2017 Past Exhibits

March 14 – April 9, 2017
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 the middle and 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.

March 9 – June 11, 2017
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

This display of over 30 sculpture and large scale photographs of monumental projects around the country showed how Navarro overcame the struggles of evolving from bull rider to professional bronze artist. Tackling a wide range of subjects, the artist developed a style much sought after by committees wishing to commission a monument.

March 2 – March 30, 2017
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

The 2017 Olmsted Plein Air Invitational was a 7-day event featuring 30 of the world’s greatest collectible artists producing beautiful landscape paintings. As the most prestigious invitational Plein Air Painting competitions in the United States, the 2017 Olmsted Collectors Preview Exhibition showcased 30 paintings created by the Field of Invited Master Artists.

January 10 – March 12, 2017
Borderlands Gallery

Each January Booth Museum highlights the work of a Georgia artist whose artwork relates to the Museum’s mission, by highlighting them in a one-person exhibition. Peter Essick, a National Geographic photographer based in Stone Mountain, Georgia was the 2017 honoree. He was the first photographer to have work showcased in this series. The exhibition centered around a portfolio of 33 images from Canada’s Yoho National Park, seen in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

January 6 – March 1, 2017
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

Robert McGinnis is known as one of his generation’s greatest illustrators. Over a seven decade career, he created art for publications like Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Time, and The Saturday Evening Post and cover images for over 1,200 books, ranging in subject from detective stories and thrillers to romance novels and Western tales. He also contributed artwork for more than 40 movie posters, most notably Breakfast at Tiffany’s, many of the James Bond 007 films, the Odd Couple, and Barbarella and garnered success as a Western artist. Among the highlights in his award winning career was his 1993 election to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame and the receipt of the 2017 Booth Western Art Museum Lifetime Achievement Award.

December 15, 2016 – March 26, 2017
Special Exhibition Gallery

Including art from across his entire career, this was the first retrospective of the Western master Howard Terpning. Included were examples of his early illustrations, movie posters for major motion pictures – including The Sound of Music and Gone With the Wind – combat art from a tour with the United States Marines in Vietnam as a civilian combat artist, and nearly 40 major paintings from his fine art career.

November 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017
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 20, 2016 – February 19, 2017
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Merrill Mahaffey completed his first painting in 1950. He says he has been on a quest ever since, “chasing the sunlight across the land trying to capture the exact luminosity that makes ordinary places magical.” Known for his highly detailed paintings of rock formations, canyon walls and mines, Mahaffey contrasts light and shadow to great effect. Through nearly 30 paintings, this exhibition highlighted the best of his work over the last 20 years.

August 2, 2016 – January 5, 2017
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

In early 2016, Booth Museum Executive Director Seth Hopkins received a call from businessman Duncan Alexander, who had acquired a collection of Western art from his late business partner, Frank Harding. Duncan hoped to find a museum that would appreciate the collection and honor Harding. A quick visit to Illinois confirmed the collection had important pieces by leading contemporary artists Harry Jackson, Joe Beeler, Gordon Snidow, Tom Ryan, Robert Lougheed, and James Boren. An agreement was reached for the collection to be placed on loan, with the understanding it will be given to the Booth. The Booth Museum is fortunate to be able to share this collection with the public and grateful for the opportunity to work with Duncan Alexander to honor the spirit of Frank Harding, Cattleman and Collector.