Whitfield Lovell, After an Afternoon, 2008.
Radios with sound, 59 x 72 x 11 inches.
Courtesy DC Moore Gallery. Photography by Kevin Ryan. © Whitfield Lovell
Summer Hours:
May 26 - July 24, 2009
Mechanical Hall:
September 2 -
December 6, 2009
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies
Reception
September 14, 2009
5 - 7 p.m.
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies Symposium
Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 2009
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies juxtaposes historical, documentary photographs of musical performers with modern and contemporary artworks that engage the legacy of black American music. Artists represented include: Terry Adkins, Jim Alexander, Frank Bowling, Adger Cowans, John Dowell, Colette Gaiter, Curlee Holton, Whitfield Lovell, Jefferson Pinder, P.H. Polk, Ellington Robinson, Frank Stewart, William T. Williams and more.
Opening celebration featuring the UD Faculty Jazz Ensemble:
September 14, 2009, 5-7 PM.
Interdisciplinary symposium: October 1-2, 2009. Both events are free and open to the public. Information: www.udel.edu/museums; phone: (302) 831 8037; e-mail: universitymuseums@udel.edu
This program is partially funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Additional support comes from College of Arts and Sciences, the Paul R. Jones Initiative and the Department of Conservation.
Felrath Hines, Snowbanks, 1959.
Oil on canvas board, 20 x 24. University Museums, University of Delaware. Gift of the artist's wife.
© Felrath Hines
Spring 2010 (February 10 - June 6th, 2010)
Abstract Relations: Selections from the David C. Driskell Center Collection and the University of Delaware
This exhibit highlights recent gifts from the widow of artist and conservator Felrath Hines (1913-1993) to the UD University Museums and the University of Maryland's David C. Driskell Center. The work of Hines from the 1950s to the 1990s serves as a point of departure for an exhibition of varying traditions and methods of abstraction in African American art. Other artists represented include Alma Thomas, Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, William T. Williams, E.J. Montgomery and David Driskell.
The Mineralogical Museum in Penny Hall:
The Mineralogical Museum is now open! Permanent exhibition of the nationally renowned mineralogical collection.
University Gallery in Old College:
University Gallery in Old College currently closed. Scheduled to re-open spring 2010 with exhibition from the Permanent Collection.