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April Issue 2007
Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, Features Historical Exhibition
Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, is proud to present The Best of North Carolina, an annual exhibition that surveys artwork by important artists of the past two centuries who have lived and/or worked in the state of North Carolina. The exhibit will be on view through May 8, 2007.
Claude Howell ------------------------------ George Bireline
History has shown that North Carolina has been a real magnet for artists working in all styles and mediums. The varied landscape has provided immense inspiration. Classical landscape painters such as William Lester Stevens and Eliot Clark found a constant source of subject matter in the Blue Ridge Mountains as did the pioneering female photographer Bayard Wootten. Coastal life was captured beautifully in the angular and linear works of Claude Howell and Joe Cox. Cox, like fellow modernists George Bireline, Robert Broderson and Roy Gussow, found a supportive environment in the state's Universities and Colleges where each made a major contribution both as artist and as educator.
Francis Speight, Sarah Blakelsee and Mabel Pugh all studied art at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and spent major portions of their careers out of state in large metropolitan cities like Philadelphia and New York. However, like fellow North Carolinians Hobson Pittman and Philip Moose, both who traveled extensively worldwide, they never lost ties with their North Carolina roots. Etchings by Louis Orr, who spent much of his career in Paris, will hang alongside the spiritually inspired artwork of self-taught artist Minnie Evans.
The above mentioned artists are just a selection of those who's work will be on display in this exhibit. All of these artists have been highly collected by museums across the country and short biographies can be found on our website. The artworks are all from private collections and have rarely been shown publicly before now. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to learn about the history of art in North Carolina and to add pieces of artistic and historic importance to your own private collections.
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Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/828-3165 or visit (www.galleryc.net).
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