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Exhibitions
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Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973), New Hope
Millworkers' Cottage, 1937, oil on canvas, H. 32 x W. 40 inches, Bucks County
Intermediate Unit #22 |
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The inaugural exhibition at New Hope will be Coming Home: Impressionism and
Modernism in the New Hope Arts Community, a survey of works by the
impressionists and modernists who settled in the New Hope area during the early
twentieth century, establishing the town's reputation as a significant American art
colony. Coming Home will feature paintings by leading New Hope area artists including
Edward Redfield, William Lathrop, Daniel Garber, Walter Schofield, George Sotter,
Robert Spencer, Fern Coppedge, Charles Rosen, Harry Leith-Ross, C. F. Ramsey,
Charles Evans, R.A.D. Miller, Lloyd Ney and many others. Sponsored by Alderfer's
Fine Art & Antiques, Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Ingham Springs Antiques &
Fine Art/Richard & Alyce Sandor, Jim's Antiques Fine Art Gallery and Plymouth Meeting
Gallery, the exhibition will run through April 21, 2004. "We are delighted to be
bringing these important works back to the community where they were
created," Curator of Collections Constance Kimmerle says. "This
exhibition, which spans several decades and various artistic styles, was an opportunity
for us to highlight the richness of the area's artistic heritage."
Charles Rosen (1878-1950), The Roundhouse, Kingston, New York, 1927, oil on canvas, H
29.5 x W. 39.5 inches, private collection | |
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Accompanying this inaugural show will be Drawing Home: Works on Paper, a
special exhibition of works by many of the same artists, organized by Associate
Curator of Exhibitions Erika Jaeger-Smith. Sponsored by StayinFront, Inc., the show
will include 12 works, and will be on display through February 2004. "These
drawings were created as studies for oil paintings, sketchbook notations, whimsical
postcards sent to friends, or as finished works of art in themselves," Smith
says. Among the works on paper are landscapes by consummate draftsman and
longtime teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Daniel
Garber; exquisitely detailed conte crayon drawings by Harry Leith-Ross; an animated
map of New Hope from the 1950s by Charles Ward; postcards sent from abroad by
John Folinsbee; a study for an oil painting by Robert Spencer; sketchbook pages by
William Lathrop; and more abstract works by Paul Keene and Elsie Driggs.
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R.A.D. Miller (1905-1966), Lace Factory; 1935, oil on canvas, H. 21 x W. 28 inches, In Trust to the James A. Michener Art Museum |
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Also on display at the Museum's New Hope location will be a longtime favorite from the
Doylestown site, Creative Bucks County: A
Celebration of Art and Artists. This interactive, multimedia exhibition highlights the
artistic achievements of 12 internationally known artists from Bucks County, including
Pearl S. Buck, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Parker and S.J. Perelman.
Other special features of the Museum in New Hope will include
Study for New London Facets, a large, abstract post office mural
created by New Hope artist Lloyd Raymond Ney under the auspices of the U.S.
Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture in 1940.
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