December 2011

Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, Offers Works by Amy Horton and Works from Hungarian Paintings Collection

Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, is presenting several exhibits including: Paintings and Drawings by Amy Horton, on view in the Martha Chapman Gallery through Dec. 15, 2011, and The Teszler Collection of Hungarian Paintings, on view in The Sandor Teszler Library Gallery through Dec. 20, 2011.

Amy Horton is the 2011 winner of the Thomas Daniel Whetsell Fellow Memorial Fellowship for the Visual Arts. The Whetsell Fellowship enables a Wofford College student to study in the summer some aspect of the visual arts, with the study leading to an exhibition on the campus school year.

Horton spent the summer working with Spartanburg artist Isabel Forbes to study oil painting. She spent the spring semester of 2011 studying in Barcelona, Spain, and draws many of her images from that experience.

In the nineteenth century a number of Hungarian artists traveled to western Europe to study their craft, where several came under the influence of the Barbizon school. This school’s painters were influenced by the naturalist movement of the early part of the century, and especially by the impressionists. Returning to their native country, the Hungarian artists founded a summer paining school at Nagybana, creating works which echoed the influences and techniques learned in western Europe. Their style was at first close to impressionism and in the period leading to 1902 they created the masterpieces of Hungarian Impressionism which are more oriented toward objects in the landscape rather than atmospheric effect. The forms are more tangible, more grounded, at times even somber or contemplative.

The Teszler Collection was assembled in Hungary before World War II and in the United States after the war. In 1991 Sandor Teszler presented his collection to the Library named in his honor. In recent years the original collection has been augmented by gifts of paintings from the Robicsek family and others.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call 864/597-4300.

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