March 18, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:

Bobby Moore, Interim Curator/Registrar

(814) 472-3924

Travis Mearns, Public Relations Coordinator

(724) 238-6015

SAMA-LORETTO TO DISPLAY WORKS FROM PERMANENT COLLECTION

            Loretto – The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibition, From Charles Burchfield to Peter Adams: Watercolors and Pastels from the Permanent Collection. On view March 21 through September 14, the exhibition features nearly 60 works.

            Watercolor is valued for its transparent, fluid and luminescent properties. It is a medium that captures a fleeting moment in time because it demands spontaneity due to its lack of viscosity. Pastel combines the line of drawing with the color of painting to produce a vibrancy not readily found in other media.

            The exhibition features works by more than three dozen artists, including master pastelists and watercolorists such as Peter S. Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, David Armstrong, Adolf Dehn, Arny Karl, Theodore Lukits, Gil Dellinger, Albert Handell, Walt Kuhn, Frederick Alan Counsel, and Charles Burchfield. The exhibition will encompass movements in art such as Realism, Contemporary Romanticism, Neo-Expressionism, Abstractionism, and Surrealism.

            When SAMA first opened its doors in 1976, its permanent collection consisted of 47 paintings, sculptures and drawings and a collection of 20 etchings by John Sloan. Since that time, the collection has grown to number more than 3,000 works by some of the nation’s preeminent artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Andy Warhol, Herman Maril, Grant Wood, and Norman Rockwell.

            The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto is located on the campus of Saint Francis University. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. weekends. The Museum is open to the public free of charge. For more information, please call (814) 472-3920 or visit www.sama-art.org.