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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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, PurpleHeart 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.

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.

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.

To get a hands-on look at the Audubon collection, please speak with a concierge to schedule a time.

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.

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.

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.