Future Exhibitions
"A Place to Be: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection"
A Place to Be- Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
September 10, 2010 - October 3, 2010
This exhibition of lithographs, paintings, and drawings have been acquired as donations over the past 31 years. Many pieces have never been seen before.
Landscape painting was the first American art to be called a national style. Depicting American topography and vegetation, the descriptive realism and idealized compositions of this type of painting fulfilled a desire that the United States develop an art of its own, distince from that of Europe. Today, "landscape" as a subject in art is fixed in the collective American imagination. One can hardly imagine a museum collection without various examples of both the natural terra firma and the cultivated garden symbolizing the wild and untouched hinterlands or the urban refinement of human civilization.
We exist in a landscape throughout our lives. These works from the MMAA permanent collection illustrate the personal vision and relationship to the land for each artist represented allowing us to imagine ourselves in "a place to be".
This exhibit is dedicated to the late Pat Warner, a museum docent for many years.