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Edward Hopper. Mrs. Scott’s House. 1932.
Oil on canvas. Louise Jordan Smith Fund, 1936
A Century of Contemporary Art:
The Annual Exhibition at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
BTY ELLEN SCHALL AGNEW his year marks the 100th
World War I) annual exhibition devoted to American art in the United States. Historical assessments of past Annual Exhibitions show scant detailed documentation. However, checklists of the works included do exist and reveal that the American (and sometimes
and to house a portion of the college’s permanent collection of American art. In April 1983 the former Art Gallery was formally dedicated and established as the Maier Museum of Art.
European) artists represented were among the major figures in contemporary art movements of the period.
To understand and appreciate fully the significance of one hundred years of exhibiting the best of American art, one must consider the circumstances that put such a plan into action. The story begins with an institution, Randolph- Macon Woman’s College, and its vision for higher education and the arts in this
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anniversary of the Annual Exhibition at the Maier Museum of Art1, arguably the longest continuous (but for one year during
From 1911 to 1952 Annual Exhibitions were displayed in campus buildings at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1953 the Annuals began to be installed in a new building on campus called the Art Gallery that was built in 1952 by the National Gallery of Art as a repository
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