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November Issue
2009
Spartanburg
Art Museum in Spartanburg, SC, Offers Works by Georg Arnold-Grabone
Spartanburg
Art Museum in Spartanburg, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Art
and Friendships in Postwar Germany, featuring the works of
Georg Arnold-Grabone (1896-1982) on view through Dec. 5, 2009. Grabone
was known for his talented use of the palette knife and color.
Georg Arnold-Grabone began to paint everything that he saw in nature. He studied under German impressionist, Max Lieberman whom he felt made him into a "true painter". Though Grabone took on a style of his own concentrating on texture and realistic landscapes, he stayed close to the ideals that Lieberman had taught him, focusing on lines and the aesthetics of Lieberman's impressionist style.
Grabone later became General Dwight Eisenhower's painting instructor. One of Grabone's paintings was hung in the oval office during Eisenhower's presidency. It was the President that introduced Grabone to Winston Churchill in the early 1950's. Churchill, who was somewhat of a painter himself, became a fast friend and pupil of Grabone's.
Also on exhibit at SAM is the exhibit, A Life's Passion: Selections from the Heavrin Collection. The collection consists of over 45 pieces including such artists as Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Elliot Dangerfield, and Leon Stacks. The show will be up until Nov. 21, 2009.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
864/582-7616 or visit (www.spartanburgartmuseum.org).
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