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Colleen Schafroth, Executive Director
Maryhill Museum of Art Announces 2011 Exhibition Schedule
(GOLDENDALE, Wash., December 30, 2010) – Maryhill Museum of Art, one of the Northwest’s most enchanting cultural destinations, boasts a world-class collection with more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin, European and American paintings, objects d'art from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, unique chess sets, and a stunning collection of Native American basketry, beadwork and artifacts on permanent view. The museum also presents changing exhibitions. During the 2011 season, which runs March 15 – November 15, 2011, the following special exhibitions will be on view:
Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
On view March 15-July 4, 2011
Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft is home to more than 1,000 objects documenting the evolution of 20th-century American craft in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft features 40 of these handmade objects worked in clay, metal, wood and fiber. Among the artists featured are woodworker Sam Maloof, ceramicist Peter Voulkos, jewelry artist Ramona Solberg, glass and ceramic artist Ray Grimm, and textile artist Judith Poxson Fawkes.
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
On view May 14-October 2, 2011
Maryhill Museum of Art has presented exhibitions of outdoor sculpture annually since 1996. These exhibitions have provided Pacific Northwest sculptors with opportunities to display large scale works in an outdoor setting. In 2011, five sculptors will exhibit works to complement the 10 that comprise the museum’s permanent collection of outdoor sculpture. The sculptures will be installed throughout the museum’s sculpture garden, which provides a dramatic backdrop for this unique outdoor art experience. Among the featured artists for 2011 are Leslie Ariel, Daniel Duford, John Mayo and Joseph Warren.
Beside the Big River: Images and Art of the Mid-Columbia Indians
On view July 16-November 15, 2011
The Middle Columbia River region extends downriver nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Snake River to present-day Bonneville Dam. Celebrated for their unique stone, wood, horn and bone carvings, for basketry, and for their beadwork, the Mid-Columbia Indians who lived along this expanse of river figured prominently in the writings of 19th-century explorers and early pioneers.
During the 20th century, these same peoples were photographed by regional photographers. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, three of them—Lee Moorhouse of Pendleton, Oregon, Thomas H. Rutter of Yakima, Washington, and J.W. Thompson of Seattle, Washington—captured nearly 6,000 images of Indian life along the Middle Columbia River. They also photographed Columbia River peoples who were relocated to communities on the nearby Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla Indian Reservations.
Beside the Big River: Images and Art of the Mid-Columbia Indians presents 40 Moorhouse, Rutter and Thompson photographs of regional Indian life, and select examples of Indian art worked in a variety of mediums. Objects from Maryhill Museum of Art’s permanent collections, and from the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, the Yakima Valley Museum in Yakima, Washington, and from several private collectors are featured.
High resolution images are available for media use. To request images by email,
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Images above, left to right: Peter Voulkos, Green Swirls Vase, 1952, stoneware. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Craft, Osmon B. Stubbs Memorial Award Recipient, 1998.52.03. Peter Voulkos, Vase with Leaf, 1952, stoneware. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Craft, Gift of Rose Fenzl, 2001.10.01.Peter Voulkos, Gourd Shaped Vase, 1952, clay. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Craft, Gift of Dr. Francis J. Newton, 1998.93.47. Photo by Dan Kvitka. Sam Maloof, Double Print Rack, 1977, wood. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Craft, Contemporary Crafts Gallery Purchase, 1998.84.04. Photo by Dan Kvitka. Klikitat, Wedding Veil, c. 1875, glass and metal beads, dentalium shells, thimbles, bells and Chinese coins. Maryhill Museum of Art, 1989.13.001. J.W. Thompson, Ella Jean Billy, Mavis George, Matilda Howtopat and Mabel Shike at the Rock Creek Longhouse, c. 1955. Maryhill Museum of Art, J.W. Thompson Collection, 1997.10.2761.
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ABOUT MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART:
Housed in a glorious Beaux Arts mansion on 5,300 acres high above the Columbia River, Maryhill Museum of Art opened to the public May 13, 1940 and today remains one of the Pacific Northwest’s most enchanting cultural destinations. The museum was founded by Northwest entrepreneur and visionary Sam Hill, who purchased the property and began building the house with dreams of establishing a Quaker farming community. When that goal proved untenable, Hill was encouraged by friends Loie Fuller, Queen Marie of Romania, and Alma de Bretteville Spreckles to establish a museum.
Maryhill Museum of Art boasts a world-class permanent collection, rotating exhibitions of the highest caliber, and dynamic educational programs that provide opportunities for further exploration by visitors of all ages. On view are more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin, European and American paintings, objects d'art from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, unique chess sets, and the renowned Théâtre de la Mode, featuring small-scale mannequins attired in designer fashions of post-World War II France. Baskets of the indigenous people of North America were a collecting interest of Hill; today the museum’s Native American collection represents nearly every tradition and style in North America, with works of art from prehistoric through contemporary.
Maryhill’s Outdoor Sculpture Garden features more than a dozen large-scale works by Northwest artists. The Maryhill Overlook is a site-specific sculpture by noted Portland architect Brad Cloepfil; nearby are Lewis and Clark interpretive panels. Four miles east of Maryhill is a life-sized replica of Stonehenge, Stonehenge Memorial, which Sam Hill built to memorialize local men who perished in World War I. Nearby, the Klickitat County War Memorial honors those who have died in the service of their country since World War I.
The museum was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In 2001 the museum was listed as an official site of the National Historic Lewis and Clark Trail and in 2002 was accredited by the American Association of Museums.
VISITOR INFORMATION:
Maryhill Museum of Art is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 15 to November 15. Admission is $9 for adults, $8 for seniors, $3 for students age 7-18 and free for children 6 and under. Admission to the Stonehenge Memorial is free; it is open from 7:00 a.m. to dusk daily.
Sandwiches, salads, espresso drinks, cold beverages, and freshly baked desserts and pastries are available at Café Maryhill; the Museum Store features art and history books, jewelry, Native American crafts and other mementos.
Maryhill is located off Highway 97, 12 miles south of Goldendale, Washington. Drive times to the museum are 2 hours from Portland/Vancouver, 3.5 hours from Bend, 4 hours from Seattle, and 1.5 hours from Yakima. For further information, visit
www.maryhillmuseum.org.
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