James A. Michener Art Museum
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The James A. Michener Art Museum is a museum located in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Founded in 1988 and named for Pulitzer-Prize winning writer James A. Michener, the museum is dedicated to preserving, interpreting and exhibiting the art and cultural heritage of the Bucks County region. The museum is home to a world-class Pennsylvania Impressionism collection, works from the Impressionistic art colony centered in New Hope during the early 20th century.
The idea of a museum in Doylestown dedicated to the works of the Pennsylvania Impressionists dates back to 1949, when local artist Walter Emerson Baum founded an informal committee composed of himself, Bucks County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Charles H. Boehm, and Doylestown Intelligencer editor George Hotchkiss to explore the possibilities of the establishment of such an institution. [1]
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[edit] Featured Artists
The James A. Michener Art Museum has a focus on The Pennsylvia Impressionsit and modernist painters and embraces local artists and artisans of Bucks County, New Hope, Washington Crossing, and surrounding areas. In addition to various exhibits onsite, the museum hosts an online interactive database of these artists, including architects, craftspersons, musicians, painters, photographers, poets, printmakers, sculptors, stage and screen artists, and both fiction and nonfiction writers. Dozens of artists both living and dead are featured, from Quaker painter Edward Hicks (1780-1849),master woodworker George Nakashima (1905-1990), sculptor Raymond Granville Barger (1906 - 2001), to Philadelphia's creative married couple, authors and illustrators Stan and Jan Berenstain (born 1923), and internationally recognized jewelry designer Diana Vincent, of Washington Crossing.
The Michener's website also includes a special online exhibition, Mapping the Journey of Bucks County Artists, which details the lives and creations of PA Impressionists.
[edit] Permanent Exhibits
- The Lenfest Exhibition of Pennsylvania Impressionism
- George Nakashima, Nakashima Reading Room
- Daniel Garber, A Wooded Watershed (22-foot mural painted for the Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 held in Philadelphia)
[edit] References
- ^ Baum, Walter Emerson (1949). The Kline-Baum Art School, 1949 Annual Report. The Kline-Baum Art School, 12.
[edit] External links
- James A. Michener Art Museum - Official site
- Breaking Ground--A Not so Usual Shovel
- Article on Human Faces of War Exhibit
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