2013 Past Exhibits

November 12, 2013 – January 5, 2014
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 24, 2013 – April 13, 2014
Special Exhibition Gallery

Drawn from the collection of the world famous museum in Cody, Wyoming, Today’s West! immersed visitors in the artistic developments occurring in Western art over the past 50 years. Both paralleling and complementing the Booth’s permanent collection, artists including Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Anne Coe, Jim Bama and Carrie Ballantyne are featured. Today’s West! ran concurrently with an exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta entitled Go West!, featuring historic art from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

September 3 – November 10, 2013
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.

July 18 – December 29, 2013
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

For decades Ted Waddell has created unique and impressionistic scenes depicting the land near his homes in Montana and Idaho, creating art work based on abstractions of subject matter at hand, especially grazing animals and their habitats. This exhibition featured nearly 50 paintings, hand-made prints and sculpture based on Waddell’s personal experience on rural ranches and in urban art centers. The edgy, yet serene and animated qualities of his work have drawn rave reviews from a wide range of art fans at Modern and Western art museums nationwide.

May 14 – September 1, 2013
Borderlands Gallery

This juried exhibition featured the work of painters and sculptors who are members of the Booth Artists’ Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational artistic programs.

April 9 – May 12, 2013
Borderlands Gallery

At Booth Western Art Museum we take pride in providing a venue for emerging and talented young artists. The artwork in this exhibit was the product of students from elementary schools in the local Bartow County and Cartersville City School Systems. Throughout the school year, art teachers in each of the elementary schools expose their students to a wide variety of art mediums. For this exhibit, each art teacher selected a number of pieces representative of the work of their school art programs.

March 30 – September 29, 2013
Special Exhibition Gallery

Featuring 30 original paintings alongside The Saturday Evening Post covers they graced, the exhibit showcased a magazine that captured the heart and soul of America. The art of Norman Rockwell, John Clymer, Stevan Dohanos, John Falter, George Hughes, Amos Sewell, Richard Sargent, Mead Schaeffer and Thorton Utz embodies everyday life in post-World War II America – a time of tremendous growth and change.

March 7 – June 30, 2013
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Sculptor Dave McGary is known for his realistic and colorful depictions of Native peoples based on his many years of interaction with Native Americans eager to have the true stories of their families preserved in bronze. This exhibition featured approximately 30 sculpture of varying scale representing the best of his career.

January 8 – April 7, 2013
Borderlands Gallery

Working from a studio in Sam Booth’s home town of Statham, Georgia, Amy Watts produces colorful paintings reflecting her view of the West. An accomplished horsewoman, Watts often includes her own horses in her mosaic-like compositions that demand attention.

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.