EXHIBITIONS 2012
Celebrating Diversities in Art
14 January - 26 February 2012
Reception: 13 January, 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. Hosted by the Friends of the Springfield Art Museum.
This exhibition, pulled from the permanent collection of the Springfield Art Museum, celebrates multiculturalism in the United States. It features artwork that honors the artists' background from Native Americans, to Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans to African Americans. The exhibition will include recent acquisitions by artists such as Emmi Whitehorse, Wendy Red Star, Neal Ambrose-Smith and Karsten Creightney.
Right: Reneé Stout, Marie Laveau, 2009, lithograph. Ed. 23/36. Collection of the Springfield Art Museum.
Acquisitions from 2011
13 January - 11 March 2012, King and Courtyard Galleries
This exhibition will showcase artwork added to the Permanent Collection of the Springfield Art Museum through purchases and gifts during the year 2011. Artists included in the exhibition are Philip Pearlstein, Janet McCarren, Frederick Mershimer, Keith Allen Crown, Gaetano LaRoche and Kawase Hasui.
Right: Frederick Mershimer, Riverside, 2007, mezzotint and aquatint in color. Museum Acquisition Fund.
10 March - 15 April 2012
An exhibition of artwork created by Springfield's young artists (K-12) to celebrate Youth Art Month. The exhibition, containing over 1000 works in a variety of media, is selected by the art instructors of the Springfield R-12 schools and participating parochial schools in Springfield.
Watercolor Now!
5 May - 8 July 2012
Reception: 8 June, 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. Hosted by the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates.
This invitational exhibition will showcase work by members of the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society.
Watercolor U.S.A. 2012
9 June - 5 August 2012
Reception: 8 June, 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. Hosted by the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates.
The 51st annual national, competitive exhibition of aqueous media painting.
About Watercolor U.S.A.
Watercolor U.S.A. is the Springfield Art Museum's nationally known, annual juried exhibition featuring some of the country's best-known artists and jurors. The event is open to artists from all 50 states and U.S. territories. Hundreds of entries are received annually and judged for a variety of prizes, and possible purchase by the Museum or its patrons. Organized in 1962, this event attracts thousands of visitors annually to the Museum and to Springfield to view the work of exhibitors.
Read more about Watercolor U.S.A.
John Cavanaugh: Hammered Lead
15 September - 11 November 2012
Reception: 14 September, 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. Hosted by the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates.
Considered to be the 20th century's "master of hammered lead," sculptor John Cavanaugh was best known for his innovative direct metal technique of working with the medium. Concerned with capturing the unique surface qualities of the medium, Cavanaugh expressed a sense of intimacy and motion in works ranging from figurative to impressionistic to abstraction. His ability to capture his subjects - both animal and human - in private, unexpected moments is evocative of the work of Degas, yet filled with touches of whimsy and mysticism that imbue each piece as completely his own.
This exhibit was organized with the assistance of the John Cavanaugh Foundation and made possible by a grant from the Philip Froeder Trust.
Right: John Cavanaugh, Allegro, 1979, hammered lead. Collection of the John Cavanuagh Foundation.
MOAK 2012 4-state Regional Exhibition
17 November 2012 - 13 January 2013
Reception: 16 November, 5:30 - 7:00 P.M.
The MOAK 4-State Regional Exhibition is intended to recognize and encourage artists working in all media who reside in the four-state region of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. The exhibit is held biennially, alternating with Prints U.S.A. Judges for the exhibition are selected on a rotating basis from one of the four states. A number of cash and Museum purchase awards are available for each exhibition.
Current Exhibitions from the Permanent Collection
Song of the Flowers
Closes 4 March 2012.
The exhibition explores the beauty of flowers in its many forms. The show includes drawings and paintings by Joseph Raffael, David Plank, Chen Chi, Robert Plummer and Warren Brandt.
Right: Sandy Meyers, Droplets of Life, 1999, watercolor. Gift of Gary and Pam Cunningham.
Series Of Print: From Callot to Warhol
Closes 5 February 2012.
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of the Museum's many series of prints. Highlights include Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup #1, Oskar Kokoschka's Manhattan Series, Donald K. Sultan's Smoke Rings and Jacques Callot's Misere de la Guerre.
Above: Andy Warhol, Soup #1 series, 1969, screenprint. Gift of Ronald K., Robert C., and Larry H. Greenberg.
Domestic Vacations: Photographs by Julie Blackmon
Closes 4 March 2012.
This exhibition will feature six photographs by local artist Julie Blackmon; from her series Domestic Vacations.
Right: Julie Blackmon, Baby Toss, 2009, c-print. Gift of the artist.
Upcoming Exhibitions from the Permanent Collection
The Oeuvre of Ben N. Messick
11 February - 29 April.
This exhibition will feature fifty-five lithographs and paintings by Ben N. Messick, an artist from Strafford, Missouri. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s. He is well-known for his Regionalist scenes as well as Modernist paintings. He returned to Chouinard in the 1940s where he remained as an instructor through the 1950s. While there, he influenced a generation of Los Angeles modernists.
Right: Ben N. Messick, Wash Day, 1945, oil. Gift of the Artist and his wife, Mrs. Velma Hay Messick.
From A to Z
3 March - 22 April 2012
Explore the exhibition "From A to Z" by using twenty-six works of art to find each letter of the alphabet. Each artwork is hung in alphabetical order. Either the subject or title will be used to identify each letter. This exhibit will feature artwork by several artists such as Robert A. Nelson, Charles Banks Wilson, Jacob Lawrence, Bruce West, Pablo Picasso and April Gornick.
Right:Pablo Picasso, Le Hibou sur la Chaise, 1947, lithograph.Gift of the Fine Arts.
