NEWS RELEASE
Contact:
Lori Meads, Educator
Release Date: Immediate
End Date: October 15, 2013
(252) 335-1453
Across
Three Centuries: Art from the Edwin T.
and Diana D. Hardison Collection
“Gallery
Talk”
The Museum of the Albemarle will host a “Gallery Talk” on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. Drs. Edwin T. and Diana Dixon Hardison will
provide an in-depth look at the portraits in the Museum of the Albemarle’s newest exhibit
Across
Three Centuries: Art from the Edwin T.
and Diana D. Hardison Collection.
Featuring 36 examples of fine art
from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, the exhibit encompasses works of all
types from Britain, Europe, and America--portraits, landscapes, maritime views,
scenes of everyday life, animal images, and sculpture.
Included are paintings by the
American master Gilbert Stuart, the Scottish Enlightenment portraitist Sir Henry
Raeburn, the French Belle Époque artist Theobald Chartran, British illustrators
Thomas Stothard and Hablot Knight Browne (who between them brought life to
literature classics from Defoe to Dickens), the "forgotten
Impressionist" Pierre Prins, and the marine artist Thomas Lyde Hornbrook,
a favorite of Queen Victoria. The works of many other notable artists are also
on display.
Free Family Program
For More Information
Call 252-335-1453
.
The Museum of the Albemarle
is located at 501 S. Water Street,
Elizabeth City, NC.
(252)335-1453. www.museumofthealbemarle.com. Find us on Facebook!
The
Museum of the Albemarle
is located at 501 S. Water Street,
Elizabeth City, NC. (252)335-1453.
www.museumofthealbemarle.com. Find us on Facebook! Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays, Mondays and State Holidays.
Serving Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde,
Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington counties, the
Museum is the northeast regional history museum of the North Carolina Division
of State History Museums within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the
state agency with the mission to enrich lives and communities and the vision to
harness the state’s cultural resources to build North Carolina’s social,
cultural and economic future. Information is available 24/7 at www.ncculture.com.
About The
North Carolina Department of Cultural ResourcesThe North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources (NCDCR) is the state agency with a vision to be the leader
in using the state’s cultural resources to build the social, cultural and
economic future of North Carolina.
Led by Secretary Susan W. Kluttz, NCDCR’s mission to enrich lives and
communities creates opportunities to experience excellence in the arts, history
and libraries in North Carolina
that will spark creativity, stimulate learning, preserve the state’s history
and promote the creative economy. NCDCR was the first state organization in the
nation to include all agencies for arts and culture under one umbrella.
Through arts
efforts led by the N.C. Arts Council, the N.C. Symphony and the N.C. Museum of
Art; NCDCR offers the opportunity for enriching arts education for young and
old alike and economic stimulus engines for our state’s communities. NCDCR’s
Divisions of State Archives, Historical Resources, State Historic
Sites and State History Museums
preserve, document and interpret North
Carolina’s rich cultural heritage. NCDCR’s State
Library of North Carolina is the principal library of state government and
builds the capacity of all libraries in our state; developing and supporting
access to traditional and online collections such as genealogy and resources
for the blind and physically handicapped.
NCDCR
annually serves more than 19 million people through its 27 historic sites,
seven history museums, two art museums, the nation’s first state-supported
Symphony Orchestra, the State Library, the N.C. Arts Council and the State
Archives. NCDCR champions our state’s creative industry that accounts for more
than 300,000 jobs and generates nearly $18.5 billion in revenues. For more
information, please call (919) 807-7300 or visit www.ncdcr.gov.
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