Selections from the Collection

Image Credit: Elliott Daingerfield, Home and Harvest, 1884, Oil on board. BRAHM Alexander Collection.

October 25, 2014 – April 5, 2015

Since its first work of art was acquired in 2002, the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum has added works by many artists, historic and contemporary, to its growing Permanent Collection. This exhibition includes works on view by Elliott Daingerfield, Philip Moose, Andrew Wyeth, Philip Leslie Hale, Walter Schofield, William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Herb Cohen, Everett Shinn, Jose Fumero, and many others. The exhibition also features twenty-five etchings of North Carolina landmarks by Louis Orr.

Many of the represented artists found inspiration amongst the hills of our local region, while others crafted work representing stories of beauty, belief, place, and people across the rest of the state and country. These selections possess commonalities found in the details on the surface of each painting, reflections in the glass, and line work in the drawings, yet they also tell stories all their own.