Dow centerstage at Addison Gallery of American Art exhibit, too | News

ANDOVER — Ipswich artist Arthur Welsey Dow also the topic of another special exhibit, this just one at the Addison Gallery of American Artwork at Phillips Academy, by means of July 31.

Drawn pretty much completely from the Addison’s selection, “Arthur Wesley Dow: Closest to the Divine,” explores the prodigious and multifaceted oeuvre of Ipswich artist, educator and theoretician Arthur Wesley Dow. That includes extra than 100 is effective including images, prints, drawings, paintings and ephemera, it highlights not only the elegance of Dow’s groundbreaking inventive contributions throughout media but reveals a radically anti-educational, intuitive, and inherently democratic tactic to artmaking.

For generations of artwork pupils in his classroom, notably Ga O’Keeffe, and through his influential publication “Composition,” Dow’s tactic encourages college students to transcend faithful representation and channel emotion and particular eyesight as a result of a common “trinity of power” inherent in harmonious design—line, notan (the harmony of dark and mild) and colour.

It was arranged by the Addison’s Robert M. Walker Associate Curator of American Artwork Gordon Wilkins and incorporates photographs, prints, and paintings by the influential artist and educator, who instructed O’Keeffe throughout her time at Instructors Higher education, Columbia University.

On exhibit is Dow’s operate and the ephemera he gathered on his global travels, most considerably to Japan, as properly as his groundbreaking theories of composition that had a profound, lifelong affect on O’Keeffe. Dow’s mystical technique to artmaking is evidenced in the is effective on look at and was a transformative power in O’Keeffe’s inventive observe through her everyday living.

The Addison Gallery of American Art is located on the campus of Phillips Academy at the corner of Route 28 (Most important Road) and Chapel Avenue in Andover. The museum is free of charge and open to the community. The Addison’s galleries are wheelchair accessible and open up Tuesdays by Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.