Thomas Hart Benton: Part 2 - Friends and Followers, and African
Artifacts from the James and Inga King Collection
Three new exhibitions opened Jan. 25 in the Ashby-Hodge Gallery of
American Art and the Stephens Gallery/Museum at Central Methodist
College in Fayette.
Being featured in the main viewing hall of the Ashby-Hodge Gallery of
American Art, Cupples Hall, is "Thomas Hart Benton Part Two: Friends and
Followers." A continuation of the Benton and Friends exhibition featured
in the Gallery in the spring of 1999, it includes the works of some of
Benton’s well-known former students and artist friends, including
Frederick James, Charles Banks Wilson, Frederick Emmanuel Shane, Aaron
Pyle, Daniel Ralph Celentano, Roger Norman Medearis and Charles Cecil
Pollock, who was Jackson Pollock’s older brother.
The show features 40 paintings, including three new additions to the
permanent collection of the Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art.
A second exhibition, featuring African art from the James and Inga King
Collection, is being shown at the same time in the Ashby-Hodge Gallery
annex. A reception for Meredith King-Jensen, who owns the collection,
will be held in the Gallery from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 30. King-Jensen,
an assistant professor of nursing at CMC, lives in Columbia.
The two exhibitions will run from Jan. 25 through March 9. Hours will be
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Sundays. For more information about the exhibition, call (660) 248-6304
or 248-3324
