SEASON OF THE ARTS
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Plans for this season were
locked in long ago, beginning
with a much-anticipated
The American Spirit: Selections
from the Manoogian Collection.
7Kis eKibition will oͿer
a look at 51 paintings by
American artists, including
Andrew Wyeth, Frederick
Carl Frieseke and painters
of the Hudson River School.
The collection, which was
started about 40 years ago
by Richard and Jane Manoogian,
will be in the Holmes
Gallery through Jan. 8.
The Deborah Butterfield:
Horses exhibition will follow
in the Holmes Gallery
for four months, beginning
)eb. . %utterÀeld·s steeds are most often created from found
objects or cast bronze.
Functional clay pieces from the mid 1800s, created by an
enslaved African potter, David Drake, known then as Dave,
will be in the Schumann Gallery until Dec. 18. He sometimes
inscribed poems on his pieces, in a time when it was illegal to
teach a slave to read and write.
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The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye) take over
the Schumann gallery through May 7.
Paintings by Bruce Marsh, a distinguished Florida artist, is >>
Oxford, a sculpture that
is part of Larry Kagan:
Object/Shadow, can be
seen in the Titelman Galley
through spring.
VBMA
African potter David Drake’s, single
handle jug, 1858, from the collection
of James and Susan Witkowski,
will be in VBMA’s Schumann Gallery
until Dec. 18.
VBMA
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