Play Ball! The Art of George Sosnak
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Born in Pittsburgh in 1924, George Sosnak was a minor league umpire, baker, and corrections officer who became a self-taught artist with an obsession for the game. Using India ink, […]
Upcoming exhibitions
Julia Betts: The Dams are Broken
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In this work, Julia Betts approaches portraiture through the lens of personal possessions. She visits each subject’s home to document the objects that populate their daily lives and then translates […]
Gavin Benjamin: Gilded Glamour (Pop-Up Exhibition*)
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*This pop-up exhibition is on view during regular Museum hours May 21–27 and May 30–31 only. (Closed on May 28 and 29). Experience the bold vision of artist Gavin Benjamin […]
Clementine Hunter: As I Saw It
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Clementine Hunter was a prolific self-taught artist whose vibrant paintings depict the rhythms of daily Black life on Melrose Plantation in Louisiana. Born around 1886 or 1887 in the Jim Crow South, Hunter had little access to formal education and spent most of her […]
Hank O’Neal: Population Not Many
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In 1973, Hank O’Neal made his first trip to Maine to visit renowned photographer Berenice Abbott. After he took a photograph of her with a Polaroid SX-70 she offered to teach him her craft, but only if he got a “real camera.” […]
Current exhibitions
Current exhibitions
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