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Archive: Feb 2016

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Art Fix Friday: February 5, 2016
Posted: February 5, 2016
Category: Archive: Feb 2016
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

5 Fast Facts: Eva Zeisel
Posted: February 4, 2016
Category: Archive: Feb 2016
Impress your friends with five fast facts about designer Eva Zeisel (1906–2011), whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February...
Round shapes with dimples in the middle that resemble the belly button from the human body in candy-colored glazes that are stacked in four vertical rows of to create S-shaped lines.

Now on View: “Salon Style” Portraits
Posted: February 2, 2016
Category: Archive: Feb 2016
Salon Style: French Portraits from the Collection examines portraiture by women artists of 18th-century France, who struggled past barriers of training, public opinion, and political turmoil to attain professional success.
Oval portrait of a young woman with light skin gazes out at the viewer with her dark tousled curls framing her face and shoulders.