EDITOR S NOTE: This story was originally published on Aug. 23, 2021 by the Ohio History Connection. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to
NEWARK Two unique exhibits, very different from each other, can be seen indoors and outdoors at Dawes Arboretum, the nearly 2,000-acre nonprofit “living tree museum” about 35 miles east of Columbus.
Indoors, in the arboretum’s small History Center, is a collection of paintings oils and watercolors by Sala Bosworth, a 19th-century Ohio painter with family ties to the arboretum-founding Dawes family.
Outdoors are 60 kinetic wind sculptures created by Utah artist Lyman Whitaker. These graceful metal structures that employ the breezes are placed along the paved Parkwoods Trail, making for a pleasant, less-than-a-mile-long walk of discovery.
Dawes Arboretum was founded in 1929 by Bertie and Beman Dawes whose uncle, Ephraim Dawes, was married to Frances Bosworth, daughter of painter Sala Bosworth. The paintings in the exhibit were all part of the Dawes family collection.