Robert Douglas Hunter (American, 1928–2014), The Chinese Bowl, c. 1958, oil on canvas 30” x 24”; Collection of Maryhill Museum of Art
Entry Level Changing Exhibitions Gallery
March 15–November 15, 2025
Exhibition Overview
Robert Douglas Hunter: Still Lifes features eleven still life compositions by American Classical Realist artist Robert Douglas Hunter (1928–2014). The museum collection has been home to five Hunter still lifes and a 2023 gift to the museum added six more. Hunter was a student of R.H. Ives Gammell from 1950–1955. Beginning in 1949, Gammell and his students — including Hunter — were featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at Maryhill Museum of Art. The museum is now home to a large collection of American Classical Realist art.
About American Classical Realism
‘American Classical Realism’ is a term coined by artist Richard Lack and his contemporaries for a group of 20th and now 21st-century artists painting in the classical European/American tradition of realism, contrasting with simultaneous modern art movements such as abstract expressionism and pop art.
Link to recent past exhibitions of American Classical Realism at Maryhill Museum of Art: A Pictorial Sequence by R. H. Ives Gammell based on “The Hound of Heaven” (2023) | Richard F. Lack: The Interior Journey (2018) | American Classical Realism (2018) | Maryhill Favorites: R.H. Ives Gammell and His Students (2014)
Robert Douglas Hunter: Still Lifes is supported by the Museum’s Annual Fund and Endowment Fund.