Lancaster Museum of Art
Abe Geasland
...moving through Time
Mixed Media and Found Objects
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Since 1965, the Lancaster Museum of Art, located in the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been a leading source for culture, and education for people living in, as well as visiting, this region.
The Lancaster Museum of Art is recognized as:
One of the largest cultural organizations in the region responsible for an extensive collection of works by contemporary regional artists.
A vital educational resource serving students and partnering with city and county schools to enhance curriculum in the visual arts.
Conservator of the historically significant 1845-46 Grubb Family Mansion
The Lancaster Museum of Art, a nonprofit community arts center, is dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts through exhibitions and educational programming.
This organization, founded in 1965 by a group of artists and community leaders, was initially located on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College and known as the Goethean Gallery. The organization relocated to a downtown location and became the Community Gallery of Lancaster County, moved in 1979 to its present location in the Grubb Mansion adjacent to Musser Park, which is owned by the City of Lancaster. The Community Gallery became the Lancaster Museum of Art in 1996. |
| The Museum provides a 4000 square foot facility for exhibitions of regional, national and international artists in a variety of media, artist's lectures, panel discussions, workshops and art classes for children and adults. The Museum recently approved as a Heritage Resource Site, is open to the public, free of charge, Monday-Saturday 10 am-4 pm and Sunday Noon-4 pm and is handicapped accessible on the first floor.
With a service region of over 250,000, the Museum attracts over 30,000 visitors every year. The Museum's variety of programs and exhibitions responds to the region's expanding and increasingly diverse audience that includes people of all ages, cultures, and educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Lancaster Museum of Art does much more than just present exhibitions of works from its permanent collection. Each year the Museum's exhibition schedule features 16 different exhibitions, offering a wide range of national, international and regional exhibitions such as children's art, juried and contemporary crafts exhibits. Traveling and temporary exhibits are a large part of the diverse schedule the Museum has to offer. |
Nicholas Joerling
Penland, NC
Teapot
Stoneware
Permanent Collection
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The Grubb Mansion
The Grubb Mansion, home of the Lancaster Museum of Art, was built as a townhouse for iron master, Clement Bates Grubb, and represents the most intact and sophisticated expression of Greek Revival style domestic architecture in Lancaster County. Grubb purchased the entire lot, now known as Musser Park, for $1500 in 1845. Excavation commenced in February of that year, and the family occupied the home in March 1846.
Although a specific architect has never been identified, the house shows complex derivations from important architectural design books of the 1830's - 40's. The mansion's great parlor features twin white marble mantels and Ionic Order pilasters that frame the windows and doors. The oval staircase, cast iron fireplace in the southeast room and Egyptian marble mantel in the southwest room on the first floor are also unusual. With a majority of comparable interiors in Philadelphia destroyed by fire, the mansion's interiors are the best remaining example between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The original two story porch was replaced with a portico in 1952. During the mid 70's the mansion briefly became the home of the Lancaster Recreation Commission. By 1979, the Community Gallery, now the Lancaster Museum of Art, made the mansion its home.
The Grubb Family patronized the most important artists of the greater Philadelphia area in the nineteenth century and owned portraits by St. Memin, Thomas Sully, and Rembrandt Peale. It is therefore fitting that today the mansion is home to the Lancaster Museum of Art, dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts through exhibition and educational programs. The museum houses both permanent and visiting collections of art by local, national and international artists.
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