Past Exhibitions
Modernist Prints: 1900-1950
November 4 – December 18, 2011
This exhibition is comprised of artwork spanning the early modern period, a time of innovative experimentation in a rapidly changing world. It will include the work of such distinguished European artists as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miro and the work of American artists John Marin, Arthur B. Davies and Milton Avery. This exhibition has been organized by Syracuse University Art Galleries.
Image: Fernand Leger, Composition, 1920, lithograph on brown wove paper, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in., Syracuse University Art Galleries.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4, 5–7 p.m. Featuring special jazz accompaniment by Lebanon Valley College musicians G. Blake Harrison-Lane, Mark Sweeney and John Petruzzelli.
Lecture: Dr. Gerald Silk, professor of modern and contemporary art, chair of the art history department, Temple University. "Prints Matter: Themes and Variations in the Modernist Print."
Thursday, November 10, 5 p.m.
Zimmerman Recital Hall
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Mono-Printing Workshop: Nancy Williams, adjunct instructor of art and art education, Lebanon Valley College, will host a workshop on contemporary mono-printing with water-based inks.
Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Participants must pre-register and pay a participation fee.
For more information, please contact the Gallery at gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.
Mono-Printing—Children's Workshop:
Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Materials will be provided.
Participants must pre-register and pay a participation fee.
For more information, please contact the Gallery at gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.
Money, Art and the Art of Money
September 2 – October 23, 2011
This exhibition considers money as a material pleasure in art, as well as the obsession with money that transpired in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, leading to the trompe l'oeil paintings of William Harnett, Victor Dubreuil, John Frederick Peto and others. The continued interest in depictions of currency by pop and contemorary artists such as Andy Warhol and J.S.G. Boggs, are also highlighted. The exhibition is held in conjunction with Lebanon Valley College's annual colloquium.
Image: Otis Kaye, Washington and the Half Dollar, after 1929, oil on panel, 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. Collection of Spanierman Gallery, New York.
Opening Reception: Please join us for a special opening reception hosted by President Stephen MacDonald and Mary Warner.
Friday, September 2, 5–7 p.m.
Admission for Gallery members is free, $10 for non-members.
R.S.V.P. to gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.
Lecture: Karen Carolan, Executive Director, Appraisal Services of the Art Dealers Association of America. "Valuing and Appraising Art for Federal Tax Purposes."
Thursday, September 29, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall
Refreshments sponsored by the Lebanon Valley College MBA program.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Trompe L'Oeil Painting Workshop: Maryland artist Eric Conklin will conduct a workshop teaching the trompe l'oeil painting method.
Saturday, October 15, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Participants must pre-register and pay a participation fee. All materials will be provided.
For more information, or to register, please contact the Gallery at gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.
Trompe L'Oeil —Children's Workshop:
Saturday, October 15, 9–11:30 a.m.
Participants must pre-register and pay a participation fee. All materials will be provided.
For more information, or to register, please contact the Gallery at gallery@lvc.edu or 717-867-6445.
Beverlee Lehr: Geomtric Progressions
May 6 - June 27, 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.
Opening reception: Friday, May 13, 2011
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m., Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
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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, before 1883, oil on canvas, 17 x 28 ins. Courtesy of the Neville-Strass Collection.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 5-7 p.m.
Lecture: "American Landscape Traditions, From Pastoralism to Impressionism", Dr. Robin Veder, Associate Professor of Humanities and Art History/Visual Culture, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg, Thursday, February 17, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall.
Landscape Painting Workshop: Local artist Michael Allen will lead a hands-on workshop on traditional landscape painting using oil paints, on Saturday, February 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Painting Studio 006 of Lynch Memorial Hall. The workshop will include a basic landscape painting demonstration and information on nineteenth-century, as well as contemporary methods of landscape painting. Pre-registration is required. Please register by February 11. Registration fee is $60 for the general public, $10 for Lebanon Valley College students. Registration forms can be downloaded here. http://www.lvc.edu/gallery/documents/landscape-workshop-registration.pdf
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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 “Violet Oakley: The State as a Work of Art,” 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.
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.
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.
Carol Galligan: In Search of the Tao
May 21 - July 11, 2010
This exhibition showcases the works of Lancaster-based artist Carol Galligan, renowned for her large-scale mixed media works. Galligan's scroll-like works focus on color and texture and are influenced by the Chinese philosophy of Daoism.
Opening reception: Friday, May 21, 5-7 p.m.
Artist's Talk: Saturday, June 12, 10:45 a.m., Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
39th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
April 30 - May 9, 2010
The perennially popular Juried Art Exhibition features a diverse selection of paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics and other media, created by local and regional artists.
Opening reception and awards ceremony: Friday, April 30, 5-7 p.m
Piranesi: The Grandeur of Ancient Rome
March 5- April 25, 2010
This splendid exhibition features over forty etchings by eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Many works in the exhibition are from the artist's Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome) series and demonstrate Piranesi's dramatic use of light and perspective. An etching from Piranesi's famous Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) series is also included. Piranesi: The Grandeur of Ancient Rome is a traveling exhibition organized by Blair-Murrah Exhibitions.
Opening reception: Friday, March 12, 5-7 p.m.
Lecture: "Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Rome", Dr. Robin Thomas, Assistant Professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University. Monday, March 29, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall
Carol Brown Goldberg: Aura and the Implicate Order
January 15 - February 21, 2010
This exhibition features a selection of abstract paintings by Washington-based artist Carol Brown Goldberg. Goldberg's works explore the relationship between color, shape, movement and space. Comprised of grids of colored circles, her large canvases draw the viewer in and move the eye through and beyond the rhythm of the receding circles. The broad spectrums of colors, executed in acrylic, are intensified by the pulverized glass that Goldberg adds to her pigments, creating an effect that she compares to the twinkling cosmos at night.
Opening reception: Friday, January 22, 5-7 p.m.
Lecture: "Mysical Physics: Carol Brown Goldberg's Paintings", Dr. Donald Kuspit, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Monday, February 1, 7 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall
The Actor's Image: The Japan-Virginia Society Collection of Ukiyo-e Prints
October 23 - December 13, 2009
This exhibition includes fifty-five woodblock prints created in nineteenth-century Japan. Featuring Kabuki theater and its famous actors, these prints offer a rich array of compelling images that invite viewers into the lively world of Japanese art and theatre. The ukiyo-e prints in the exhibition were all created by artists of the Utagawa school, and date from 1820-1865. The Actor's Image is a traveling exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts .
Opening reception: Friday, October 23, 5-7 p.m.
Japanese Tea Ceremony: Drew Hanson, licensesd teacher of the Urasenke Tradition of Japanese tea, will present an authentic Japanese Tea Ceremony on Wednesday, October 28 at 5 p.m. in the Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.
Lecture: "Making Pictures for the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Artists and Publishers", Dr. Julie Nelson Davis, Associate Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Wednesday, November 18, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall.
N.C. Wyeth: Storyteller
August 28 - October 11, 2009
N.C. Wyeth: Storyteller features a select grouping of important paintings by Wyeth, including works executed in preparation for book and magazine illustrations, as well as independent easel paintings. One of the most successful illustrators of all time, Wyeth studied under the foremost illustrator Howard Pyle and is best known for his illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post and for his illustrations of the Scribner's Classics, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Robinson Crusoe.
Openng Reception: Friday, August 28, 5-7 p.m.
Artists' Panel: "Conversations on N.C. Wyeth", Rob Evans, Randall Exxon and Dan Massad will meet to discuss the work of N.C.Wyeth. Thursday, September 10, 5 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall
Lecture: "Landscapes by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth", Joyce Hill Stoner, Professor, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation,Tuesday, September 29, 7 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall