THE POWER OF SHE | A PERMANENT COLLECTION EXHIBITION
January 30 – April 22, 2020
It’s the year 2020, and the Art Museum is celebrating women and all of their accomplishments, particularly in the arts. The Power of She is an exhibition of nearly 40 works of art from the Museum’s permanent collection featuring work created by, thematically representative of and/or commemorating women, femininity and girl power. Objects on display will include a drawing by the late locally renowned artist and humanitarian, Genevieve Willcox Chandler (1890 – 1980), as well as paintings and sculpture by contemporary artists Sigmund Abeles, Alice Ballard, Dixie Dugan, Cassandra Gillens, Jonathan Green, Betsy Havens, Elizabeth Keller, Jennifer Falck Linssen, Kate Hooray Osmond, Betty Anglin Smith and more. Both visually stunning and technically impressive, this body of work is a wonderful way to experience the beauty and power of the collective “SHE.”
the work:
Cassandra Gillen – Cassandra Gillens, Sassy, 2001, acrylic, 20 x 16 inches, Burgess-Dinkelspiel Collection of Southern Art, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum.
Kate Hooray Osmond – Kate Hooray Osmond, Barbapapa, oil and gold leaf, 40 x 60 inches, Gifts & Purchases Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Ellen Orseck – Ellen Orseck, Rising to the Surface, 2014, oil, 32 x 50 inches, Gifts & Purchases Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Scotty Peek – Scotty Peek, Myrtle (210), 2017, pastel, 25 x 25 inches, Gifts & Purchases Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Steven Bleicher – Steven Bleicher, Sweetgrass #2, 2017, graphite, mixed media, 14 x 11 inches, Gifts & Purchases Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Vera Manigault – Vera Manigault, untitled fanner basket, 2017, marsh bulrush (scrirpus cyperinus) and unopened center leaves of the cabbage palm (sabal palmetto), Gifts & Purchases Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Museum purchase.
Jonathan Green – Jonathan Green, It’s Delovely, 1995, acrylic, 7 x 5 inches, Burgess-Dinkelspiel Collection of Southern Art, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum.
artists represented:
Sigmund Abeles
Alice Ballard
Mary Lee Bendolph
Steven Bleicher
Genevieve Willcox Chandler
Dixie Dugan
Linda Fantuzzo
Cassandra Gillens
Jonathan Green
Betsy Havens
Elizabeth Keller
Jennifer Falck Linssen
Carolyn Magyar
Vera Manigault
Corrie Parker McCallum
Ellen Orseck
Kate Hooray Osmond
Scotty Peek
Alex Powers
Priscilla Sage
Ouida Salvo
Betty Anglin Smith
Martha Thomas
Sybil West
Herb Wiegand
