In celebration of Hollins University’s 175th anniversary, the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum is featuring Views of Tinker Mountain by Ron Boehmer in the Ballator-Thompson Gallery, January 12 through April 30.
The exhibition showcases 14 studies of Boehmer’s oil painting, Tinker Creek, which has been on view in Hollins’ Main Building since 1991. Boehmer donated 12 of the studies to Hollins; they are now part of the Wilson Museum’s permanent collection and are being displayed for the first time alongside the finished painting. Two additional studies of Tinker Creek were recently donated to the museum by Hollins Professor Emeritus of Art Bill White.
Boehmer is recognized as one of Virginia’s foremost landscape painters. He has exhibited in more than 130 solo, group, and juried exhibitions and festivals, and is currently represented by the following galleries: Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, Virginia; Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware; and Lin-Dor Gallery, Roanoke. He has been featured in PleinAir Magazine, Lynchburg Magazine, and the books 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic by Gary Pendleton and The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History by James C. Kelly and William Rasmussen.
A lecture by the artist will be presented on Sunday, February 5, at 3 p.m. in Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center. A reception will follow.
Located in the Wetherill Visual Arts Center, the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University is open Tuesday – Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday, noon to 8 p.m. Admission is always free.
