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       [The following information is taken from the Ashby-Hodge website(link above)]      
Current Show

 
The Last Show: Executive Board Purchases over the last 18 Years plus New Acquisitions

January 10 - March 8, 2012

After eighteen years in its present home, The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art is preparing to move in the coming months to its new Gallery in the newly renovated Classic Hall.

In preparation for that move, the Gallery will present one more show aptly titled "The Last Show: Executive Board Purchases through the Years."

 

 
 
 

Some Previous Shows

Facing Home: Paintings and Drawings from Mississippi by James Madison Miller V," The exhibition, which also included portraits from the gallery's permanent collection, ran from Oct. 17 through Dec. 9.

 

Christopher Houghton

Lalie Cathcings Owens

 


 

 

 

 

 

"The Art of Two Sisters: Works of Ann Schafer and Jane McDaniel" opened June 13 and ran through July 22 at the gallery on the campus of Central Methodist University in Fayette. Also on display were recent acquisitions of the gallery.

Hall

Spokes

 

 


 

 

 

 

Columbia painter Stephen Rust was the featured artist at an exhibition at The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art on the campus of Central Methodist University in Fayette.
The show, titled "The Scenic Moods of Stephen Rust," opened March 23 and ran  through May 13. In addition to the Rust exhibition, the gallery is featuring photographs from its permanent collection.
Rust

 

 

 

 

 

 

Columbia native and painter Byron Smith was the  featured artist at The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art on the campus of Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo. The show, titled "Missouri Scenes of Byron Smith," opened Jan. 19 and ran through March 4.
 

      
Paintings by Byron Smith

In addition to the Smith exhibition, the gallery featured from its permanent collection "Images in Honor of Black History Month," 25 pieces of artworks by African-Americans or depicting Black American subject matter. This part of the exhibition included two paintings by renowned Black folk artist Clementine Hunter, pieces by Romare Bearden and Venetta Whitaker, and works by CMU alumnus Charles Broadus.