September 28 - November 4, 2001
Opening Evening Lecture: "Emily Groom"
Frank C. Lewis, Director of Exhibitions and Curator of Collections
The Wriston Art Center Galleries, Lawrence University
Friday, September 28, 2001, 6 p.m., Wriston Auditorium
Opening reception: Friday, September 28, 2001, 7 - 8 p.m.
An exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Emily Groom, founder and first chairperson of the Milwaukee-Downer College Art Department. Ms. Groom was one of the most widely exhibited Wisconsin artists in the first half of the twentieth century. Her career spanned over eighty years and her subject matter ranged from landscapes to brilliantly colored still life arrangements. Milwaukee-Downer College and Lawrence College consolidated to become Lawrence University in 1964.
Modernity and the Fragment
November 16 - December 16, 2001
Works of art from the permanent collection of the Wriston Galleries that give expression to the alienation and fragmentation which many artists felt at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the many important early twentieth century movements represented will be Cubism and German Expressionism.
Landscape and the Natural Order
January 18 - March 17, 2002
Throughout history artists have sought to represent both the wonder and awe that they have felt in front of nature. Through both historical and contemporary examples, this exhibition will display the variety of responses, ranging from traditional landscape paintings to more conceptual and abstract approaches to the landscape and nature.
Portraits of Power
April 5 - May 19, 2002
To celebrate the recent addition of a number of coins into Lawrence University's already impressive collection, advanced students in art history will research and interpret the role and the variety of portrait types in classical coins. This exhibition will put a number of coins from the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins, now housed in the Wriston Galleries, into a social, cultural, historical, and aesthetic context.
Senior Exhibition
May 31 - August 5, 2002
Lawrence University's Senior Art Majors present a selection of their finest work created during their course of study. Works exhibited will include paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, photography and a variety of sculptural media.
Call 920-832-6621 for more information.
