Offering of the Angels (Il Pane degli Angeli)
James A. Michener Art Museum
April 21, 2012-August 11, 2012
For the first time ever, a selection of paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by such Renaissance and Baroque masters as Sandro Botticelli, Il Parmigianino, Lorenzo Monaco, Il Guercino and Cristofano Allori, is coming to the United States.
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.
Making it Better: Folk Arts in Pennsylvania Today
Michener Art Museum
May 14 through August 28
Making it Better: Folk Arts in Pennsylvania Today will be on view in the Fred Beans Gallery at the James A. Michener Art Museum May 14 through August 28.
Add Sugar and Stir: Cookbooks and the Lives of Women
James A. Michener Art Museum
March 19 – June 26, 2011
To Bucks County artist Kirby Fredendall, a cookbook is more than a collection of recipes—it is a form of literature written by and for women. In Add Sugar and Stir: Cookbooks and the Lives of Women, on view in the James A. Michener Art Museum’s Pfundt Gallery from March 19 through June 26, Fredendall uses text and illustrations from actual cookbooks as the basis for complex and imaginative works of art.
Si Lewen: A Journey
Pfundt Gallery
December 4 – March 6, 2011
There are fewer and fewer people today who saw the Holocaust with their own eyes, and can tell the story first-hand. Si Lewen, 92, is one with a gift to recount the story not only in words but in haunting and powerful images. None other than Albert Einstein said of Lewen: “Our time needs you and your work.”
Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer
Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon
Michener Art Museum
February 19 – May 15, 2011
Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club
Museum’s Pfundt Gallery
August 21 – November 21, 2010
As the renowned Philadelphia Sketch Club celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, marking it as America’s oldest continuously operating club for professional artists, the James A. Michener Art Museum recognizes the organization’s most notable Bucks County members with an exhibit of works on paper. Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club is on view August 21 through November 21, 2010 in the Museum’s Pfundt Gallery.
New York City-based artist Gunnar Theel has donated his installation Skye Group (3) to the James A. Michener Art Museum in honor of the late Robin Larsen, founder and director of the New Hope Arts Center. On loan by the artist since 2007, the welded steel sculpture is on view outside of the Museum along Pine Street in Doylestown.