2012 Past Exhibits

November 13, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from Booth Western Art Museum work with members of the Cartersville Boys & Girls Club and the Hands of Christ After School Program to create artwork in a variety of media. This annual exhibition gathered the best works of art created during the preceding year. The young artists ranged from elementary school to high school students.

October 27, 2012 – March 10, 2013
Special Exhibition Gallery

While no single institution can assume credit for the diverse and complex associations that attach to the simple phrase the “American West,” throughout its almost 130-year history, National Geographic has published photographs that support and defy romantic notions of the land and its peoples. Wide open spaces, spectacular rock formations, and the cowboy life are examined alongside struggles for limited natural resources, Native American cultural continuity, and new energy sources. The images shown in this exhibition, a small sample from the significant holdings of the National Geographic archive, offered a broad understanding of a region that has long captivated photographers. Organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art in collaboration with the National Geographic Society and Museums West.

October 25, 2012 – February 17, 2013
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Featured art by all three famous artists in the Moyers family and a recreation of Bill’s studio featuring paintings, illustrations, saddles, sculpture and other items recently donated to the Booth Museum.

September 4 – November 11, 2012
Borderlands Gallery

This juried exhibition featured the work of photographers who are members of the Booth Photography Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational photographic programs.

June 14 – October 7, 2012
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with the support of Ann and Tom Cousins, this exhibition featured more than a dozen portraits of Southeastern Indian leaders from the early 1800s, including Cherokee, Creek and Seminole people. Inman created the paintings in the 1830s for reproduction in the landmark McKenney and Hall publication History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Also included were prints from the publication and a number of important artifacts.

May 15 – September 2, 2012
Borderlands Gallery

Harry Teague suffered two strokes in the 1990s. As a result, Harry was left with partial paralysis and brain injury. Painting became an important part of Harry’s therapy. He created a colorful “western” world that was displayed in the exhibition.

April 10 – May 13, 2012
Borderlands Gallery

Included were up to four works of art from each city and county elementary and primary school.

On Location with the Plein Air Painters of America
March 8 – August 26, 2012
Special Exhibition Gallery

To create this exhibition, organized by the Haggin Museum in California, 38 members and guests of the Plein Air Painters of America selected their favorite park and set up their easels at sites across the country. The resulting 100 paintings draw viewers into seasonal and daily experiences of color and light rendered in some of America’s most beautiful places. En plein air is French for “in the open air” and is often used to describe painters who work outdoors, on location.

January 28 – May 27, 2012
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Nearly 40 paintings exposed viewers to the full range of Tom Gilleon’s subjects, including grain elevators, Indians, horses, landscapes, and nine panel grid paintings reminiscent of Andy Warhol.

November 15, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from the Booth Western Art Museum work with members of the Cartersville Boys & Girls Club and the Hands of Christ After School Program to create artwork in a variety of media. This annual exhibition gathered the best works of art created during the preceding year. The young artists ranged from elementary school to high school students.