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Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection |
Friday, May 13, 2022 - Sunday, September 04, 2022 |
Complementing and expanding upon many significant American works in the Museum’s permanent collection on view within the Fralin Center for American Art, Treasures of American Art shares more than 90 works from the private collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin. Leaders and supporters in the community and at the Museum, the Fralins are among the nation’s most ambitious and discerning collectors of late 19th century and early 20th century American art. The exhibition is organized around six central themes:
Landscapes, portraits, and still life paintings by such illustrious American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and John Singer Sargent, among many others, will be on view. |
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Previous page: Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Girl with Turban (Zuleika) (detail), 1938, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Top image: Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), The Balloon Vendor (detail), circa 1910, oil on canvas, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Images left to right: Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Girl with Turban (Zuleika) (detail), 1938, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Gerald Curtis Delano (1890-1972), The Proud People (detail), n.d., oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926), Francoise Wearing a Big White Hat (detail), circa 1908, oil on canvas, 23 ½ x 19 ¾ inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Shell (detail), 1937, oil on canvas, 9 ½ x 13 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), Man Reading, Monhegan (detail), 1974, watercolor on paper mounted on the artist's construction, 21 ½ x 30 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Milton Avery (1885-1965), Visitor by the Sea (detail), 1945, watercolor and pencil on paper, 22 ¾ x 31 inches, Collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin |