Dean Schwarz: Pottery, Painting & Persistence, 1958 – 2011
Opening Reception on Saturday, April 21st
Talk at 3pm
Followed by Reception
Exhibition catalog available at the Gift Shop
Covering five decades of creating, this exhibition of 80 ceramics and 30 paintings, selected from the artist’s collection, is an engaging, visual overflow of color and texture. There is a feeling of seriously harmonious fun: sometimes quirky, ironic and humorous; and sometimes a tribute to history, heroines and heroes. Take the time to read the titles. Invariably Schwarz’s titles offer a portal to understanding the [...]
read more →First Donations
Exhibition Dates: 02/14/12 to 04/07/12
Culled from the museum’s permanent art collection, the exhibit contains paintings and sculptures owned by private collectors and families from New York to San Diego in the 19th century.
A snarling wild boar, three-headed dog, the Roman god Pluto, portraits of a mid-19th century [...]
read more →The New Deal
Exhibition Dates: 11/26/11 to 03/31/12
The New Deal is an exhibition of prints by American artists, along with photographic enlargements depicting American culture during the late 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Featured in this exhibit are fifteen works of art on permanent loan by the Fine Arts Program, General Services Administration of the Federal Government. These prints were produced by unemployed artists paid to create multiple works of art in the lithographic, woodblock, and etching print mediums under the guidelines of the Public Works of Art Project.
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