Curatorial-Led Tour

Friday, July 23, 2010

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Free with Membership or Museum Admission

The Museum presents lunchtime art breaks, a series of gallery talks and presentation designed to inform and engage you in dialogue with members of our curatorial and education departments, docents and special guests. Join us for a special tour highlighting Asheville artists in the Permanent Collection. 

In the current installation of the permanent collection, Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum, four members of the Museum staff took the opportunity to delve into the Museum's permanent collection and selected artworks that related to four themes.

In January 2010, Museum staff took down some of the more delicate works to allow them to rest and replaced them with new objects that related to the four exhibition categories. Some of the new artists featured in Looking Back are: Margaret Bourke-White, Louis Comfort Tiffany, James A.M. Whistler, Steven Seinberg and Robert Yarber.

Looking Back celebrates the Asheville Art Museum's collection of American art of the 20th and 21st centuries and highlights some of the Museum's works by Southeastern and Western North Carolina artists. It also celebrates the generosity of collectors and community supporters who have supported the growth of the permanent collection over the past 60 years.

This exhibition was organized and curated by the Asheville Art Museum.

Image: Steven Seinberg, Waiting, 2008, oil paint and graphite on canvas, 58.25 x 46 inches. Gift of the Artist. 2009.19.20