Department of Art

Welcome

Housed in the new John and Anne Wilson Hall, the Art Department offers majors in studio art and art history. The department has special accommodations for viewing its collection of over 100,000 color slides, and is currently building a database of digitized images for use in and out of the classroom. Regular exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs are held in the Stainiar Gallery.

The University possesses major art collections, including the Washington-Custis-Lee portraits, the Vincent L. Bradford collection of 19th-century American paintings, the Thomas F. Torrey, II collection of landscape paintings, the Stan Kamen collection of western art, the Sydney and Frances Lewis collection of 20th-century art, and the Jacob and Bernice Weinstein collection of modern art. In 1967 the University received 4,000 ceramic objects from Mr. and Mrs. Euchlin D. Reeves, including an important collection of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century Chinese Export porcelain. This collection and the paintings of Mrs. Reeves (Louise Herreshoff) are housed in a research and exhibition center on campus. Recent additions to the art collections of the University include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ceramics, bronzes, and jades on exhibit in the Watson Pavilion for Asian Arts which opened in 1993.

Art Resources

- Home - About the Major - Course Descriptions - Fall Course Offerings - Faculty Listing

Other Art Resources

- Gallery Schedule 2006-2007 - Student Opportunities - Art-Related Links - An Interview with Andrea Baldeck