Object of the Week: Freight Yards, by Gifford Beal
Object of the Week: Freight Yards, by Gifford Beal Posted on: 2018-03-12 09:17:10 Share: Born to a wealthy family in New York City, Gifford Beal (1879-1956) began studying painting at the age of twelve with...
Object of the Week: Helen Taylor Sketching, by John Sloan
Object of the Week: Helen Taylor Sketching, by John Sloan Posted on: 2018-03-06 13:20:06 Share: John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers before moving to New York City in 1904,...
Object of the Week: The Lonely Knight, by Coille McLaughlin Hooven
Object of the Week: The Lonely Knight, by Coille McLaughlin Hooven Posted on: 2018-02-27 10:16:30 Share: Coille McLaughlin Hooven was born into an important pottery heritage. Hooven’s great aunt Mary Louise McLaughlin was instrumental to...
Object of the Week: Black and White Jar, by Vivika and Otto Heino
Vivika and Otto Heino are one of several collaborative husband and wife teams that made a significant impact on American ceramics in the twentieth century. Vivika had extensive academic training in the medium; she studied...
Object of the Week: Large Plate, by Myrton Purkiss
Blog Object of the Week: Large Plate, by Myrton Purkiss Posted on: 2018-02-12 10:22:45 Share: Myrton Purkiss moved from Canada to the United States at age twelve, and eventually attended the University of Southern California...
Object of the Week: Buffalo Dance, by Elsie Driggs
Blog Object of the Week: Buffalo Dance, by Elsie Driggs Posted on: 2018-02-05 14:12:37 Share: Born into a family that valued fine art—her mother made many visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art while pregnant...
The Elephant Slide
Blog The Elephant Slide Posted on: 2018-02-02 10:39:22 Share: In the late summer of 1971, the Everson Museum of Art erected a life-size elephant-shaped playground slide on the grounds just east of the Museum. Designed...
Object of the Week: Ellamarie Woolley\’s No End
Over the course of her thirty-year career, Ellamarie Woolley created innovative work that significantly advanced the field of enamel arts. Woolley, along with her husband Jackson, first encountered the art of enameling through a demonstration...
Object of the Week: TR Ericsson’s Urns
The ashes of family members are literally an integral component of artist TR Ericsson’s work—he mixes the ashes with different mediums when screen-printing. As part of his current exhibition I Was Born To Bring You...
Object of the Week: Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s Scarab Vase
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Welcome to the new Everson Museum of Art Blog! This is a space for us to share information about the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, programs, and history. Every...