Still Life Stories: Beauty, Bounty, and Reflection
March 19 – June 8
This group exhibition celebrates the vitality of the still life tradition and its themes of beauty, bounty, and fleeting moments. Still Life Stories features paintings from the Cahoon Museum’s permanent collection -lush florals and fruits by Edward Chalmers Leavitt, Marie LeValley, Levi Wells Prentice and others- surrounded by striking examples of the genre by contemporary local and regional artists.
Still life paintings emphasize the artist’s skill in realistically rendering details, texture, and imbuing life-like qualities into a two-dimensional form. Still lifes often convey stories or deeper meaning, such as a reflection on impermanence. Still Life Stories includes many types of this genre such as floral bouquets, bountiful food and banquet images, animals, and symbolism.
Featured artists include Deborah Carter, Martha Cahoon, Ralph Cahoon, Nicole Duennebier, Valerie Hegarty, Marie LeValley, Edward Chalmers Leavitt, Brad Nelson, James Peale, Levi Wells Prentice, Larry Preston, Scott Prior, Shelley Reed, Severin Roesen, Curtis Speer, Eric Wert, and Abbie Lowella Zuill.