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.

March 6, 2010 – October 10, 2010
	On Assignment: American Illustration 1850 – 1950 Classical literature, romantic best-sellers, cowboy adventures, historical fiction, frothy short stories about high society—all these and many more were the assignment of the working illustrator during a century of profound cultural change.  Illustrations captured telling moments of the written narrative, and individual illustrators were often sought out by editors and recognized by readers.
February 13, 2010 – April 25, 2010
	Faster than the Eye Can See: Photographs by Harold Edgerton A pioneer of ultra-high-speed photography, Dr. Harold Edgerton changed the way we see. His photographs stop time, allowing us to witness the moment when a drop of milk plops into a glass or a bullet passes through a playing card. Produced with his invention, the strobe light, Edgerton’s photographs are more than demonstrations of technology. These lush and colorful prints will amaze and delight viewers of all ages.
February 6, 2010 – May 16, 2010
	Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, Gurney’s Dinotopia is an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony in a society that has its own language and alphabet (dinosaur footprints that correspond to each letter of the Roman alphabet). Gurney’s stories and art fuse fantasy with realism and scientific accuracy.
February 6, 2010 – March 21, 2010 Outlooks Exhibition Series
	Women Collared for Work Women Collared for Work, part of the Museum’s Outlooks exhibition series, explores the well-known contributions and anonymous stories of women through 100 years of history—1889 through 1989. Guest Curator Judith Schwab uses “collar” as a metaphor for the restraint, inspiration, and innovation of powerful female icons representing a range of occupations.