From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art
Organized by the Currier Museum of Art
March 6, 2010 - June 7, 2010

This exhibition features extraordinary works by such nationally known masters as Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and Andrew Wyeth.

Drawn from the impressive collection the Currier has built over its 80-year history, these watercolors have not been exhibited as a group for two decades because of the fragile nature of the medium. The exhibition includes about seventy five works that trace the history of watercolor over the last 175 years. A strong representation of work by important New Hampshire artists ranges from portraits by nineteenth-century itinerant painter Joseph H. Davis to landscapes by New Hampshire Living Treasure award winner John Hatch and abstract compositions by contemporary painter and sculptor Varujan Boghosian.

To learn more about the exhibition and to access the audio tour and on-line catalogue, please click here.

The exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Media sponsor is 95.7, WZID.

^{Image credits:  Edward Hopper, House on Middle Street (Gloucester), 1924, Museum Purchase: Gift of the Friends, 1962.14 and Winslow Homer, The North Woods (Playing Him), 1894, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Curtiss, 1960.13.}

New Hampshire Art and Artists
Organized by the Currier Museum of Art
February 11, 2010 - June 7, 2010

Since its founding 80 years ago the Currier has been committed to exhibiting and acquiring the work of New Hampshire artists. The collections are rich in examples of art that depicts the people and places of New Hampshire, many created by artists, of national and international reputations. Selected from the 1,000 art works in the collection that were created by 156 New Hampshire artists this exhibit will celebrate the state’s vibrant arts community.

The presentation will include works by painters like James Aponovich and John Hatch, furniture makers
Jon Brooks, Terry Moore, and Jere Osgood, ceramic artists Mary and Ed Scheier and Viveka and Otto
Heino. Explore the state’s cultural heritage through the Currier’s New Hampshire collections!

_{Image credits:  Terry Moore, Writing Desk and Chair, 2003, Museum Purchase: The Anna Stearns Fund and by Exchange, 2003.19a,b; Edwin and Mary Scheier, Vase, 1949, Bequest of Isadore J. and Lucille Zimmerman, 1988.7.150}