Ashland University’s Coburn
Gallery will host an exhibition titled “Picturing the
Past: Highlights from the Ashland
University Permanent Collection,” it will
feature a selection of artworks from the Myers Collection curated by AU
Associate Professor Dr. Wendy Schaller.
The
seventeen historical paintings featured in the exhibition “Picturing the
Past: Highlights from the Ashland
University Permanent Collection,” span a period of 500 years of art historical
development representing the styles of a number of important schools and
geographic locations both European and American. The works selected demonstrate the broad
scope of Ashland University’s collection and include Christian subjects,
historical scenes, genre scenes, landscapes, portraits, and animal
paintings. While four of the works on
display were previously exhibited together at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at
Oberlin College in 1941 (“Loan Exhibition of Paintings Selected from the John
C. Myers Collection”), this particular selection of paintings has never before
been exhibited together. The
university’s collection has significant educational value and this exhibition
offers a unique opportunity to share these fascinating paintings with the
broader university population and Ashland community.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held Thursday, January 24, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Coburn Gallery. The reception is free and open to the public and the exhibition runs through February 23, 2019. For more information about the exhibition contact the Coburn Gallery at 419.289.5652 or www.ashland.edu/coburngallery.
