The InstigatorThe Hallie Ford Museum of Art invites the public to escape the heat wave with free admission, Tuesday, July 26 through Saturday, July 30.
“It’s going to be a scorcher in Oregon this week, with temperatures approaching 100 degrees,” said HFMA Director John Olbrantz, “so we decided to forgo our normal admission fees and invite people to ‘beat the heat’ and enjoy the April Waters and David Roberts exhibitions for free in the comfort of our air-conditioned building.”
Visitors are sure to feel cooler after visiting the “April Waters: Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica” exhibition, which is ready to transport viewers to a beautiful landscape with looming icebergs and frigid waters. The exhibition also reflects on how this land and its ecosystems are fragile and susceptible to climate change. Waters is a Salem, Oregon, artist well known for her works that focus on water and the landscape. In 2018 she turned her attention to Antarctica when she traveled to Palmer Station as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Waters returned to her studio to transform her sketches, photographs and experiences into the series of paintings presented in this exhibition. (Learn more in our Press Play Salem feature story here)
David Roberts, in collaboration with Louis Haghe, “The Great Temple of Aboo Simble” (Abu Simbel), “Nubia,” November 9, 1838, in “The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia,” vol. 4, 1842‒49, Royal Subscription Edition, hand-colored lithograph, collection of Ken and Linda Sheppard.
The exhibition “David Robert: Artist and Traveler” explores the life and work of this remarkable Scottish self-taught painter (1796-1864). Roberts rose from the depths of poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh to become one of the most celebrated artists and travelers of his generation, a member of the Royal Academy, and an artist whose work can be found in some of the most distinguished public and private collections in Europe and America. A highly ambitious and motivated artist who loved to travel, he is best known for “The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia,” an illustrated travelogue containing hand-colored and tinted lithographs that depicted the temples, tombs, churches, and important historical sites in Egypt and the Holy Land. These prints were produced with renowned lithographer Louis Haghe from sketches Roberts made during a nine-month trip to the region in 1838-39. The exhibition features 60 prints of Spain, Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land on loan from Ken and Linda Sheppard, with several watercolors by Roberts on loan from the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
The museum is located at 700 State St. in Salem. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information call 503-370-6855 or visit willamette.edu/arts/hfma.
Note: This story has been generated from a Press Release received from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
