, glassworks, cars, planes, and historical artifacts. Among others from around the world, some of the biggest inspiration behind the pieces comes from the galleries from which the family has collected them. Visit the Nemacolin Gallery, walk along the paths on the grounds, take an art tour through the halls, and enjoy all the artistic sights that Nemacolin and the Hardy Family Art Collection have to offer.
Alan Cottrill
Nothing is Impossible
Fernando Botero Little Bird
Considered one of the most recognized living artists from Latin America, Fernando Botero is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. The most iconic of the five Botero pieces within the Hardy Family Art Collection is Little Bird, the large whimsical bird adorning The Chateau fountain.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Jane Avril before the addition of Jardin de Paris A painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, Toulouse-Lautrec is known as one of the greatest artists of the Post-Impressionist period. He excelled at capturing people in their working environment, with the color and the movement of the gaudy nightlife present, but the glamour stripped away. The Hardy Family Art Collection has six original Toulouse-Lautrec lithographs, all of which are housed in the Lautrec Bistro.
Dustin Yellin Psychogeography #44
Featured on the cover, Dustin Yellin is an American contemporary artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He’s best known for his sculptural paintings using multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery creating a single, intricate, three-dimensional collage.
Nemacolin Gallery
The Nemacolin Gallery represents the Hardy family’s commitment and passion for fine art. Each year, Nemacolin has a series of art exhibitions in its very own Nemacolin Gallery. The Nemacolin Gallery is housed in the main corridor of The Chateau, and it is the perfect location for exposing our guests to current trends in art, as well as promoting art sales for featured artists. Each quarter showcases hand-selected artists, and throughout each show’s duration, weekly tours are offered. Many of the pieces displayed in the Nemacolin Gallery are for purchase. Purchases can be made through The Chateau Signature Shops or through the Front Desk after hours. For information about upcoming exhibitions and artists, please visit www.nemacolin.com.
Laurel Lane Gallery
Laurel Lane Gallery features original works by current artists. This contemporary space, located in the vicinity of the Laurel Lane Shops, has a range of artwork ranging in style from bright, colorful florals to bold, eclectic abstracts.
Works pictured above by artist Mia Tarducci
Infused with elegance and an ironic wit, Mauro Perucchetti addresses some of the most pressing and difficult issues in today’s society in a way that’s subtle and accessible without being trite, shocking, or obscure. Here, Purple Heart depicts the most fragile and vulnerable human element. The sculpture in the form of a heart grenade, references the heart’s explosive and volatile nature.
Mauro Perucchetti Purple Heart
Alexander Calder La lune et las fesses
The Hardy family’s Calder collection is recognized by the Calder Foundation and contains three original gouache on paper works from the early 70s and a small-scale mobile, dated 1976. Alexander Calder is known as the originator of the mobile, a moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. His kinetic sculptures are regarded as being among the earliest manifestations of an art that consciously departs from the traditional notion of art work as a static object, and he integrated the ideas of gesture and movement as aesthetic factors.
Lou Michaels was born in 1959, and was raised in a suburb outside the epicenter of the automotive industry in Detroit, Michigan. He spent his youth immersed in industrial creativity. In his formative years, he apprenticed under gifted ceramicist and sculptor George Tudzarov. Michaels was influenced by Tudzarov’s artistic freedom and ability to synthesize artistic mediums. His latest work uses vintage images, sculpture, and metal to create a cohesive, three-dimensional, nostalgic landscape. Michaels’ most famous piece is titled Lunchtime Atop the Rockefeller Center or Lunchtime On A Skyscraper.
Lou Michaels Lunchtime Atop the Rockefeller Center
John James Audubon was the country’s dominant wildlife artist for nearly half a century. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard against which 20th- and 21st-century bird artists are measured. In 1819, Audubon set off on his epic quest to depict America’s avifauna. With nothing but his gun, artist’s materials, and a young assistant, he would amass an impressive portfolio. In 1826, he sailed with his partly finished collection to England. The American Woodsman was an overnight success. His life-size, highly dramatic bird portraits, along with his embellished descriptions of wilderness life, hit just the right note at the height of the Romantic era.
John James Audubon Birds of America
Louis Comfort Tiffany Wisteria
Louis Comfort Tiffany, one of the most creative and prolific designers of the late 19th century, declared that his lifelong goal was “the pursuit of beauty.” He was an American painter, craftsman, philanthropist, decorator, and designer who was internationally recognized as one of the greatest forces of the Art Nouveau style. Tiffany’s experiments with stained glass began in 1875. By the 1890s, he was a leading glass producer. The Wisteria lamp is one of the most iconic lamp designs by Tiffany. Its complex pattern is comprised of nearly 2,000 pieces of glass that had to be individually selected and cut. The three-panel window comes from the August H. Albert residence in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1902, the window was installed in the Baltimore home by Waldo Newcomber but was subsequently auctioned through Sotheby’s NY in 1990, where the Hardy family acquired it for $800,000.
Louis Comfort Tiffany Wisteria Window Triptych
Born in New York City in 1894, Norman Rockwell always wanted to be an artist, and at 14, he enrolled in his first art classes at The New York School of Art. At age 21, Rockwell’s family moved to New Rochelle, New York, and produced work for such magazines as Life, Literary Digest, and Country Gentleman. At 22, he painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next 47 years, another 321 Rockwell covers would appear on the cover of the Post. The 1930s and 1940s are considered to be the most fruitful decades of Rockwell’s career. He moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939, where he began to create his works that reflected small-town American life. The 60s included many changes for Rockwell. He ended his 47-year association with The Saturday Evening Post and began to work for Look magazine. During the next 10 years with Look, Rockwell illustrated some of his deepest concerns and interests, including civil rights, America’s war on poverty, and the exploration of space. Growing older, Rockwell established a trust to preserve his artistic legacy, as well as arranged to have his studio and its contents added to that same trust — now the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Norman Rockwell After Prom
Edward Dwight, Jr. Charlie Parker Edward “Ed” Joseph Dwight, Jr. has enjoyed two distinctly different career paths. His first career was as a highly decorated aeronautical engineer; his second career continues today as a celebrated sculpture artist. Dwight is the definition of a Renaissance Man. With his father’s encouragement, he first pursued an aeronautical engineering degree where he later served as an Air Force fighter and test pilot. He was selected by President J. F. Kennedy to become America’s first African American astronaut candidate. Successful with all the ventures which illuminated his resume, Ed Dwight turned his attention to working in fine art. With almost no official art training, Dwight earned a commission for his first sculpture. During his mid-forties, he rocketed to the top as one of America’s most acclaimed artists. He has created sculptures, large-scale memorials, and public art projects typically depicting African American history. Following this, he initiated another bronze series Jazz: An American Art Form. Dwight’s new collection focused on the roots of Jazz in African Tribal culture. The Hardy Collection houses twelve Ed Dwight sculptures; nine of which are from the Jazz: An American Art Form series. The remaining three are a tribute to the Maasai Women of Africa.
Outdoor Sculptures In 2017, the Hardy family increased their art collection by almost 15%. Many of the pieces added were sculptures that you can now view throughout the entirety of Nemacolin’s property. From the abstract and vibrant to the Native American influences of the pieces collected in Santa Fe, the family’s sculpture collection truly embodies the Hardy’s eclectic interest in the arts.
Bruno Catalano created an extraordinary series of eye-catching bronze sculptures called The Travelers depicting realistic human workers with parts of their bodies missing. The missing parts of the sculptures allow room for the imagination — are they missing something, or is it something that these “travelers” have simply left behind? Appearing to stand on very little support, they feel ethereal and surreal.
Bruno Catalano J’attends
William Barrett Action Abstraction
Barrett’s sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze, or steel combine abstract and representational elements and are celebrated for interplay between positive and negative space and balance. His work is coupled with a voluminous use of materials in graceful motion.
Dewane Hughes was born in Ames Iowa, in 1969. He graduated from Buena Vista College in 1992, with an emphasis in sculpture and received his MFA from Montana State University in 1996. Since 1996, Dewane has been the sculpture lab technician at the University of Iowa where he built the bronze casting foundry, as well as assistant professor at Graceland University and Missouri Southern State University. Dewane is currently an associate professor of sculpture at the University of Texas at Tyler. He maintains a home and studio in the woods south of Troup, Texas, with his wife, Alexis; son, Frankie; and his three dogs.
Dewane Hughes High Plains Doo-Dah
Glenna Goodacre He Is, They Are
He Is, They Are is a truly humbling piece about the hardships the Native Americans faced. The figure’s hands are literally “tied” as he contemplates the struggles of his people. The Hardy family’s Goodacre piece He Is, They Are is number 5/15 with another in the edition belonging to the private collection of Michael Jackson’s estate. Glenna Goodacre is a sculptor best known for designing the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000, as well as the Vietnam Women’s Memorial located in Washington, D.C. Featuring lively expressions and textures, Goodacre’s art appears in public, private, municipal, and museum collections throughout the U.S. Glenna Goodacre retired from sculpting in 2016, and passed away in 2020.
Wendy Taylor Square Piece
Wendy Taylor was one of the first artists of her generation to “take art out of the galleries and into the streets.” She has an impressive range of sitespecific sculptures, one of which is Nemacolin’s
Square Piece. The Square Piece demonstrates the element of continuity in Taylor’s career, and stands as a personal monument, commemorating the difficulties that she had to overcome of being a woman sculptor in a modern, industrial democracy. Passionately using art as a form of communication, Taylor’s fine examples of industrial craft are built to last and often symbolize the place in which the sculptures stand.
Shell Collection
Donated by Donald J. Conte, the sampling of shells in this collection reflects the diversity of mollusks. Mollusks have inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years and have diversified into an estimated 85,000 species. The collection contains specimens of four classes of mollusks: Gastropods, Bivalves, Scaphopods, and Cephalopods.
Reflections
Situated at one of the highest points of the resort, Reflections is filled with contemporary artwork and presents scenic views of the property and beyond. Featuring artists such as Dustin Yellin, Mia Tarducci, Danny Perkins, Jim Rennert, Allen Jones, Miguel Edwards, Emily Mason, Henry Jackson, Matthew Curtis, Francis Celentano, and Alan Cottrill, Reflections hosts select art classes as well as various wellness classes for the mind, body, and spirit.
Pride & Joy Airplane Hangar Located at the end of Nemacolin’s airstrip, the hangar is open for public and private events. View a rare and fully restored 1931 PA-8 Pitcairn Super Mailwing once owned by Hollywood icon Steve McQueen, or the fully restored 1938 DH87B de Havilland Hornet Moth that is one of only twelve left in the world today.
Auto Toy Store Museum
“Those who believe a vehicle is simply for transporting oneself from point A to point B have missed the point altogether. Take classic cars. When you own an automobile with heritage of unchallenged excellence and a lineage of thoroughbred performance, you own more than a conveyance. You own a slice of automotive history.” – Joseph Hardy
The Woodlands Auto Toy Store features a wide variety of rare and antique automobiles. Among others, the collection includes a 1913 Ford Model T Speedster, 1950 Captain America Bike, 1989 Rolls Royce Silver Spur II, and a 1995 Bentley Continental Convertible.
Tours ART TOUR
A walk around Nemacolin is quite simply a study in world-renowned art. From the walls to the grounds, art of various mediums—paintings, sculptures, furniture, glasswork and historical artifacts—are showcased for guest enjoyment. Consisting of over 1,000 individual pieces, the multi-million dollar Hardy Family Art Collection graces all aspects of the resort.
CURATOR An in-depth tour begins with a glass of wine while we share with you the history of the Hardy Family Art Collection. You will be escorted through the resort to view some of Nemacolin’s hidden art gems.
SCULPTURE This tour highlights many of Nemacolin’s sculptures throughout the property. The tour culminates at Reflections, where contemporary paintings and sculptures are displayed.
FALLING ROCK TOUR Experience architectural excellence reimagined! Meeting at Falling Rock, this guided tour will showcase the architectural similarities between Nemacolin’s own Falling Rock boutique hotel and the local history and attraction of Fallingwater — a home built by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Nemacolin Art Department is pleased to assist groups or individuals with customized tours to see even more of the Hardy Family Art Collection. Please see the Nemacoln website or contact art.department@nemacolin.com for more information.
Art Studio From hands-on crafting and painting on canvas to seasonal art projects, there is an art activity for everyone in the family. Guests can attend an art class to try something new, or go during open studio to relax, destress, and experiment at their own pace, or participate in guided art activities led by Nemacolin’s art instructor. For more detailed descriptions and times, please speak with a concierge, or visit nemacolin.com
Teambuilding & Events Create a fun, seasonal image with your group, or work together to create colorful paintings on pre-drawn canvases. When combined, these collaborative pieces of art form beautiful murals. Groups can choose from famous works of art or their own company logo. Fun and Festive!
Artist in Residence Experience art from the bare-bone beginning to the flourishing, final masterpiece! Shadow the process of brush-to-canvas, scissor-to-paper and wood-to-lathe with our Artist in Residence program. Observe as artists work together creating their next element of expression. The program offers support from the resort, inspiration from our award-winning atmosphere, and opportunity for artists to collaborate in oncein-a-lifetime experiences. Artists are provided with a studio that is accessible to guests for holding weekly meet-and-greet receptions. As their residency concludes, the artists will give a final exchange and unveil their legacy masterpiece. We invite you to engage with the artists and absorb their techniques in a unique experience.
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