From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com> Subject: Mt Horeb Historium Debuts Walk-up Art Gallery - Appreciate Art in the Open Air! Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:05:21 +0000 Message-ID: <CH2PR22MB2053341A69DA174C1915BE0DA1800@CH2PR22MB2053.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
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Driftless Historium Unveils *NEW*
Walk-up Gallery
An awning-sheltered, fresh air venue for art appreciation.
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First Featured Artist is Bruce Fortney with
"Recent Landscapes of Southwest Wisconsin"
June 12 - July 13
The Driftless Historium (100 S 2nd St, Mt Horeb) invites you to experience
familiar, comforting natural views captured in oil on canvas by Boscobel-ba
sed artist Bruce Fortney.
Fortney’s “Recent Landscapes of Southwest Wisconsin” is the first ins
tallation to be featured in the Historium’s new “Walk-up Gallery,” a
pandemic-era adaptation of the museum’s Community Room. It will be viewab
le daily from the wheelchair-accessible, raised cement stoop from Friday, J
une 12 through Monday, July 13, 2020.
The Walk-up Gallery takes advantage of the 1886 Gilbertson Hardware Store
’s large plate glass storefront display windows to provide awning-shelter
ed, outdoor art appreciation.
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Bruce was born in Prairie du Chien and honed his artistry until recently in
Mineral Point. He has relocated to a new studio in Boscobel, Wisconsin.
Fortney places his artwork, large in scale and often beautifully simple in
subject matter, within the traditions of the Regionalism movement, most ass
ociated with artists Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood
who were creating from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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“I paint where I live. Paris would be a wonderful place to live and if I
did, I would paint the Eiffel Tower; but I don’t.
I live in Wisconsin. Corn, cows, landscapes; I paint what I see and underst
and.”
The work in this show will be available for sale, with 20% of proceeds dona
ted to the Driftless Historium’s preservation and education endeavors. (A
Historical Society donation box is also nearby.) Fortney is represented by
Brewery Pottery Studio (Mineral Point, WI); he can be reached by email at
BruceFortneyArt@gmail.com<mailto:BruceFortneyArt@gmail.com>.
For more information on this Walk-up Gallery event, call the Driftless Hist
orium at 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net<mailto:mthorebhistor
y@mhtc.net>.
Because we need art now more than ever.
Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
DRIFTLESS HISTORIUM
100 S 2nd St, Mount Horeb, WI 53572
(608) 437 - 6486
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