Date: Oct. 13, 2022
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Richardson Family Art Museum, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Details:
Gallery talk: McCullum & Halsey: At Home and Abroad, Thursday, October 13, 7 p.m., Richardson Family Art Museum, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts Center.
Martha Severens will deliver a gallery talk on Thursday, October 13, at 7 p.m. An accomplished art historian, Severens served for 17 years as the curator of the Greenville County Museum of Art. "McCullum & Halsey: At Home and Abroad” will be on display in the upper gallery of the Richardson Family Art Museum until December 15. On loan from the Johnson Collection, this exhibition features paintings created by Corrie McCallum (1914–2009) and William Halsey (1915–1999). As native South Carolinians, their creative interests in modernism during the early twentieth century were inaccessible in the region’s traditionalist art programs—leading both Halsey and McCallum to study at the esteemed School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A prestigious travel fellowship for Halsey allowed the couple to experience foreign travel for the first time, arriving in Mexico in 1939.
This was the first of many sojourns taken together and oftentimes solo. Central America, Europe, North Africa, and Southeast Asia were destinations where the artists not only sketched extensively but also absorbed a region’s culture and landscape. Their travels shaped their creative output through bold palettes and experimental textures.
By necessity, their personal and professional lives were based in Charleston, South Carolina. There, they raised three children while maintaining their dedication to shaping the South’s artistic culture through modernist teachings and exhibiting their art at both regional and national venues. Over the course of the artists’ careers, Charleston served to inspire McCallum and Halsey equal to the foreign wonders of their travels.
At Home and Abroad invites viewers to experience the familiar imagery of the Carolina Lowcountry and, as noted in the pair’s 1971 published A Travel Sketchbook, the “people and places around the world” which influenced their groundbreaking careers.
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