Reynolda House Museum of American Art will display sculpture from the museum's collection in a small, focused exhibition titled "Figures in Bronze: Sculpture at Reynolda." The exhibition runs through August 30, 2009 in the West Bedroom Gallery of the historic house.
Reynolda's collection of early 20th century bronze sculptures presents an exciting diversity of styles and subject matter. The deeply-carved realism of Frederic Remington's "The Rattlesnake" contrasts with the smooth surfaces and suppressed detail in Robert Aitken's nude figure, "A Thing of Beauty."
Bessie Potter Vonnoh's intimate "Family" group, on loan from Barbara Babcock Millhouse, is markedly distinct from the dramatic, mythological "Flight of Europa" by Paul Manship. Yet all of these works were completed within 25 years of one another. The exhibition explores the reasons behind the broad range of styles and stories.
This exhibition will also debut one of the museum's most recent acquisitions, Robert Aitken's "A Thing of Beauty." Donated by Winston-Salem native Richard Johnson, the piece is an elegant example of the Beaux-Arts style, a style of American sculpture previously unrepresented in the Reynolda collection. -- www.reynoldahouse.org
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