The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art
On view until September 8, 2019
Michener Art Museum
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
www.michenerartmuseum.org
Featuring more than 50 works of art, The Color of the Moon is a stunning exhibition devoted to the allure of the moon for American painters from the early 1820s through the late 1960s. Highlighting works by key painters such as Thomas Cole, Norman Rockwell, and Winslow Homer, the exhibition explores the Romantic idea of the moon and its depiction in landscape paintings.
Credits:
Thomas Chambers (American, born in England, 1808-1869), Storm Tossed Frigate, 1845. Oil on canvas, 21 7/16 x 30 3/8 inches. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.
