Owen Gromme paints in his studio in 1972. A few years later he was called on to help create a wildlife art exhibit at the fledgling Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. What is now “Birds in Art” is celebrating its 50th event this year and runs through Jan. 4.
Visitors take in part of the 50th anniversary of the “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau. The exhibit features 101 works of juried art and 41 pieces from Master Wildlife Artists designated each year by the world-class museum.
“Walk on Water” is a sculpture of a purple gallinule on a set of lily pads by Green Bay artist Gary Eigenberger. The bird can be found in the marshes of the southeastern U.S. and throughout Central and South America.
In 1973, Alice Woodson Forester and her husband, John Forester, donated an English Tudor home and four-acre estate to the community and, after renovations and the addition of a two-story gallery, began filling it with art collected over the years by her mother, Leigh Yawkey Woodson, the lone child of a northern Wisconsin lumber baron. A second, two-story gallery was built in 1987, a new main entrance added in 1997 and a 9,000-square-foot addition completed in 2012.
Jessie Waldvogel of Green Bay studies a painting by United Kingdom artist Chris Lodge, who traveled to Norway and ventured 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle to study and then ultimately paint the king eider ducks seen in this painting.
Mary Ann Hoeffliger traveled 500 miles from her home in south central Illinois to Wausau for “Birds in Art.” She’s been coming every year since 1991 and was taking in a 1989 painting of Canada geese by Iowa artist Maynard Reece.
Matt Foss, director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, shows off a collection of Owen Gromme original paintings in the museum’s archives. Gromme, a Fond du Lac native, is considered one of the greatest wildlife artists of all time and helped organize the first “Birds in Art” exhibit, known in 1976 as “Birds of the Lakes, Fields and Forests.”
“Owl Pellet Studies” by San Francisco artist Thomas Hill is one of the more unusual pieces of “Birds in Art” at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau.
The artist’s “Madison Landscape,” created in 1941, is part of an exhibit on American Regionalism that opens Friday at the Madison Museum of Co…
In 1973, Alice Woodson Forester and her husband, John Forester, donated an English Tudor home and four-acre estate to the community and, after renovations and the addition of a two-story gallery, began filling it with art collected over the years by her mother, Leigh Yawkey Woodson, the lone child of a northern Wisconsin lumber baron. A second, two-story gallery was built in 1987, a new main entrance added in 1997 and a 9,000-square-foot addition completed in 2012.
Visitors take in part of the 50th anniversary of the “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau. The exhibit features 101 works of juried art and 41 pieces from Master Wildlife Artists designated each year by the world-class museum.
“Owl Pellet Studies” by San Francisco artist Thomas Hill is one of the more unusual pieces of “Birds in Art” at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau.
Jessie Waldvogel of Green Bay studies a painting by United Kingdom artist Chris Lodge, who traveled to Norway and ventured 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle to study and then ultimately paint the king eider ducks seen in this painting.
Mary Ann Hoeffliger traveled 500 miles from her home in south central Illinois to Wausau for “Birds in Art.” She’s been coming every year since 1991 and was taking in a 1989 painting of Canada geese by Iowa artist Maynard Reece.
“Walk on Water” is a sculpture of a purple gallinule on a set of lily pads by Green Bay artist Gary Eigenberger. The bird can be found in the marshes of the southeastern U.S. and throughout Central and South America.
Matt Foss, director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, shows off a collection of Owen Gromme original paintings in the museum’s archives. Gromme, a Fond du Lac native, is considered one of the greatest wildlife artists of all time and helped organize the first “Birds in Art” exhibit, known in 1976 as “Birds of the Lakes, Fields and Forests.”
Owen Gromme paints in his studio in 1972. A few years later he was called on to help create a wildlife art exhibit at the fledgling Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. What is now “Birds in Art” is celebrating its 50th event this year and runs through Jan. 4.
