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December Issue
2008
Hickory Museum
of Art in Hickory, NC, Offers New Exhibitions
Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, is presenting two new exhibits including: Making Connections: Wilford Conrow and the Hickory Museum of Art, on view through Feb. 22, 2009, in the Shuford Gallery, and The Eclectic Collection of Howard Campbell, on view through Jan. 11, 2009, in the Mezzanine Gallery.
The Making Connections exhibition is filled with works by Wilford Conrow and other artists in HMA's permanent collection. A prominent New York portrait artist, Conrow helped establish the Hickory Museum of Art and its collection. Handwritten correspondence between Conrow and Paul Whitener, the Museum's founder and first director, will also be featured illustrating the growth of their friendship as well as HMA's growth.
Howard Campbell, a member of the North Carolina Folk Art Society, is a lifelong collector and supporter of the arts. Over a period of decades he has amassed an eclectic assortment of folk art: traditional and contemporary; anonymous and famous artists; secular and spiritual themes; functional and purely aesthetic. Recently Campbell allowed a large portion of his collection to be sold at an auction benefiting the American Folk Art Museum in NYC. However, like any passionate collector, he could not give up everything, and with his assistance, the Hickory Museum of Art is pleased to provide a look into the wide and wild world of folk art.
Also on view at the Museum, The Spirit of Black Mountain College, will be on view through Jan. 4, 2009. Make sure to stop by and see works by Robert DeNiro Sr., Buckminster Fuller, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Ben Shahn, Willem and Elaine deKooning, Robert Motherwell, and many more!
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
828/327-8576 or visit (www.HickoryArt.org).
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