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Highlights of the Ackland Art Museum Collection
Tapestry from Ackland Art Museum Chapel Hill
Mending Stockings by Archibald Motley, Jr. (1891 – 1981). Motley was a black painter who did many paintings of upper-middle class black Americans in the early 20th century. This is a painting of his grandmother.
by Charly Mann
UNC’s Ackland Art Museum provides an intimate treat for enjoying one of the best small art collections in the United States. The museum features great paintings by many of the Old Masters as well as contemporary, Asian, and African art.
Tapestry from Ackland Art Museum Chapel Hill
I have been coming to the Ackland since I was eight when the museum first opened in 1958. I have always found at least one piece of art from their continuing rotating permanent collection of more than 15,000 pieces that took my breath away. The visual arts offer an almost immediate personal connection. There is so much information in a painting including shapes, colors and their relationships, texture, and of course the story within the images. We may only be slightly conscious that an artist is communicating to us, but as we look at a piece of art it often resonates in a way that, while hard to verbalize, enriches us.
Chinese art from Ackland Art Museum collection
The Ackland is just a few steps from the corner of Franklin and Columbia Street at the heart of the hustle and bustle of our ever more congested town. It provides a relaxing alternative to the often banal and frustrating world outside. The Ackland is also free and provides more variety and stimulation than any amusement park, sporting event, or movie.
Mending Stockings by Archibald Motley, Jr. (1891 – 1981). Motley was a black painter who did many paintings of upper-middle class black Americans in the early 20th century. This is a painting of his grandmother.
A Roman Couple by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Rubens is one of the best known Flemish Baroque painters and based this painting on a carving of an ancient Roman cameo.
St. John the Evangelist by VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE (1591 – 1632), Valentin was an Italian painter. St John has just written the first sentences of his gospel on the scroll in this painting.
Breton Woman and Haystacks by ÉMILE BERNARD (1868 – 1941) Bernard was a French post-impressionist painter and a friend and influence of Paul Gauguin.
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Damocles by RICHARD WESTALL (1765 – 1836) This is a very famous painting that tells Cicero’s famous tale of Damocles. The theme of the story is that for a powerful man, there's always danger, and that happiness is fragile.
Portrait of Mélanie de Forbin-Gardanne, Marquise de Villeneuve-Flayosc by Jean-Louis Le Barbier Le Jeune a relatively obscure 18th century French painter
Comments:
Brenda Duffy
12:30 PM Fri 9/25/2009
I hate to admit it but I've lived and worked in Chapel Hill since 1993 and have never set foot in the Ackland. What is worse Spanky's at the corner of Franklin and Columbia is my favorite restaurant for lunch. You've sold me, and I'll make my first visit next week.
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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I am planning a trip to Chapel Hill in November so that my son can get a look at UNC to see if he is interested in applying, and came across Chapel Hill Memories. You do a great job promoting the school, and I have now added this museum to be part of our visit.