Museum

Sep8

Historic House Exhibition

Wings of Adventure: Smith Reynolds and the Flight of 898 Whiskey

Sep 8, 2007 — Dec 30, 2007

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

On September 8, 2007, Reynolda House opened Wings of Adventure: Smith Reynolds and the Flight of 898 Whiskey. The exhibition examined t...

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Feb2

Historic House Exhibition

Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum

Feb 2, 2008 — Apr 13, 2008

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

In Ancestry and Innovation:  African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum, we celebrate the enduring contribution of self-taught black ar...

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Oct4

Historic House Exhibition

Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York

Oct 4, 2008 — Jan 4, 2009

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

More than any other artist of the so-called Ashcan School, John Sloan set out to celebrate the lives of ordinary Americans.  He created a “...

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Feb28

Historic House Exhibition

American Impressions: Selections from the National Academy Museum

Feb 28, 2009 — Jun 28, 2009

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

This exhibition, from the National Academy Museum in New York, features American paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that were creat...

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Jul31

Historic House Exhibition

Heroes of Horticulture

Jul 31, 2009 — Sep 27, 2009

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

In the summer of 2007, a curatorial team from George Eastman House invited twelve photographers to photograph the sites designated by The Cultural Lan...

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Sep26

Historic House Exhibition

The Andes of Ecuador: Science and Spectacle

Sep 26, 2009 — Sep 30, 2010

West Bedroom Gallery

The Museum reinstalled Frederic Church’s The Andes of Ecuador, the largest and most ambitious painting of the artist’s early career. Prof...

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Oct31

Historic House Exhibition

Now/Then: A Journey in Collecting Contemporary Art at Wake Forest University

Oct 31, 2009 — Dec 31, 2009

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

A collection of contemporary art developed entirely by students seems at first like a radical idea. But this concept, hatched in 1962 by students and ...

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Feb13

Historic House Exhibition

William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005

Feb 13, 2010 — Jun 27, 2010

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

William Christenberry’s work records the passage of time in a Southern landscape that is both ordinary and iconic.  His photographs convey ...

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Aug13

Historic House Exhibition

Wonder and Enlightenment: Artist-Naturalists in the Early American South

Aug 13, 2011 — Feb 20, 2012

Northeast Bedroom Gallery

A spirit of exploration dominated the political and intellectual growth of the country in America’s early centuries, both before and after Indep...

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Sep18

Historic House Exhibition

Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art

Sep 18, 2010 — Dec 31, 2010

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

A child takes his first steps under the watchful eyes of his parents and grandfather. A husband struggles home in the rain from a trip to the market. ...

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