Museum displays small-scale sculptures

HUNTINGTON -- An exhibit titled "Table Top Bronze Sculptures by Women Artists" is now on view at the Huntington Museum of Art and through May 13 in HMA's Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall.

HMA has a superb collection of small-scale, "tabletop" bronzes by American women artists working in the last decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Most of these women were contemporaries of one another. Many of them worked in a realistic style and used the lost wax casting method to depict women in various poses and attitudes. Most of these works come from the collections of Herbert Fitzpatrick, and Arthur and Ruth Dayton (The Daywood Collection). This small exhibition will provide a look at these pioneering sculptresses who at the time were working in a medium dominated by male artists.

The exhibit includes work by the following artists: Doris Porter Caesar, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Chana Orloff, Edith Bardetto Parsons, Marguerite Stix, Grace Helen Talbot, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh.

This exhibit is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and the Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.

The Huntington Museum of Art will celebrate its 60th anniversary in November 2012. HMA's hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. HMA is closed to the public on Mondays. HMA is fully accessible. For more information, visit www.hmoa.org or call 304- 529-2701.

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Art Stringer of Huntington looks through the Table Top Bronze Sculptures by Women Artists exhibit on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in the Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall at the Huntington Museum of Art.

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The Table Top Bronze Sculptures by Women Artists exhibit sets on display on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in the Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall at the Huntington Museum of Art.

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The Table Top Bronze Sculptures by Women Artists exhibit sets on display on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in the Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall at the Huntington Museum of Art.