Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History

Exhibitions

From the Collection: American Regionalism

September 9 - October 28, 2007
Schoolfield Gallery

From the Collection: Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Gordon Grant

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is fortunate to have a fine collection of signed lithographic prints by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Gordon Grant, Luigi Lucioni, and Jackson Lee Nesbitt. These works were given to the Museum by collector Earle Garrett, Jr. in 1978 and contain many of the artists’ most acclaimed pieces. The exhibit will complement "A Celebration of Rural America". In addition, some works by Carson Davenport will be exhibited which show the influence of the American Scene Movement in his paintings. Davenport, a Danville native, was a muralist and director of an art school in the Blue Ridge Mountains as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
















Island Hay by Thomas Hart Benton