Wynne / Wynne: The Art of Al and Lou Wynne
Thursday, October 2, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
$6.00 adults; $5.00 seniors/students/teachers; $4.00 groups; Members free.
Colorado artists Albert G. Wynne (b. 1922 in Colorado Springs) and Louise Wynne (b. 1930 in Burlington, Iowa) have been exhibiting art for over half a century. Abstract painter Al Wynne went to the University of Denver, where he studied art with Colorado artists John E. Thompson, Watson Bidwell and Vance Kirkland. He also studied at Iowa’s Wesleyan College and the University of Iowa. Al has taught art for over thirty years, from grade school to the university level.
Ceramist Lou Wynne attended Iowa Wesleyan College and later did graduate level work in ceramics, printmaking, painting and sculpture at multiple universities including the University of Iowa and on University of Colorado campuses in Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs. The pair married in 1951 and moved to Colorado Springs in the early 1960s. The Wynne’s work can be found in many collections throughout America including the private collection of General Colin Powell as well as the collection of the University of Denver and Kirkland Museum.
Wynne / Wynne will gather together the works of Al and Lou Wynne from numerous public and private collections, including the collection of the artists. This will be the first museum retrospective on either of the artists.
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City Forms
by Al Wynne
1961
oil on linen
Lustre Vase
by Lou Wynne
porcelain
January 8, 2009
colorado / abstract
This exhibition accompanies the release of the book colorado / abstract, written by Michael Paglia and Mary Chandler with a foreword by Hugh Grant. Kirkland Museum is hosting one of two local exhibitions. Kirkland Musuem explores the break from traditionalism and focuses on the historical development of Colorado abstraction. The Center for Visual Art will focus on contemporary abstractions by Colorado artists.
The Kirkland Museum exhibition will explore the evolution and the significance of abstract painting in Colorado beginning with impressionism and moving through to complete abstraction. Artists included in this exhibition are: Otto Bach, Herbert Bayer, Charles Bunnell, Mary Chenoweth, Vance Kirkland, Edward Marecak, Beverly Rosen, William Sanderson, Mel Strawn, Frank Vavra, Al Wynne, Edgar Britton, Angelo di Benedetto, Arnold Ronnebeck, Elizabeth Yanish (Shwayder), and many more.
The show will run from Thursday, January 8, 2009 through Sunday, March 8, 2009
