The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground
Michener Art Museum
October 22, 2011 — April 1, 2012
Bucks County’s legacy of excellence in the art of canvas and brush is explored in this major exhibition organized by the Michener Art Museum. From the renowned 19th-century painters Edward Hicks and Martin Johnson Heade, to the gifted masters of landscape painting in the first half of the twentieth century, to the lively and inventive New Hope modernists, The Painterly Voice: Bucks County’s Fertile Ground will feature more than 200 works of art by Bucks County’s best-known historic artists.

Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand
Michener Art Museum
October 29, 2011 — February 26, 2012
Learning to See: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand is a series of subtly colored, large-scale photographs combining individual pictures of tree branches. Each picture is more an abstract meditation than a mirror of nature. First, digital files are superimposed to make one combined image, and then several combined images are placed side by side. The images are connected by form,

Quilt Art: International Expressions
Michener Art Museum
September 10 – December 31, 2011
The time-honored tradition of quilting is getting a modern art makeover in Quilt Art: International Expressions at the James A Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., September 10 to December 31 in the Fred Beans Gallery. Barbara Fighera Harrison is sponsor, with additional sponsorship from Mancuso Show Management.

Transmutation and Metamorphosis: The Collages of Ann Irwin
Michener Art Museum
July 9 – October 16, 2011
In Ann Irwin’s universe, the unexpected becomes commonplace and the commonplace is never exactly what you expect. Houses sprout heads and rays of fire. Hills bristle with stick figures. Trees grow ribs and skulls. These transformations can be both ominous and optimistic, witty and wise; they arose from a life committed to creativity and represented a daily triumph over adversity.

So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego
Michener Art Museum
June 4 – October 2, 2011
He was a painter who could barely hold a brush. He had to move his entire body to mix his colors. Yet William T. Trego (1858-1909) was a prize-winning artist with an international reputation, and his highly detailed and powerful battle scenes from the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War were widely exhibited and critically acclaimed during the late 19th century.