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Statement of Purpose:

The mission of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is to enhance lives through art by providing audiences with quality art experiences through permanent collections, changing exhibitions, and education programs.

The Museum, Summer

Highlights:

The Woodson Art Museum is housed in a beautifully renovated 1931 English Tudor period Cotswold-style residence enhanced by large galleries and the 1.5 acre Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Garden. Located in a historic residential area on the east side of Wausau, Wisconsin, the Woodson offers artworks from every corner of the world to the people of north central Wisconsin and visitors to the region via diverse changing exhibitions. Best known is the internationally acclaimed Birds in Art, an annual juried exhibition that showcases a variety of artistic styles created by artists the world over and accompanied by a full-color catalogue.

Main entrance viewed from lower Terrace Garden.

Collections:

Nature takes center stage in the Woodson Art Museum’s collections through historic and contemporary bird and avian-related imagery in a variety of mediums. Highlights include an extensive collection of field studies and sketches by more than 200 contemporary artists, representative graphic works by preeminent artist-naturalists, and paintings and sculptures by an array of international contemporary artists.

Scuplture Gallery

A selection of Royal Worcester bird and floral porcelains and 19th century glass baskets, Art Nouveau and Art Deco vessels, and contemporary studio glass fill the decorative arts gallery. Outdoors, the Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Garden features a mix of collection pieces and temporary installations. Additional sculptures are attractively sited throughout the grounds and manicured gardens.

Kent Ullberg's bronze whooping cranes 
Rites of Spring,1998)
welcomes Woodson Art Museum visitors.

Exhibits:

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An active program of 8-10 changing exhibitions each year encourages frequent visitation as does an array of programs for children and adults scheduled during each exhibition.

Through November 2007

Big Red: Carved in Stone

Internationally acclaimed sculptors Jesús Moroles (Rockport, TX), Susan Falkman (Mequon, WI), and Tom Queoff (Milwaukee) transformed massive pieces of locally quarried Wausau Red Granite into works of art while in residence at the Museum during summer 2006. Three sculptors, three sculptures, and three very different interpretations allow spectators to understand the complexities of working in granite.

November 18, 2006 – January 21, 2007

From Sea to Shining Sea: A Reflection of America

Ninety-four works by 47 of this nation’s finest contemporary Realist and Impressionist painters center on life in America as depicted in landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes, and views of farms and factories. Rather than working in a vacuum, however, the artists worked en plein air in one another’s company at three locations that stretched from coast to coast: New York City and the Hudson River Valley; St. Louis and the surrounding regions along the Mississippi River in Missouri; and the Big Sur area south of Monterey, California. To form the exhibition, each artist contributed one painting from the group sessions and a second painting that revealed life in their own communities. In this way, a more representative cross-section of America – the people and the land – would be reflected.

January 27 – April 1, 2007

Living with Art: Early American Modernism

A passion for art collecting is among the themes that unites 50 two- and three-dimensional works drawn from the Heckscher Museum of Art’s Baker/Pisano Collection. Art historian and curator Ronald G. Pisano and D. Frederick Baker acquired paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts that document the vitality and symbiotic relationships within America’s art community in the first decades of the twentieth century. In Living with Art, viewers embark on a journey to discover the distinctive stories of artworks by well-known figures including Charles Demuth, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, and Georgia O’Keeffe as well as lesser-known though equally fascinating contemporaries.

January 27 – April 1, 2007

Our Art – Our Collections

Organized by Woodson curator Andrew McGivern, Our Art – Our Collections highlights the diverse interests, treasures, and obsessions of regional collectors who also enjoy living with art.

April 7 – June 10, 2007

Carousel Animals: Art in Motion

The golden age of the American carousel may have passed, but riding a fancifully painted and postured horse or other whimsically carved animal to the galloping beat of a calliope remains one of the simple joys of childhood. The young and young at heart will find this homage to art in motion to be as tantalizing as cotton candy.

June 16 – August 26, 2007

An American Story: The Wyeth Family Tradition

This diverse and dynamic exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings highlights three generations of the Wyeth family, including patriarch N. C., son Andrew, and grandson Jamie along with five siblings and in-laws, all of whom contributed significantly to realism in twentieth-century art. The legacy of this masterful family began with N.C. in the early 1900s and continues today in the bold, evocative paintings of Jamie. The close contact that this tightly knit family maintained for more than a century resulted in strong intergenerational artistic cross-pollination and the creation of an unequalled artistic legacy.

Birds in Art

September 8 – November 11, 2007

Birds in Art is the destination for anyone with a ravenous appetite for ravens, a longing for loons, or a yen for wrens. With more than 125 all-new artworks finding a cozy nesting place at the Woodson Art Museum, visitors are guaranteed bird-sightings and flights of fancy around every corner. Satisfy your hankering for herons or thirst for thrushes with this year’s gathering of avian masterpieces.

November 17, 2007 – January 20, 2008

Rivers, Sea and Shore: American Reflections on Water

Fifty dramatic paintings explore more than a century of American life on the water, including 19^th century ship portraits and seascapes, New England seaside towns, American Impressionism, and industrial and leisure images of life on the water. 

Hours:

Tuesday – Friday   9:00 a.m. –  4:00 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday  Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Open Thursdays until 7:30 p.m. during Birds in Art
Closed Monday and Holidays

Admission:

Always free admission; donations accepted.

Directions:

From Highway 39/51, take exit 192 and follow blue Art Museum signs. Free on-site parking south of building.

Key Personnel:

Kathy K. Foley, director
Marcia Theel, associate director
Andrew McGivern, curator of exhibitions
Jane Weinke, curator of collections
Jayna Hintz, curator of education, youth and family specialist
Erin Colburn, curator of education, docent and school specialist

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