Regionalist and Friends Art Exhibit Comes to LCC’s Hendershot Gallery
August 1, 2024 |
Hendershot Gallery, on the campus of Labette Community College, will open its Fall 2024 season with a special exhibit entitled “Regionalists and Friends.”
The exhibit focuses on a group of artists, all Midwesterners, whose work showcases rural life in the region during the 1930s and 1940s.
Works include those by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry as well as other well-known artists Birger Sandzén and Margaret Whittemore, both native Kansans.
All the art on display is drawn from the college’s art collection but has not been shown together as a grouping.
“It’s a unique opportunity to see the relationships among these artists and their collective vision of the world around them,” notes Mike Brotherton, exhibit curator.
Other works included in the “Regionalists and Friends” exhibit include those by Parsons native Ken Riley and well-known Lawrence artist Stan Herd.
The exhibit is open to the public beginning Thursday, August 1st.
Hours are Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. each day. Hendershot Gallery is located in the Main Building, 200 South 14th Street, Parsons, Kansas.
For more information, contact Lindi Forbes, LCC Foundation Director, at 620-820-1212