New Exhibitions Come to UNH Museum of Art

Barbara Swan painting 

Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, UNH's Museum of Art will open its newest exhibitions, "Working Model: Figurative Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection" and "Barbara Swan: Portraits and Still Lifes."

The museum will celebrate the opening of these exhibitions with a reception from 6-8 p.m.

According to the MOA website, the "Working Model: Figurative Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection"exhibition features figurative drawings and sculptures from the museum's permanent collection to "examine the many and varied ways artists have represented the human form from the early 20th century to the present."

Approximately 18 pieces of work have been selected to appear in this exhibition.

The exhibition "Barbara Swan: Portraits and Still Lifes" will feature the works of a well-known Boston artist, whose still lives were widely exhibited and collected beginning in the mid-1960s, according to the MOA website.

This exhibition will provide a historic overview of her career, from her work in the 1940s, her expressive pairings as a new mother and drawings of her friends and fellow artists in the '60s and to the subject that would dominate her later work: objects transformed through water-filled bottles.

Barbara Swan painting

These exhibitions will be on display until Dec. 9, and will be closed on Nov. 12 and Nov. 21-25.

The Museum of Art is located in the Paul Creative Arts Building at UNH.