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Current Exhibitions
The Delaware Art Museum regularly presents major traveling exhibitions, offering the community an opportunity to become familiar with a wide variety of artists and artistic movements. The Museum also displays smaller exhibitions, often assembled from its permanent collection, to complement larger shows or to bring select works to light.
| November 22, 2008 – February 1, 2009 |
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Frank E. Schoonover: An Artist for All Seasons
Frank E. Schoonover was a prolific American illustrator during the “Golden Age of Illustration,” the early 20th century. This overview of his extensive career is mounted to celebrate the publication of a catalogue raisonné of the illustrator’s work, published by Oak Knoll Press and the Frank E. Schoonover Fund, Inc. |
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| November 1, 2008 – January 11, 2009 |
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Masterpieces in Miniature
The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to announce the return of its family-friendly attraction for the holidays. The Museum has again invited premier miniature artists from the region to produce miniatures based on an existing masterpiece. Each of the imaginative installations will be inspired by a masterpiece of art, many from the Museum’s own collections. |
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| November 1, 2008 – February 8, 2009 |
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The Invented Worlds of Alida Fish
A seahorse, a headless woman, and statues that have come to life: photographer Alida Fish has created a universe filled with remarkable things. While many photographers take their subjects from the world around them, Fish imagines her own worlds, and uses traditional, historic, and digital processes to bring to life her amazing visions. |
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| October 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009 |
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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, documented crime and poverty, as well as its opposite—glamour. The first African American staff photographer for Life magazine, Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States. He was also a major fashion photographer, providing spreads for respected magazines such as Vogue. |
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