Events
Lillian Vanous Nutt Room
Les États-Unis: dessins de Charles A. Lesueur
January 11-March 31, 2010
Please visit the Library for our new exhibit Les États-Unis: dessins de Charles A. Lesueur. Featured are select plates, from our rare book collections, of drawings from Charles A. Lesueur’s travels to the United States during 1816-1837. Charles Lesueur, a native of Le Havre, France, traveled extensively through Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey and filled his sketchbook with drawings of the landscape and natural life around him. During his stay, Lesueur helped found the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and served as the curator there for nine years. Later he went on to New Harmony, Indiana where he taught painting and drawing.
The set of plates, which number 50, were selected from over 1600 of Lesueur’s drawings and were reproduced in facsimile by Daniel Jacomet of Paris in 1933. Jacomet specialized in pochoir, the oldest technique of multicolor reproduction. He produced pochoir prints in collaboration with Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, and others.
For library hours, please visit the library's webpage or call 410-626-2548.
Free and open to the public.
Funding and support for this exhibition is provided by the
Lillian Vanous Nutt Mitchell Gallery Endowment.
James Earl: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Prints
April 6 – May 16, 2010
James Earl, Metro Test (1974), Silkscreen Print
When James Earl saw Andy Warhol’s silk-screened Brillo Boxes at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1973, it sparked an enduring interest in art. Subsequently, he began to make silkscreen prints, do etchings, and take drawing classes. In 1982, these activities led to a BA degree in studio art from the University of Maryland.
For thirty years, Earl has carried a pocket sketchbook to record scenes from his life in pencil, ink, and watercolor. Many of these drawings have been developed into prints that will be on display, along with ten original sketchbooks, in the Lillian Vanous Nutt Room of the Greenfield Library.
For library hours, please visit the library's webpage or call 410-626-2548.
Free and open to the public.
Funding and support for this exhibition is provided by the
Lillian Vanous Nutt Mitchell Gallery Endowment.