"Bringing Natalie Home:" Opening night
WOODBURY - “Bringing Natalie Home,” an exhibition of Natalie Van Vleck’s art, will open on February 7, 2025 in the newly renovated Van Vleck Gallery in the historic Van Vleck House, 5 Church Hill Road, on the campus of Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, February 7 at 6 pm. Natalie founded the Nature Center in 1963. This is the first comprehensive exhibit of her artwork in the original farm house.
Shown will be a works of varying subject, media and periods from Natalie’s career as a visualartist. This will include works on paper as well as paintings from her early studies with portraitpainter Agnes Richmond, studies at the Art Students League with anatomy master George Bridgman, portrait painter and leader of the Ash Can School Robert Henri and pioneer of the Modern Avant Garde in America, Max Weber. Natalie’s later mature landscapes and portraits will also be included.
After many years of Natalie Van Vleck’s artwork being in storage or hung in her studio, Flanders is “bringing home” Natalie’s art to her family’s home. In 1926, Natalie, an early American modernist painter, urged her parents to buy the 1786 house and she built a studio next door in 1928.
Refreshments will be available. Members of Flanders' active art community will be present. Come learn more!