Screen printing originated in China during the Song dynasty (960-1279) as a means of transferring designs onto fabric. This technology diffused into neighboring Asian countries, such as Japan, where it further developed. In time, screen printing techniques spread far and wide on the cross-cultural currents that connected East Asia to Europe and beyond, though the Western world did not widely adopt screen printing until the 20th century.
To make a screen print, ink is forced through a mesh screen and onto a surface. Certain areas of the screen, which was traditionally made of silk, are made impervious to ink using a variety of methods. This creates a stencil. Ink is allowed to pass through the unblocked areas of the stencil and onto the surface, forming the printed image.
Many modern and contemporary artists have embraced the versatility of screen printing to create visually striking and technically complex images. Stenciled features exciting screen prints from the Museum’s permanent collection, including works by 20th century icons who popularized this art form, such as Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol, and others, such as West Virginia native Don Pendleton, who continue pushing and pulling the medium in new directions.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The “Art on a Limb” exhibit of artist-decorated trees featuring ornaments created by local artisans will be on view at the Huntington Museum of Art from November 26, 2024, through January 5, 2025. One of the highlights of the “Art on a Limb” exhibit includes the Palette Tree in HMA’s Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall. This tree features hand-painted palettes by local and regional artists.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Sarah Pike is a full-time potter who lives in Fernie, a small mountain town in British Columbia, Canada, which is the traditional territory of the indigenous Ktunaxa people. Pike earned a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1998. She continued to study ceramics at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota.
She makes functional, slab-built wares and is very interested in creating stamps and texture tools, which she presses into soft clay. She teaches her techniques in ceramics workshops around the world. She also exhibits internationally with recent solo exhibitions held at Akar Gallery, Iowa; Good Earth Gallery, Washington; and Schaller Gallery, Michigan. She is a proud member of Make & Do, a volunteer-run collective that promotes talented, passionate, and diverse ceramic artists working across Canada.
Pike is inspired by the beautiful landscape around her home and the rich, worldwide history of pottery, but also antique tinware, textured metal, interesting fabric patterns, and the old things you might find in barns. Lately, she is obsessing over the ogee curve and how it tessellates across a form. Her studio is her natural habitat, but if she is not making pots, she is probably exploring the mountains by ski or bike. She is generally thinking about snacks.
This program is presented by the Booth Foundation in memory of Dr. Alex Booth Jr. and Katherine Booth.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Every 365 days, Earth, spinning on its tilted axis, completes one elliptical orbit around our sun. During this procession of time and celestial motion, the sun smiles differently on the northern and southern hemispheres of our globe, creating the four seasons that many experience throughout the year. For cultures in temperate and polar climates, snow is synonymous with winter, that coldest, darkest season when the sun’s rays are less intense.
Artists have found inspiration in the landscape since ancient times, but in the Western world, representations of snow-covered scenes first appeared during the 15th and 16th centuries. Depicting nature increasingly became more natural as landscapes of all kinds grew to be considered respected subjects, worthy of artistic exploration and popular with patrons. Curated from the Museum’s permanent collection, Let It Snow! emerges from this history with wintry artworks that invite both meteorological and metaphorical interpretations.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Daytons’ interest in collecting art began in 1916 when they received the painting Munich Landscape, by Ross Sterling Turner, as a wedding present. The couple, both natives of Philippi, West Virginia, began seriously building their collection while living in Charleston, West Virginia, from 1923-1948. They purchased art from galleries and, over the years, cultivated a special relationship with MacBeth Gallery in New York City. They also bought from auctions, from prestigious exhibitions such as the Carnegie International, and purchased works directly from the studios of artists they admired – in the United States and abroad. They kept detailed records of where and when each object was acquired.
The Daytons were students of art history, especially 19th and 20th century American art. They shared a love of landscapes and were particularly interested in the work of academically trained artists working in the various schools of realism and American Impressionism. Their collection grew to include masterpieces by Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Emil Carlsen, John Twachtman, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Charles Davis, and works by “The Eight.” Early American modernists and the ideals expressed by those artworks were of little interest.
In 1929, Ruth purchased from MacBeth Gallery an etching titled Calvary Church in Snow by Childe Hassam and gave it to Arthur as a Christmas gift. Thus began a rich collection of engravings, etchings, and lithographs by American and European printmakers. The Daytons also had a penchant for small bronzes, especially by women artists working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Grace Helen Talbot, Harriet Frishmuth, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Edith Parsons. A small collection of Lacy period glass was also part of the collection.
In 1948, Arthur Dayton died suddenly at the age of sixty-one. Wishing to share the collection with the public, Ruth Dayton turned a building on the property adjacent to their home in Lewisburg, West Virginia, into a museum. She called it The Daywood Gallery, combining Arthur’s surname (Dayton) and her maiden name (Woods). The collection continued to grow through purchases and donations, and The Daywood Gallery remained in operation from 1951 into 1966.
The Daywood Collection was donated to the Huntington Museum of Art in 1967 where it is the crown jewel in the Museum’s permanent collection. When Ruth Dayton gave the collection to the Museum, she expressed great personal satisfaction in knowing that it was going to be cared for and properly displayed, remarking that “the Daywood Collection will always have a home in West Virginia and will continue, through the years, to bring pleasure to art lovers in the State as well as to visitors from throughout the nation.”
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.