Out of the Ordinary: Selections From the Bohlen Wood Art & Fusfeld Folk Art Collections December 3, 2010

This exhibition allows visitors to explore two extraordinary collections of art--the Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Collection of Wood Art and the Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection. The Bohlen collection presents an astonishing range of contemporary artworks fashioned from wood and includes works that explore traditional and non-traditional vessel forms as well as works that are more purely sculptural. The outstanding objects that make up the Fusfeld collection are both geographically and historically wide-ranging, including work by early 19th-century itinerant folk portraitists as well as late 20th-century sculpture and painting by "outsider" artists from the American South, Midwest, and Northeast.