The 2010 Season opens with an exhibition of paintings and objects from the Maryhill Museum of Art collection, spanning 70 years since the dedication of the museum.
In May, the museum will again host the Outdoor Sculpture Invitational. The museum’s permanent collection of outdoor sculptures grew in 2007 and again in 2008. Through gifts such as these, thousands of visitors will be able to enjoy this awe-inspiring work in the gardens at Maryhill.
Later in the season the museum will present glass works by William Morris and and exhibition of engaging graphic novels and "comics".
Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, 1830–1896) Solitude, 1890. Oil on canvas. Collection of Maryhill Museum of Art.
March 15 – May 31
In celebration of Maryhill Museum of Art’s 70th anniversary, the museum presents an exhibition of 70 prime objects highlighting its legacy of collecting. Prominent among the featured items are materials acquired by four of the museum’s great founding patrons: Sam Hill, Queen Marie of Romania, modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller and San Francisco arts patron and socialite, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels.
Ellen Curley (Nuu-chah-nulth) Whaler’s Hat, c. 1900–1910. Spruce root, cedar bark and surf grasses. Gift of Samuel Hill
Maryhill Museum of Art.
May 15 – October 3
Maryhill’s Outdoor Sculpture Garden is a picturesque and contemplative setting to enjoy large-scale works in a variety of media, all created by contemporary Pacific Northwest sculptors. As part of Maryhill’s 70th Anniversary season, the sculpture garden will feature works from the museum’s permanent collection, comprising works acquired or donated by museum patrons, along with an ever-changing array of works by Oregon and Washington sculptors. Admission to the sculpture garden is always free.
Alisa Looney, Roll & Play, 2007, powder-coated, flame cut mild steel.
Purchase Gift of the North Star Foundation.
June 12 – September 6
Celebrated glass artist William Morris has created an original and fully realized world in this engaging body of work that fuses hot glass and regional landscape. Included are 38 glass vessels inspired by the flora and fauna of three Pacific Northwest microclimates: the Steens Mountain region and the Sisters area, both in Oregon, and the Cascade Mountains north of Seattle. All works are from the George R. Stroemple Collection.
William Morris (b. 1957) Glass Vessels from William Morris: Native Species Exhibition, 2004
Collection of George R. Stroemple
Photography Robert Vinnedge
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COMICS AT THE CROSSROADS: ART OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Judicial Branch: Personification of the Judicial Branch, from The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, written by Jonathan Hennessey with art by Aaron McConnell.
Published by Hill and Wang (a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Aaron McConnell. Used with permission.
September 18 – November 15, 2010
Comic books and graphic novels skillfully combine narrative artwork and descriptive prose, acting as contemporary social markers. Despite being referred to as “comics”, their subject matter is often not humorous, but addresses many of the serious issues that also appear in mainstream art.
This phenomenon is nowhere more important than in the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon and Washington have each attracted a large community of comic artists, graphic novelists and related publishers whose work has had international impact. As the comic art medium has passed a philosophical crossroads and begun moving in diverse directions, so has this region become a physical crossroads for comic production.
Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel presents the work of 30 Northwestartists who are on the vanguard of comic arts and who are pushing it into new territory.
