New acquisitions 2017
A rotating exhibit of recent new acquisitions will be displayed in HMA's second floor Windows and Objects galleries through the rest of 2017 and continuing until July 15th 2018. Here's a sampling.
Mary Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919)
On November 18th, 2017, at the conclusion of a day of "Light up the Season" pre-holiday events, Evelyn De Morgan's oil painting The Undiscovered Country was unveiled for HMA dignitaries and visitors. The work will be displayed at HMA throughout 2018. (read more)
Ashley D. Pierce (born 1982)
“I pull inspiration for my work from my life. Most of my subjects tend to be self portraits but some are visitors representing an emotion, feeling, vice or real people. I use my art to navigate my life and often find putting the pen to the wood is like ... (more here)
Kari Eig (born 1965)
Eig says that "If my paintings 'speak' to people that view it, and bring good feelings to their hearts, sometimes a smile on their lips, then I am very happy." She was educated as an economist and discovered art by chance when she was nineteen. She (more here)
Joel Sartore (born 1962)
Between September 16, 2007 and February 25, 2018, HMA's exhibition Endangered: a Joel Sartore Retrospective will showcase Sartore's environmental passion with an installation of fifty-five gorgeous examples of his animal photography. This artwork illustrates both the beauty and the tragedy of animal species threatened by extinction. (More here)
Hobson Lafayette Pittman (1899-1972)
Acquiring Walter Griffin's Autumn Poplars in 1951: a story
At HMA's Annual Meeting on June 22, 2017, Walter Griffin's 1911 Autumn Poplars, Boigneville (pictured) was one of three paintings displayed to illustrate how the threads of connections from Paul Whitener still move through HMA's collection, reaching though Paul's own 1959 Autumn Leaves to the (more)
George Pearse Ennis (1884-1936)
"George Pearse Ennis is one of those men, alert and zestful but not officious in their energies who add to the satisfaction we take in living in our own times." Accomplished in many mediums, Ennis turned down an appointment to West Point in favor of becoming an artist.
More works added since summer 2016
Most recently, former Board member and current Honorary Trustee Josephine Hambrick donated to HMA the lovely portrait that Paul Whitener painted of her as a young girl in 1938, and the Acquisitions Committee was delighted to accept this gift. Paul of course was the Museum's founder, and (more)
In honor of Lisë Swensson's retirement
As befits the retirement of the Executive Director on an art museum after a thirteen year tenure, HMA and its Board thanked Lisë at her April 7, 2017 farewell reception through the addition of two new works to the Museum's Permanent Collection. Lisë herself also added to the Permanent Collection, through the donation of folk artist ... (more)