Current Exhibitions
Range of Passion: Artists' Love Affair with the American West
The Citadelle Art Foundation announces the opening of Range of Passion: Artists' Love Affair with the American West. The exhibition will feature selections from Xiang Zhang. The show opens February 11, 2010 and will run through March.
Join us for the Opening Reception February 13, 2010 from 5-7pm for hors d'ouevres, wine, and a live harpist. Cost is $30 per couple, members are free. Reservations requested - 806.323.8899.
Previous Exhibitions
Mother and Child
From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Malouf Abraham
The Citadelle Art Foundation announces the opening of Mother and Child. The exhibition includes selections from the permanent collection of Dr. and Mrs. Malouf Abraham. The show continues through February 7, 2010.
SUPER REAL: Different Angles of Photorealism
On loan from the J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
The Citadelle Art Foundation announces the opening of SUPER REAL: Different Angles of Photorealism. The exhibition includes selections from renowned photorealists Scott Fraser, Gary Godbee, Ellen Wagener, and Dennis Wojtkiewicz. The exhibition is on loan from J Cacciola Gallery in New York, NY. The show continues through November 29, 2009
The formal opening will be October 17 with artist Ellen Wagener in attendance from 1 - 3 for a drawing demonstration and instruction for all ages. Other activities for kids will be painting on pumpkins, leaf rubbing and a gallery hunt. Following the daytime activities, Ms. Wagener will give an informal artist talk in the new gallery with complimentary wine and cheese at 6:30 - all for the price of admission!
On Saturday the 17th & Sunday the 18th, tours of the Abraham home Hill Crest will be available for an additional fee of $10. All proceeds from the tour directly benefit the Citadelle Art Foundation to support our mission. Our mission is to provide a sanctuary for all art forms celebrating life through art.
Admission is $10; 65 and older $5 and children 18 or younger are FREE. The Citadelle hours are Thursday - Saturday, 11 - 4 & Sunday 1 - 4.
J.C. Leyendecker: America's ''Other'' Illustrator Comes to Canadian
Organized by The Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
Before Norman Rockwell, there was J.C. Leyendecker - arguably the nation's most popular and successful commercial artist of the first four decades of the 20th century. The Haggin Museum's collection of more than 50 original works by Leyendecker represents the largest held by any museum and will go on display along with The Citadelle Art Foundation's three original Leyendeckers in this special exhibition. The show, arriving in Canadian, Texas on May 31, 2009, will also include more than two dozen sketches, magazine covers, advertisements and photos. Admission is only $10.00 for adults.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was born in Germany and came to Chicago as a child in 1882. He apprenticed at the Chicago engraving house of J. Manz & Company, where he advanced to a full-time position as staff artist, while attending the Chicago Art Institute. He studied in Paris for two years at Academie Julian, under the tutelage of Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. The famous neo-classical artist Adolphe Bouguereau then directed the school, and Leyendecker was considered by all three masters to be the brightest student at the Academie. Leyendecker learned, while in Paris, that a good artist could have a rewarding and lucrative career as an illustrator and decided to devote himself to that pursuit; he seldom deviated from his chosen field throughout his long career.
Between 1898 and 1918 Leyendecker created forty-eight cover paintings for COLLIER'S magazine, and in 1899 the artist executed his first SATURDAY EVENING POST cover. It was the first of the 322 covers he would produce for the magazine, more than any other artist working for the SATURDAY EVENING POST, including Norman Rockwell. His popularity was due to his ability to convey the essence of both everyday life in America and international events through paintings that reflected his unique sense of drama, romanticism, and humor. In 1905 he received his most important commission when hired by Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc., which manufactured Arrow Brand shirt collars. The ''Arrow Collar Man'', as well as the images he created for Kuppenheimer Suits and Inter-woven Socks, soon came to define the fashionable American male of the early 20th century. As part of an advertising campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Leyendecker created a series of children's images that are as winsome and winning today as when they were created more than 90 years ago.
The Gallery at The Citadelle
