Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery

The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery

The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery is recognized as one of the region's foremost spaces in which to experience the achievements of internationally renowned artists and art movements of yesterday and today. Housed in a former church in the medieval-revival style, the Gallery is host to five to six exhibitions a year, with loans from major national and regional art museums, galleries, and collectors. Exhibitions cover a wide range of periods and mediums, including medieval manuscripts, Renaissance prints, Japanese woodcuts, and Pop Art, as well as installations, drawings, and paintings by important contemporary artists and LVC faculty.

Exhibitions are made possible by the The Friends of the Gallery, the Gallery's membership group, as well as other generous sponsors.

2010-2011 Exhibition Schedule

Ansel Adams: Early Works
August 27 - October 17, 2010
Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) transformed the art of photography through his technical innovations and unprecedented use of light and atmospheric effects in images of nature. Ansel Adams: Early Works includes fifty prints predominantly from the first half of Adams' career. They show the Sierra mountains, Yosemite and other natural sites that Adams photographed time and again, and that are now preserved national landmarks. The prints reveal Adams' ability to capture the purity, ephemerality, and spirituality of the American landscape, and demonstrate the photographer's life-long dedication to environmentalism and preservation of the nation's parks and wilderness. Ansel Adams: Early Works is on generous loan from art2art Circulating Exhibitions.

Members-only Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 5-7 p.m.

Admission is $10 for non-members.

Please join us for a special members-only opening reception hosted by President Stephen MacDonald and Mary Warner.

R.S.V.P. to gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445

Lecture: "Ansel Adams in the 1930s." Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wednesday, September 22, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall.

Photography Workshop: Saturday, September 18, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

In conjunction with the exhibition Ansel Adams: Early Works, Nicki Stager, Adjunct Professor of Photography at Lebanon Valley College, will conduct a photography workshop that will highlight the photographic techniques of Ansel Adams, specifically his use of light and atmospheric effects and his technical innovations in photographic and printing processes. Participants will learn basic techniques used by Adams and be asked to shoot their own work outdoors during the workshop. The final portion of the workshop will include an overview of Photoshop toning and a short discussion and critique of the photographs taken during the day. Participants are required to bring their own cameras; digital is preferred as we will spend a portion of the day altering the images on the computer. Pre-registration is required. Registration fee is $30 for the general public, $25 for gallery members, $15 for students. For further information please contact us at 717-867-6445; gallery@lvc.edu.

Violet Oakley: Painting a "Palace of Art" at the Pennsylvania State Capitol
October 29-December 12, 2010
In 1902, Violet Oakley (1874-1961) was commissioned to paint the murals in the Governor's Reception Room at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, an unusual, yet extraordinary honor for a woman in the early twentieth century. Joseph Miller Huston, the Capitol's architect, was determined to create a "Palace of Art", and Oakley's murals in the Reception Room-and subsequently the Senate and Supreme Court Chambers-contributed to this ambitious project. This exhibition includes Oakley's oil studies from the Reception Room, on loan from the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, as well as a number of studies in oil, watercolor, charcoal and other mediums for the Senate and Supreme Court Chambers, on loan from the State Museum in Harrisburg. The works reveal Oakley's artistic process and working methods, and document her significant contributions as a mural painter.

Image: Violet Oakley, Penn's Vision "Behold My Servant Whom I Uphold He Shall Not Fail Nor Be Discouraged till He Have Set Judgment Upon The Earth," 1902-03, oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 37 ins. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 29, 5-7 p.m.

Lecture: Patricia Likos Ricci, Associate Professor of the History of Art, Elizabethtown College, will present a lecture on Violet Oakley’s murals on Wednesday, November 17, at 5 p.m. in Zimmerman Recital Hall. Dr. Ricci is a specialist in nineteenth-century architecture and mural painting, and has published and lectured extensively on the works of Violet Oakley.

Play: Violet Oakley Unveiled.” Written by playwright Cindy Dlugolecki and performed by actress Heather Jannetta, the play recounts Violet Oakley’s remarkable commission to paint a series of murals at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, and provides insight into the private life of this artist, feminist, and political activist. Saturday, November 20, 7 p.m., Leedy Theater. Tickets: $7 for gallery members, LVC faculty and staff; $12 for general public; free for LVC students.

Visions of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Women Landscape Artists
January 21-March 27, 2011

This exhibition focuses on landscape painting as a genre for women artists in the United States beginning in the nineteenth century. Although landscape paintings were traditionally executed by their male counterparts, many women artists, often trained by their artist fathers, husbands, or brothers, devoted their artistic careers to the painting and etching of the American outdoors. Visions of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Women Landscape Artists will highlight a diverse group of female painters, beginning with those associated with the Hudson River School, and will trace the progression of this important genre through the early twentieth century, until World War I. The works of Sarah Cole, Mary Nimmo Moran, Minerva Chapman, Lilla Cabot Perry, M. Josephine Walters, Charlotte Buell Coman, Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, Anna Richards Brewster, and others, will be featured.

Image: M. Josephine Walters, Hudson River Scene, 1884, oil on canvas, 17 x 28 ins. Courtesy of the Neville-Strass Collection.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 5-7 p.m.

40th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
April 8-23, 2011
The annual Juried Art Exhibition, now in its 40^th year, will feature a diverse selection of paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and other media, done by local and regional artists.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 8, 5-7 p.m.

Beverlee Lehr: Geometric Progressions
May 6 - June 26, 2011

A selection of handbuilt stoneware by regional artist Beverlee Lehr will be on display. The exhibition will focus primarily on Lehr's most recent works, specifically her eclectic square series that combines geometric and organic forms along with earth-toned and highly saturated glazes. Earlier works will also be included, revealing the artist's continued focus on diverse geometrical forms.

Image: Beverlee Lehr, Winter Play, 2007, stoneware and aluminum, 12 x 12 x 2 ins. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 5 -7 p.m.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 5-8 p.m.
Thursday-Friday: 1-4:30 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
and by appointment for tour groups.