Louise Herreshoff Eaton: To See Color First
September 1 - 30, 2021
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Current Season
- Minjeong An: Private Pictograph
- Locating the Law
- Daphne Arthur: Fragile Intangibilities
- Joey Fauerso: In a Classroom
- Emma Steinkraus: Pas de Deux
- Matt Eich: Sunlight, Shadow, Rainbow / Grace Notes
- 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition
- Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: This Earthen Door and The Blue of Distance
- Past Seasons
Untitled; c. 1922; watercolor on paper; 16 x 21/25 inches; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Euchlin D. Reeves Collection in memory of Mrs. Chester Green Reeves and Miss Lizzie H. Dyer, UR1967.1.32
About the Exhibition
The paintings of Louise Herreshoff vibrate with color and brushwork emblematic of European Post-Impressionists and Fauves. Almost 200 of her portraits, landscapes and still life paintings are part of Washington and Lee’s permanent art collection, a surprise find in a significant donation of ceramics that she and her husband, alumnus Euchlin Reeves ’27, gave to the university in 1967. Co-curated by Patricia Hobbs, Senior Curator of Art, Museums at W&L, and Tracy Bernabo, curator and registrar of Try-me Gallery (Richmond, VA), this exhibition highlights her bold and expressive watercolors in the first significant public display of Herreshoff’s work outside of the University’s Reeves Museum of Ceramics since 1976.
Staniar Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm during the Academic Year (unless otherwise noted for special exhibitions)