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January Issue
2010
Ackland Art
Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, Offers Two New Exhibitions
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present two new exhibitions including: Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Jacob Lawrence and The Legend of John Brown, both on view at the Ackland Art Museum from Jan. 15 through May 9, 2010.
Felrath Hines
Color Balance includes fourteen major paintings and four drawings from the collections of the Ackland Art Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum. Spanning the 1960s to Hines' death in 1993, the paintings are recent gifts to the three museums from the artist's widow. The exhibition premieres at the Ackland before traveling to the other participating museums in 2010-2011.
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence and The Legend of John Brown includes Lawrence's famous 1977 suite of twenty two screen prints that chronicle the life of the famous and controversial nineteenth-century abolitionist. Related materials and programs will draw on the expertise of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members in Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Art, History, and other departments to investigate Lawrence's print series.
Together, the exhibitions show two very different approaches to art making by artists of roughly similar ages and backgrounds. Lawrence (1917 - 2000) is renowned for his figurative paintings about the lives of significant African Americans, frequently depicting important historical epochs. Hines, by contrast (1913-1993) is known for his large scale, abstract paintings combining simple geometric forms and radiant colors. While Lawrence achieved great fame for his art during his lifetime, Hines was less well known. No less prolific, his full-time work was as an art conservator, including positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and as Georgia O'Keefe's personal conservator.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
919/843-3675 or visit (www.ackland.org).
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