Watercolor artist Joseph “Tony” van Hasselt, 84, died at home on Jan. 20, 2022 following a difficult battle with cancer. A prolific painter, Tony left behind a voluminous body of paintings, but his proudest legacy would be the thousands of artists,.
Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to retire
Before coming to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rub served as the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 2006 to 2009. Photo: Elizabeth Leitzell.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.- Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, announced today that he plans to retire in early 2022 after thirteen years of service at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rub, who will turn 70 in early March, has led the museum since September 2009.
During his tenure, the museum has undergone a significant transformation. A major phase of the Facilities Master Plan designed by Frank Gehry, the Core Project, was completed in late spring 2021 after a decade of planning and four years of construction. Hailed as a thoughtful and nuanced response to the architectural character of the museums landmark main building, the Core Project represents the largest increas
Lucy Claire Graves McVicker was 90 when she passed quietly in her sleep on May 9. Her parents were Herbert Cornelius Graves, II and Josephine Lee Yost. She was born in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and grew up on a farm in West Chester in Allegheny County with her sister, Nancy, and her brother, Herbert. They were a close-knit family.
Lucy studied English and art, and she received her bachelor’s degree from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She married Charles Taggart McVicker in 1954. They lived first in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and then in Los Angeles, finally settling in Princeton in 1957, where Lucy lived the rest of her life.
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History will host an exhibition of watercolors by Palmyra-based artist William R. Snow from May 4 to June 29 in the Lewis Miller Art Gallery, with an outdoor meet-the-artist reception on June 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museumâs S. Pepper Street location in Christiansburg.
Born in 1947, William (Bill) Snow is a native of White Plains, New York. He also lived for many years in both Colorado and New Jersey, where he and his wife raised their two children. Having always enjoyed visits to Virginia, Bill and his wife retired to Palmyra in 2013 to be closer to his children and four grandsons. Bill has been involved in art almost his entire life. He attended the University of Arizona where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1969. Beginning his career in New York City, he went on to work in the fields of audio-visual production, advertising, and graphic design for over 40 years. During this period, he painted in watercolor in his spare time, a medi
American Citizens (to the Polls) by T.W. Wood, 1867 Passersby would not suspect that a refurbished 1950s Catholic grammar school in Montpelier contains masterful paintings from the 19th century as well as works from the 1930s Works Progress Administration. In one room on the second floor of the
Center for Arts and Learning, visitors can linger over the expressive faces and tiny details of an 1860s genre painting by Montpelier native Thomas Waterman Wood. In the next room, they can be wowed by a stylized 1937 composition of skyscrapers by Joseph Stella. (The hallway connecting the rooms contains the water fountain once used by U.S. Sen.