Overview
This exhibition of works on paper from the MMFA collection features landscape imagery in a variety of media, and an equally diverse range of styles. Since human’s first habituated the earth, landscapes have served as artistic inspiration; and American artists have utilized their native landscapes as inspiration for as long as our country has hosted human habitation. These artists capture the environment around them but in their own surprising ways. Using unusual points of view, materials, and compositions, these artists capture the enlivenment around them in their own surprising ways. This exhibition will feature works on paper in a variety of media such as prints, photography and mixed media.
Above: Doel Reed (American, 1894–1985), Penitent Cemetery, 1950, aquatint on paper, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Anonymous gift, 1960.78
A timely and thoughtful meditation on the land that has shaped and continues to be shaped by the American experience.
Organizer
Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.
Exhibition Sponsors
Annual support for exhibitions is made possible by the following sponsors and grantors:
Lead Sponsors and Grantors: Alabama State Council on the Arts, Art Bridges Foundation, Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, Mr. and Mrs. Barrie H. Harmon, Ill, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC, Lamar Advertising of Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Lowder, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, and Mrs. Helen Till
Sponsors: Mr. Owen Aronov, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Runkle, Sabel Steel, The S. Adam Schloss Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, III, Laurie J. Weil, D.V.M. and Dr. Tommy Wool, and Ms. Helen Crump Wells
Co-sponsors: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Adams, Alabama Trucking Association, AmeriFirst Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Campbell II, CAPTRUST, Dr. Robert Combs, Crum Family Charitable Foundation, Mrs. Camille Elebash-Hill, Harmon Dennis Bradshaw, Inc., Mrs. Ann Hubbert, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ives, Mr. and Mrs. L. Daniel Morris, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mussafer, Dr. Alfred J. Newman, Jr., River Bank & Trust, Russell Construction of Alabama, Inc., Ms. Micki Beth Stiller, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Taylor, and Warren Averett, LLC.
Special thanks to the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
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