2015 Past Exhibits

March 17 – April 12, 2015
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 high schools in the Bartow County, Cartersville City, and Excel Christian Academy School Systems. Throughout the school year, art teachers in each of the high 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 from their school art programs.

February 14 – June 7, 2015
Special Exhibition Gallery

What is it like to be the chief White House photographer for the President? Through this exhibition, visitors were able to go behind the lens to experience the world of the White House photographers – eleven in all, since 1961 – who are both visual historians and key links between the American public and the President. This exhibit included rarely seen images from the Kennedy years to the Obama Administration.

January 29 – May 10, 2015
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

One of America’s greatest landscape painters, Clyde Aspevig seeks to capture the unique beauty of the High Plains. He also hopes viewers are motivated to help preserve the undeveloped areas of the West. Approximately 35 of the artist’s most recent works made up this exhibition.

January 6 – March 15, 2015
Borderlands Gallery

Primarily known for her expressive paintings of horses, Susan Easton Burns was the 2014 official Kentucky Derby poster artist. This exhibition showcased the full range of her subjects including paintings of wildlife, domestic animals and figures along with works on paper. Viewers also enjoyed seeing vibrant works the artist says she creates intuitively. Susan’s work provided a great setting for the ceramic animals by her daughter Julia included in the exhibition.

November 25, 2014 – May 3, 2015
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

Thom Ross has had a lifelong obsession with American History, particularly the folk heroes and martyrs whose epic stories reach legendary status. This exhibit featured 14 works based on historical events, expressed with bright colors and stylized forms. Ross believes that seeing these historical figures in this contemporary way gives new insight into both who they were and who we are.

November 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015
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 23, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

This exhibit featured approximately 70 works of art by members of American Women Artist and special guest Krystii Melaine. American Art Collector magazine recently proclaimed the members of this esteemed group as “women of distinction”, representing some of the very best painters and sculptors working today.

September 27, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Special Exhibition Gallery

This is the Booth’s signature triennial exhibition series, featuring seldom seen great works of Western art from public and private Southern collections. Included were more than 90 works of art in a range of media and styles covering over 150 years of art history. Artists represented ranged from early legends Alfred Jacob Miller and Albert Bierstadt, to modernists Robert Henri, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Robert Rauschenberg, to Georgia’s own Howard Finster, and master photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Edward S. Curtis, to contemporary standouts Bill Anton and Krystii Melaine.