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The Art Museum at the University Of Kentucky
Lexington, KY |
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The Art Museum at the University Of Kentucky |
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Accredited by the American Association of Museums and one of the largest art museums in Kentucky, the UK Art Museum collects, preserves, studies, and exhibits the best of humanity's artistic heritages. The museum maintains a growing permanent collection of more than 4,000 European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and decorative arts. There are also holdings in art of the Americas, Africa and Asia. Permanent collection galleries and a changing schedule of diverse exhibitions provide a broad range of experiences for the visitor. The University of Kentucky Art Museum is located on the UK campus in the SingletaryCenter for the Arts on the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue.
The museum is open noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday and noon to 8 p.m. on Friday; closed Monday and University holidays. Free admission for most exhibitions. |
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Exhibitions:
Master Works by Kentucky Painters: 1819-1935 The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky September 14-November 30, 2008 More than a century of Kentucky’s heritage will be on view in this exhibition of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and historical subjects by artists who lived or worked in Kentucky. Museum visitors will experience Kentucky’s natural beauty-from tranquil woodlands to riverside palisades-as seen through the eyes of artists such as Harvey Joiner, Paul Sawyier, John Thomas Bauscher, and Carl Christian Brenner. Portraits in the exhibition range from 1820s oils by Matthew Jouett and Aaron Houghton Corwine to early 19th century paintings like Patty Thum’s Lady of the Lilies and James Roy Hopkins’s Lady in Blue. Other featured artists include: Stephen Alke, Oliver Frazier, Hattie Hutchcraft Hill, Matthew Jouett, Magdalene Harvey McDowell, Paul Plaschke, Samuel Woodson Price, Dixie Selden, and Edward Troye. As a pendant to the Kentucky Painters exhibition the Museum is also presenting Jesta Bell: J.B. Armstrong Discovered which will introduce the work of a regional artist who painted MercerCounty landscapes and landmarks from the 1930s through the 1970s. Thirty years ago, the Art Museum hosted the first scholarly exhibition of Kentucky’s master painters. The current exhibition, guest curated by art historian and scholar Estill Curtis Pennington, brings to light three decades of new research, new scholarship, and newly discovered artwork. Master Works by Kentucky Painters showcases paintings from private collections and public institutions as well as from the art museum’s own holdings. Lenders include Ashland: The Henry Clay House and Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington; the HopewellMuseum in Paris; the Brennan House, The Farmington Historic Home, the Filson Historical Society, Liberty Hall Historic Site and the Speed Museum of Art, in Louisville; and Morris Communications Corporation and the MorrisMuseum in Augusta, Georgia.
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