Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Beauty Beheld
On exhibition May 18, 2023 - June 30, 2023
A preeminent nineteenth-century landscape painter, George Inness once mused that an artwork’s primary end is to “awaken an emotion... [and] the true beauty of the work consists in the beauty of the sentiment or emotion which it inspires.” Half a century later, Jane Peterson echoed Inness’ conclusion that beauty is central to art when stating, “In the final analysis our only contribution down through the ages will be our record of the beauty of expression...Let the generations come to know that artistically...we tried to find beauty!”