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Maud Hunt Squire: Illustrator, Painter, Printmaker The daughter of a musician, Maud Hunt Squire was born in Ohio in 1873. She was second in her class at the Art Academy…
September is National Sewing Month, so our collection spotlight shines on "Singing and Mending" by Robert Gwathmey. The artist, a white male, depicted rural life in the South in order…
To contrast the color lithographs on view in our exhibition of French posters, we're highlighting lithographs from the museum collection in August for our collection spotlight. This vibrant work-on-paper is…
Shutterbugs rejoice! World Photography Day celebrates the science, history art and craft of photography. Explore a sampling of works from our impressive collection of prints, which also includes works by…
Can a photograph capture a personality? Lisette Model’s "Lower East Side (woman), New York" is on her stoop in mid-sentence, gesturing to the passersby below. Model found inspiration on the…
In June 2020, our collection spotlight explores permanent collection photography. As June is Pride Month, our first selection is a work by American photographer Chad States. What do you first…
Things are not as they seem in the charming print, "Limed Blossoms." Contemporary artist Walton Ford pays homage to John James Audubon’s artistic style, but he also makes a critical…
Marion Greenwood, a social realist artist who worked in various mediums, is best known for her murals and work in Mexico. Ever breaking barriers, she was the first woman to…
Observe the passing months and seasons in the work of Jane E. Goldman. Cut flowers in glass vases and native plants frame each setting of her intricate prints. Patterned shadows…
Everything from squashed aluminum cans to plastic packaging finds its way into the work of Janet Nolan (B.V.A., 1968). As a young girl in Montgomery, Alabama she absorbed the aesthetic…
Nancy Grossman, a New York City native, created this life-size etching, "Apollo the Healer," in 1995. The Olympian god is associated with medicine and healing, and in this piece, the…
Native New Yorker Loren MacIver took Saturday painting classes at the Art Students League as a youth. After that, the then 10-year old refused to take any further training. Fast…
Grace Hartigan is known as a “Second-Generation Abstract Expressionist,” but she did not exclusively tether herself to the movement. Her close friendship with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de…
By Leslie Schuneman, curatorial intern Diane Arbus is known for her psychologically compelling portraits of socialites and outliers alike. Arbus began her photography career in fashion and advertising and was…
Advanced art history students in assistant professor Emily Burns' classes will get a hands-on look at the world of art curation and have a unique experience for their portfolios using…
Advanced art history students in assistant professor Emily Burns' classes will get a hands-on look at the world of art curation and have a unique experience for their portfolios using…
In this collection spotlight, advanced art history students in Dr. Emily Burn’s class Art of the United States have prepared two practicum exhibitions opening this fall.Pieces selected for the exhibitions…
JCSM fondly remembers artist, patron and friend, Dale Kennington, at her passing in this special edition of Collection Spotlight. Funeral Services will be at: First Methodist Church, 1380 West Main…
Joyce Tenneson (American, b. 1945) Poppy Bouquet, 2003 Edition: 5/25 Archival pigment print, printed in 2014 Museum purchase Joyce Tenneson is an award-winning photographer who has authored more than a…
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, called Le Barbier l’aîné (French, 1738–1826) L’Offrande à Pan (The Offering to Pan), ca. 1770 Pen and ink with various shades of brown washes Museum purchase with…
Maltby Sykes (American, 1911–1992) At Market, 1949 Edition: 36 Lithograph Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; Gift of Barbara Pritchard Maltby Sykes traveled to Mexico City in…
Robert Cottingham (American, born 1935) Four prints from An American Alphabet J, 2003 C, 2010 S, 2007 M, 2002 Edition: 7/40 Edition: 7/40 Edition: 7/50 Edition: 10/40 Color lithographs Museum…
Frank Fleming (American, b. 1940) Serenade, 2013 Bronze, unique cast Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; museum purchase with funds provided by Montgomery Auburn alumni and friends,…
Sangbin IM (South Korean, born 1976; active in New York) Metropolitan Museum Project (Modern Art), 2009 Edition: 4/5 Lambda print on Diasec Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072…
Roger Brown (American, 1941–1997) Hank Williams, Honky Tonk Man, 1990 Oil on canvas Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; museum purchase Alabama native Roger Brown frequently returned…
Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957) Mercado de Flores, 1930 Edition: 26/49 Lithograph Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; gift to the Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Collection in memory…
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) 80 Small Hills Near Alcalde, 1930 Oil on canvas Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; Advancing American Art Collection Georgia O’Keeffe first visited…
John James Audubon (American, 1785–1851) Common Buzzard, Plate CCCLXXVII The Birds of America, first edition, Vol. IV, 1838 Hand-colored aquatint, etching, and line engraving Published by R. Havell and Son,…
Frank Applebee (American, 1902–1988) Untitled (landscape), 1949 Oil on board Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; museum purchase This Cubist-inflected landscape by Frank Applebee, founder of the…
Martin Lewis (American, born in Australia, 1881–1962) Passing Storm, 1919 Mezzotint Edition: 55 Museum purchase in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maltby Sykes Born in Castlemaine,…
William Zorach (American, born in Lithuania, 1887–1966) Torso with Head (the artist’s daughter, Dahlov, at age ten), 1927 Marble Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2012, in…
William Wegman (American, born 1943) Rocks and Stones (puppies on rocks), 1992 C-print, diptych Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2011Upon first glance these large-scale, horizon-less photographs…
Frederick William MacMonnies (American 1863–1937) Pan of Rohallion, 1894 Bronze with dark brown patina 29 ½ 8 ½ x 10 inches Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society,…
Victor de Grailly French View from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts (and the Oxbow, Connecticut River) Oil on canvas Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2013 and the Susan…
Jim Dine (American, born 1935) Dartmouth Still Life, 1974–76 Edition: 30; artist’s proof Etching with hand coloring in crayon Museum purchase A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine took classes…
Sol Wilson (American, born in Polish Russia, 1896–1974) Untitled (fishing village) Gouache or casein on paper Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2012, in memory of Mrs.…
Blanche Lazzell American Landscape, Woodstock Ca. 1917 Oil on canvas Museum purchase with funds provided by Gerald and Emily LeischuckBlanche Lazzell is a truly remarkable American modernist. Born in rural…
Albert Fitch Bellows (American, 1829–1883) Down to the Brook, 1862 13 x 21 ¼ inches Oil on canvas Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2010 In 1863,…
Eugen Kirchner (German, 1865–1938) November, 1896 Etching and aquatint on wove paper Published in Pan, volume II, no. 3 12 1/8 x 7 ½ inches Museum purchase with funds provided…
Judy Pfaff (American, born in England, 1946) Untitled (target, garden, lily pad), 2000 Photogravure, etching, lithograph, chine collé, hand-applied dye, applied leaves Edition: 30 Museum purchase with funds provided by…
Beverly Pepper Curvae in Curvae, 2011–12 Cor-Ten steel Edition: 4/6 15 ¾ x 17 3/8 x 11 inches Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2014 With a…
Clare Leighton (American, born in England, 1898–1989) Canadian Lumber Camp Series: Cutting, Limbing, Loading, Landing, Resting, Breaking Camp, 1931 Edition: 100 Wood engraving Museum purchase with funds provided by the…
Yvonne Jacquette (American, born 1934) Motion Picture (Times Square), 1989–90 Edition: 60 Lithograph and screenprint Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2011 Whether seated in a Cessna…
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) Losbruch (Uprising, also known as Outbreak), 1902–03 Etching on copperplate paper Plate 5 from the cycle Bauernkrieg (Peasant War) State XII published by von der…
Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903–1987) Village Well, 1955 Color woodcut with corresponding woodcut block Museum purchase Mabel Hewit’s Cubist-inspired depiction of life in a Mexican village was created through a…
In this collection spotlight, JCSM remembers artist William Christenberry (1936 - 2016). William Christenberry was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1936—coincidentally, the same year that photographer Walker Evans and writer…
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Focus on the Permanent Collection By Dennis Harper, curator of collections and exhibitionsA third-generation Japanese American, Roger Shimomura was born in Seattle, Washington and has resided in Kansas since 1969 where…
Roger Brown (American, 1941–1997) Galvanized Temple, 1985 Galvanized steel 40 ¼ x 38 ¼ x 53 ½ inches Gift of Greg Brown 2015.22 John Himmelfarb (American, b. 1946) Modern Burden,…
Wednesday, Governor Robert Bentley had the Confederate flags in Montgomery taken down. The removal, and similar debates in other states comes in the wake of a horrific act in Charleston…
Edvard Munch, who lived from 1863–1944, is renowned for his haunting imagery that speaks to universal emotions and experiences. Love, jealousy, separation, and death are among the motifs he…
