{"id":23816,"date":"2017-04-11T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23816"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:40:35","slug":"art-watch-celebrating-american-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23816","title":{"rendered":"Art Watch: Celebrating American masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:<\/strong> Our regular Art Watch columnist, Lele Galer, is getting a well deserved week off. Filling in is Vickie Manning, owner of Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Vickie Manning<\/strong>, Special to the Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Angered Dandelions (Pissed Dandelions) by Jamie Wyeth, as seen at Somerville Manning Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n

Somerville Manning Gallery is currently featuring two exhibitions at their location in Breck\u2019s Mill in Wilmington Delaware. American\u00a0Masters:\u00a0Art of the 19th\u201320th\u00a0Centuries and Protected Land: Celebrating the 50th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Brandywine Conservancy and the land that they preserve. Both exhibitions will be on view from\u00a0April 11 \u2013 May 27, 2017<\/p>\n

For almost thirty-five years, Somerville Manning Gallery has specialized in paintings by the Wyeth family. Their exhibition,\u00a0American Masters, continues to juxtapose the artworks of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth with the artists of their respective eras. Returning to a theme so successfully received, the gallery\u2019s exhibition runs concurrent with the Brandywine River Museum of Art\u2019s exhibition, From Homer to Hopper: Experiment and Ingenuity on American Art. Both shows feature original paintings by a similar list of artists, which explores over 100 years of Masters in the American art world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gloucester by Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), at Somerville Manning Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n

Along with paintings by N.C. Wyeth Somerville Manning Gallery features works by American impressionists, Maurice Prendergast, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir. A highlight of the exhibition is a stunning portrait by renowned Philadelphia painter, Thomas Eakins. Acclaimed artists, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer are on view along with a major work by American Modernist Jacob Lawrence. Paintings by the father of abstract expressionism, Hans Hofmann, coincide with the Post-War period in which Andrew Wyeth was exploring realism. Contemporary pieces by Jim Dine, Wolf Kahn, and Jamie Wyeth round out the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century. The exhibition includes other works from many important American schools and traditions that run the gambit from realism to abstraction. The\u00a0exhibition will be on view from\u00a0April 11 \u2013 May 27, 2017<\/p>\n

During this exhibition, we are also excited to announce that Somerville Manning Gallery will sponsor events at the Brandywine River Museum of Art to celebrate the 50th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary of the Brandywine Conservancy. To honor the amazing work that is done by the Conservancy the gallery hangs paintings in the back gallery to showcase the stunning preserved landscape of the Brandywine Valley. The exhibition, Protected Land, <\/em>was initiated by a quote from George A. \u201cFrolic\u201d Weymouth, Founder of the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art; \u201cOur aim was always to preserve the land that inspired so many artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Somerville Manning Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibitions in the gallery are accentuated by the gallery\u2019s location in the historic Brecks Mill on a Brandywine River waterfall next to Hagley Museum. Vickie Manning started Somerville Manning Gallery over 35 years ago in 1981. Her goal was to showcase\u00a0the great art from here as well as bring art of national prominence to the area. Somerville Manning Gallery specializes in original fine art from the Wyeth Family, the Howard Pyle School of Illustration, and American contemporary painters and sculptors including many artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Vickie Manning’s vision was to feature great American art from the 20th and 21st century in a beautiful setting indicative of the area and it’s history.<\/p>\n

Future shows include\u00a0Andrew Wyeth,\u00a0June 5-July 29;\u00a0Under the Influence,<\/em>\u00a0five contemporary artists and work by the Masters that inspired them,\u00a0September 15-October 6; Jon Redmond,\u00a0October 13-November 11; Greg and Jon Mort,\u00a0November 17- December 23.<\/p>\n

Vickie Manning, owner of Somerville Manning Gallery and an expert on Andrew Wyeth and Tom Padon, director of the Brandywine River Museum of Art will be guests of Lele Galer’s show on Living History Art Listen to\u00a0radio WCHE 1520 AM\u00a0June 7\u00a01-1:30\u00a0to discuss the Andrew Wyeth cross over exhibits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Our regular Art Watch columnist, Lele Galer, is getting a well deserved week off. Filling in is Vickie Manning, owner of Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE. By Vickie Manning, Special to the Times Somerville Manning Gallery is currently featuring two exhibitions at their location in Breck\u2019s Mill in Wilmington Delaware. American\u00a0Masters:\u00a0Art of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[342,6518,8760,5938],"class_list":["post-23816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment","tag-arts","tag-featured","tag-somerville-manning-gallery","tag-wyeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23819,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions\/23819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}