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BACKGROUND After working in Cubist and Surrealist idioms in the 1930s and 1940s, Louise Nevelson began to create dynamic, muscular, often monumentally scaled abstract sculptures

This work prefaces a move in Hoss Haley’s career toward making work concerned with purely formal elements, focusing on math and physics. During his residency at

Through November, visitors to the Asheville Art Museum can explore Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience in its final public presentation—the last opportunity to see

This chair has made its way home, so to speak. Originally purchased new for Pack Memorial Library in the late 1950s, the Eames molded plywood

George Masa (Osaka, Japan 1881–1933 Asheville, NC) began his life in Asheville, NC in 1915 as an employee of The Grove Park Inn. He is

While scrolling through images in the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection, I came across three photographs by photographer George Tice that spoke to me. The images

I was sorting through boxes of Walter Iooss’s work in the Museum’s vault and updating their measurements in the collection management system before many of

An intimately sized painting by Dorothea Dreier, Interior with Chinese Lantern, is on view now in the SECU Collection Hall. It’s always impossible to pick

The Museum welcomes its first acquisition of an artwork by Aaron Siskind (New York, NY 1903–1991 Providence, RI), an influential American photographer with ties to

Dear friends of the Museum, It’s August, and it’s hard to believe the summer is moving so quickly! Museum educators Sharon and Kelly, along with