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Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection
The Becker Collection contains what was until 2009 the unexhibited and undocumented drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. These artists observed, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the laying of the trans-atlantic cable in Ireland, the Chinese in the West, the Indian wars, the Chicago fire, and numerous other aspects of nineteenth-century American culture.
These “first-hand” drawings, most of which were never published, document in lively and specific ways key developments in the history of America as it struggled to establish its national identity. The exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum will include 127 drawings from the Becker Collection.
Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher and the traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California.
Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.
Murrinis Within a Crystal Matrix: The Poetic Glassworks of Richard Ritter
Hughes Wing
On View November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Honored as a 2011 North Carolina Living Treasure, glass artist Richard Ritter is celebrated in this exhibition revealing his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Murrinis first reached a high level of sophistication in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and are still seen in the millefiori glass of Italy today.
Mark Peiser: Reflections on the Palomar Mirror
Hughes Wing
On View November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Honored as a 2011 North Carolina Living Treasure, glass artist Mark Peiser reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Peiser’s contemporary glass sculptures quote the scale and honeycomb pattern of the legendary mirror; an advancement leading astronomers to the first direct evidence of stars in distant galaxies.
Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination
Hughes Wing
On View November 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility. Penland School of Crafts located in western NC is an international leader in the evolution of craft education. Beginning in 1920 with the work of Lucy Morgan, one woman of great vision, Penland began as an educational experiment which continues today. This exhibition explores Penland then and now, featuring examples of some of the finest work in glass, ceramic, textiles, jewelry and other mediums in two- and three-dimension.
This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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