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Current Exhibits
Directions to the Gallery in Columbia.
Money, Mail and Memoria: Ephemera of the Civil War Era
Through August 31, 2013
Corridor Gallery, Columbia Research Center
Many limit discussion of Civil War art to paintings, sculptures, photographs, and fine prints. This exhibit focuses on popular imagery from more unexpected contexts. Pictures decorated currency, newspapers, sheet music, books, popular prints, and other media. Much of this neglected art of the Civil War era helps us better understand the political, social, and cultural climate of the period.
Nelly Don: Self-Made, Ready-Made
A collaboration with the Missouri Historic Costume & Textile Collection, University of Missouri
Spring 1941 Fashion
Through May 18, 2013
Main Gallery, Columbia Research Center
Mrs. Ellen Quinlan Donnelly Reed was a truly self-made American success story. In a time when most women did not own or even manage a business, she created one of the largest women’s dress companies in the United States. She began what was to become the Donnelly Garment Company in Kansas City in 1916 by designing and selling housedresses. Because of the quality and style of Donnelly’s dresses, they were often featured in the editorial fashion pages of the New York Times. As one advertisement put it: “Out in the Midwest a woman has this big American idea: to use modern factory dressmaking to give the ‘mostest of the bestest for the leastest.’”
The Missouri State Capitol in Art/Art in the Missouri State Capitol
Lester Parker Painting
June 1 through December, 2013
Main Gallery, Columbia Research Center
Jefferson City’s skyline is marked by the impressive Missouri State Capitol building officially dedicated in October 1924. A new exhibit showcases images representing the Missouri landmark as well as the building’s past and present interior décor.
Impressionist paintings by Jefferson City artist and businessman Lester Parker from the 1920s are featured, along with works by Missouri’s famed artists George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton.
Remembering Gen. Order No. 11
General Order No. 11
June 29 through December, 2013
Bingham Room, Main Gallery, Columbia Research Center
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War edict that inspired George Caleb Bingham’s painting, an exhibition of related artworks will feature John Sartain’s 1872 engraved plate, Fred Shane’s drawing of Quantrill’s raid, together with James J. Froese’s abstract interpretation of Bingham’s painting created ca. 1970.