Pulling into The Station…
The Station Gallery has a new show of new paintings by Lynne Lockhart and Kirk McBride. Both paint in oil, gathering inspiration from their travels and from their home on the Eastern Shore. Meet the artists during the opening reception June 1. The exhibition runs through June 30. 654-8638, stationgallery.net
Down at the Beach
Artwork from this year’s Plein Air Coastal Delaware Event will be on exhibit and for sale in the Homestead Gallery of Rehoboth Art League, even as the 39th Annual Members Fine Craft Exhibit is shown in the Cockran and Tubbs Gallery. That’s a lot of good art. Hit the opening reception June 1. Both shows will run through June 20. 227-8408, rehobothartleague.org
Great Exhibitions Continue
Get to The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover for “Jewels of the Generations: The Legacy of Loockerman and Bradford Family of Dover.” The exhibition displays early American clothing, Victorian jewelry, European and Asian ceramics, American and European silver, American and European portraits, and Delaware- and Philadelphia-made furniture as collected by Vincent Loockerman and his descendants, the Bradfords. When Loockerman died in 1785 he was probably Dover’s largest collector of Delaware- and Philadelphia-made furniture. For the past 200 years, his family has lived with those pieces while adding their own. Biggs Museum founder Sewell C. Biggs was an admirer of Loockerman’s collection, hence the exhibition and related events. See it through June 24. Also at The Biggs, “Picturing WWI: The American Illustration Collection of the Delaware National Guard,” shows works by local illustrators such as Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) and Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887-1962) as created for magazines such as Ladies Home Journal to depict key events of the war. It’s a rare opportunity to view the collection of the Delaware National Guard. Visit through June 24. 674-2111, biggsmuseum.org
Cheers to Winterthur for “Uncorked! Wine, Objects & Tradition,” a celebration of 300 objects and imagery created in response to our love of wine. “Uncorked!” shows how wine was marketed and consumed in America and Britain from the 1600s through the 1800s. See unique wine bottles, decanters and cellarettes, lead figures of Bacchus, “Champagne Charlie” song sheets, advertisements and more. The exhibition will be on view through January 6. winterthur.org/uncorked
“American Masters Art of the 19th and 20th centuries” at Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville shows works by contemporaries of the Wyeth family. You’ll see works by N.C., American Impressionists Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twatchtman, Ashcan School artists Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn and William Glackens, and masters John Singer Sargent and Thomas Anschutz. There’s more. See it through June 2. 652-0271, somervillemanning.com
We’re all intimately familiar with the life and work of illustrator Howard Pyle, but probably not as well acquainted with the oeuvre of his younger sister. Learn more in “Tales of Folk and Fairies: The Life and Work of Katharine Pyle,” on view at Delaware Art Museum until September 9. Katharine Pyle became one of the most prolific woman writers and illustrators of her day, even if she did spend a good portion of her career working in the shadow of her famous brother. Her poems were published in the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Bazaar while she was still a girl, before she went on to study art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Drexel Institute as a prelude to working as an illustrator. Her output includes 50 books, most famously Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty, ” which she illustrated in her own, inimitable style. See more now. You’ll be charmed. 571-9590, delart.org
On Stage
Who can resist this? In “The Skin of Our Teeth,” the inventor of the wheel, his family and his saucy maid face calamity after calamity—war, flood, famine, climate change and economic collapse—yet somehow manage to pull through. Yes, there is hope. This uproarious Pulitzer winner even offers wooly mammoth. Need we say more? Catch the UD’s Resident Ensemble Players production at Roselle Center for the Arts in Newark through July 5. 831-2204, rep.udel.edu
Re-living Dover Days Through Art
Who painted during the Dover Days Plein Air Paint Out on May 6? Find out, and see their work, during a special exhibition at Dover Art League June 1. The 14 artists are Dianne Bauer, Harrington; Maria Liberto Bessette, Dover; N. Taylor Collins, Dover; Jan Crumpley, Dover; Donna Hansen, Dover; Leah Kinder, Felton; L.D. Kinder, Felton; Claire Lewandowski, Magnolia, Rick Schuman, Hartly; Letitia Schuman, Hartly; Diane Laird, Middletown; Brandon Schaefer, Felton; Dennis Young, New Castle; and Robbin Hare, Dover. All painted outdoors during Dover Days May 6. The reception, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., means light refreshments and a chance to meet the artists, free of charge. 734-8511
Big News
The Delaware Art Museum has announced 98 works of art from 96 regional artists have been selected for its Centennial Juried Exhibition Oct. 20-Jan. 13, 2013. The exhibition commemorates the museum’s 100th anniversary year. “The 1,300 artworks submitted covered a wide range of media, styles, and abilities,” says guest juror John B. Ravenal, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. “I accepted around one-fifth of the applicants and, for the most part, chose one work from each. I was looking for quality, regardless of the type or approach of the work, thus the selection is eclectic. What ties it together is that each of these works was vital enough to make me, and I think others, be excited to see them in person.” The artists are:
DELAWARE
Delainey Barclay, Installation, Wilmington
Lisa Bartolozzi, Painting, Newark
Dennis Beach, Painting, Wilmington
Kevin Bielicki, Sculpture, Wilmington
Paula Camenzind, Sculpture, Newark
David Clarke, Photography, Wilmington
Bryan Cohen, Painting, Greenville
Dana Crossan, Painting, Wilmington
Alida Fish, Photography, Wilmington
Nathan Horton, Photography, Wilmington
Michael Kalmbach, Painting, Newark
Jane Koester, Photography, Wilmington
George Lorio, Installation, Dover
Ken Mabrey, Painting, Wilmington
Susan Maguire, Multidisciplinary, Newark
Roger Matsumoto, Photography, Newark
David Meyer, Sculpture, Newark
Troy Richards, Painting, Newark
Priscilla Smith, Multidisciplinary, Newark
Robert Straight, Painting, Wilmington
MARYLAND
Keith Bentley, Sculpture, Baltimore
Ellen Burchenal, Drawing, Baltimore
Carolyn Case, Painting, Cockeysville
Brent Crothers, Sculpture, Bel Air
Helen Glazer, Photography, Owings Mills
Julie Jankowski, Painting, Baltimore
Philip Koch, Painting, Baltimore
Nicole Lenzi, Installation, Baltimore
Linling Lu, Painting, Baltimore
Judy Moore, Sculpture, Silver Spring
David Page, Sculpture, Baltimore
Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Drawing, Silver Spring
Mary Skeen, Photography, Baltimore
Rachel Rotenberg, Sculpture, Baltimore
Nora Sturges, Painting, Baltimore
Kelly Walker, Painting, Baltimore
Al Zaruba, Multidisciplinary, Baltimore
NEW JERSEY
Bruce Garrity, Painting, Penns Grove
Wendy Gordon, Sculpture, Lambertville
William Kendzierski, Sculpture, Oaklyn
JC Lenochan, Drawing, Orange
Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Sculpture, Asbury Park
Judith Rosenthal, Sculpture, Cherry Hill
Katherine Stanek, Sculpture, Thorofare
PENNSYLVANIA
Terry Anderson, Multidisciplinary, Unionville
Tom Bendtsen, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Brookes Britcher, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Moe Brooker, Painting, Philadelphia
Anne Canfield, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Giovanni Casadei, Painting, Philadelphia
Jessica Clark, Painting, Philadelphia
Renee Cortese, Video, Philadelphia
John Costanza, Sculpture, Bryn Mawr
Morgan Craig, Painting, Philadelphia
Tim Eads, Sculpture, Philadelphia
Christopher Feiro, Painting, Philadelphia
Steven Ford, Drawing, Philadelphia
Richard Gabriele, Painting, Langhorne
Kiki Gaffney, Painting, Philadelphia
Judy Gelles, Photography, Philadelphia
Daniel Gerwin, Painting, Philadelphia
Walt Goettman, Photography, Lenni
Gregory Gorrell, Painting, Kennett Square
Yikui Gu, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Photography, Philadelphia
Paul Hamanaka, Painting, Philadelphia
Marilyn Holsing, Painting, Merion
Miguel Horn, Sculpture, Philadelphia
Joseph Iacona, Painting, Philadelphia
Robert Jackson, Painting, Kennett Square
Robert Jenkins, Painting, Honeybrook
Michael Kahn, Photography, Coatesville
Kocot and Hatton, Painting, Philadelphia
Mary Ann Krutsick, Painting, Philadelphia
Laura Ledbetter, Drawing, Philadelphia
Donna Lovely, Photography, Newtown
Sandi Neiman Lovitz, Painting, Havertown
Sandra Milner, Painting, Narberth
Peter Miraglia, Photography, Philadelphia
Mary Murphy, Drawing, Philadelphia
Steve Oliver, Painting, Brookhaven
Dan Rios, Photography, Center Valley
Debra Rosenblum, Sculpture, Philadelphia
Harold Ross, Photography, West Chester
Hiro Sakaguchi, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Dan Schimmel, Painting, Penn Valley
Keith Sharp, Photography, Media
Buy Shaver, Painting, Philadelphia
Alan Soffer, Painting, Wallingford
Krista Steinke, Photography, Ambler
Freiman Stoltzfus, Sculpture, Barto
Sabina Tichindeleanu, Drawing, Philadelphia
Donna Usher, Painting, West Chester
Tom Wagner, Painting, Elizabethtown
Carol Wisker, Sculpture, Bala Cynwyd
Burnell Yow!, Multidisciplinary, Philadelphia
Congratulations all. We look forward to seeing your work in the museum.
