Butler Institute of American Art acquires monumental Audrey Flack painting

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art, located at 524 Wick Avenue in Youngstown, has acquired a master painting by renowned American realist painter Audrey Flack (b. 1941). The painting, titled Baba, is a seven by thirteen foot acrylic on canvas painting that was begun by Flack in 1980, and completed in 1983. The large-scale work, among the largest paintings in the Butler’s holdings, was a gift to the museum’s permanent collection by art enthusiast A. Barry Hirschfeld of Colorado. Baba [...]

Exhibition featuring thirty-six artworks by renowned American artists at the Boca Raton Museum

BOCA RATON, FL.- What characterizes a “treasure” and what defines “greatness” in art? The criteria of a “treasure” – whether historical or contemporary – is decided by history. In these revisionist times, artworks, no matter how important they may have been at the time of their creation, are subject to reassessment of how we view the past. On December 13, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opens American Treasures, an exhibition featuring thirty-six artworks by renowned American artists. The exhibition offers viewers the [...]

American colorist Ronnie Landfield’s Structure and Color opens at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Ronnie Landfield: Structure and Color an exhibition of paintings by the renowned American colorist whose work is included in more than 40 museums and public collections at the Stephen Haller Gallery. Sept 8th through Oct 15th. During the nearly five decades of his career Ronnie Landfield has stayed true to his course as a painter of soaring veils of color. Louis Zona, Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, wrote: “To stand in front of a Landfield painting [...]

Photographs of Native Americans by Herbert Ascherman at the Butler Institute of American Art

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Considered by many one of this nation’s foremost living portrait photographers, Herbert Ascherman has rejected modern photographic technology, returning to the the late 19th and early 20th century platinum printing process. This Cleveland, Ohio, artist utilizes an 8 x 10 inch format, cherrywood camera that he takes on location, including places like Dubai, France and India, to create his exquisite images. This exhibition features portraits of Native Americans primarily from the Three Affiliated Tribes, as well as numerous [...]

Art Show by Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood Starts Up in Ohio

YOUNGSTOWN (AP).- Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood says he’s pleased to see his art on the walls of an Ohio gallery instead of in his crowded studio. Wood says in the studio his paintings, pen and pencil drawings and mixed-media drawings look “like postage stamps” compared to the display that opened Tuesday at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. Over the years Wood’s work has been widely exhibited The Butler Institute says the exhibition is the first for [...]

Ohio’s Butler Museum to Host Exhibition by Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art, located at 524 Wick Avenue in Youngstown, will present Ronnie Wood: Paintings, Drawings and Prints beginning September 21st, 2010. This exhibition, accompanied by a full-color catalogue, will continue through November 21st. Ronnie Wood is both a musician and an artist. His work as singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and The Faces is well-known. Lesser-known is his ability as a visual artist. Wood has been painting and drawing [...]

Butler Art Museum Receives Jackson Pollock Painting

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art, has acquired a painting by mid-twentieth century master artist, Jackson Pollock. The work, titled “Silver and Black”, measures 21.25 x 15.75 inches and was painted with oil and metallic paint in 1950. The painting, which is a gift from a Western Pennsylvania collector whose family acquired the work in 1958, is valued at two million dollars. According to Butler Director Dr. Louis Zona, “This is indeed a very special holiday present, and [...]