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October 22, 2011 through April 1, 2012
Sponsors
Exhibition Sponsored by Maureen & Gregory Church
Major support from
Carol & Louis Della Penna and Kathy & Ted Fernberger
Additional Support from
Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio
Publication support provided by
Virginia B. and William D. Williams Endowment Fund
Bucks County's legacy of excellence in the art of canvas and brush is explored
in this major exhibition organized by the Michener Art Museum. From the renowned
19th-century painters Edward Hicks and Martin Johnson Heade, to the gifted masters
of landscape painting in the first half of the twentieth century, to the lively
and inventive New Hope modernists, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's
Fertile Ground will feature more than 200 works of art by Bucks County's
best-known historic artists.
Drawn from the Philadelphia area's most prestigious
private and institutional collections, the exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to view some of the finest paintings by these beloved artists, work
that is only rarely made available to the general public. The exhibit will focus
particularly on Bucks County's landscape tradition as embodied in the canvases of
Redfield, Garber, Spencer, Coppedge, and their many friends and colleagues who
were part of the New Hope art colony.
This unprecedented exhibit will open its doors as the seventh major construction
project in the Michener's 23-year history moves toward completion. Scheduled to open
in the spring of 2012, the Edgar N. Putman Event Pavilion will be a state-of-the-art
lecture and event center. Together, the two projects symbolize the Michener's own
legacy of excellence, as the museum has grown from a small regional art center into
a nationally-known institutional leader in the Delaware Valley.
Images, clockwise from upper left:
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Tanis, 1915, oil on canvas,
W. 46 1/4 x H. 60 inches, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with funds
contributed by Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest, 2011....
Charles Rosen (1878-1950), The Frozen River, n.d., oil on canvas,
H. 42 x W. 52 inches, Collection of Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest...
Edward Redfield (1869-1965), The Burning of Center Bridge, 1923, oil on canvas,
H. 50 1/4 x W. 56 1/4 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum. Acquired with
funds secured by State Senator Joe Conti, and gifts from Joseph and Anne Gardocki and the
Laurent Redfield family.
Fern Coppedge (1883-1951), Red Sails in the Sunset, n.d., oil on canvas,
H. 38 x W. 40 inches, Collection of Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest...
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