Donald Myers ’83 has been director of the Hillstrom Museum of Art since its opening in 2000. He is also an instructor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at Gustavus.
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lent by Childs Gallery, Boston, from the Collection of Thomas S. Holman, and two landscape paintings, one lent by an art dealer in Nebraska and the other from the collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul. There will be an opening reception for the exhibitions at the Museum on Monday, September 14, 7 to 9 p.m., and another reception during the College’s Nobel Conference, on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 6 to 8 p.m. A special dance performance related to the Conference theme of addiction and choreographed by Michele Rusinko of the Department of Theatre and Dance will be presented in the Museum space during the Nobel reception. Titled This I Carry, it will be performed by alumna Amelia Ruth ’95, who was a member of the Gustavus Dance Company during her student years and now teaches dance in the Twin Cities. n
Grant Wood (1891-1942), Iowa Landscape “The Crik”, 1934, oil on board, 19 ½ x 21 ¾ inches, lent by the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Katharine G. Ordway Fund Purchase Grant Wood (1891–1942), Honorary Degree, 1937, lithograph on paper, 11 ¾ x 7 inches, Hillstrom Museum of Art purchase, with endowment acquisition funds George Bellows (1882–1925), Sunset, Shady Valley, 1922, oil on wood panel, 16 ⅜ x 24 inches, gift of the Reverend Richard L. Hillstrom
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