October 27 - December 9, 2012 (Closed November 12 and 21-25)
Opening reception:  Friday, Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m.

Working Model: Figurative Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection
Carter Gallery                                         
This exhibition features figurative drawings and sculptures from the Museum's permanent collection to examine the many and varied ways artists have represented the human form from the early 20th century to the present. Approximately 18 works of art have been selected to illuminate different approaches to working from a live model.

Barbara Swan: Portraits and Still Lifes
Scudder Gallery                                                                                     
Barbara Swan (1922-2003), a well-known Boston artist whose still lifes were widely exhibited and collected beginning in the mid 1960s began her career in the late 1940s as a student of noted Boston Expressionist, Karl Zerbe. This exhibition provides a historical overview of Swan's artistic career, tracing her early work from the late 1940s, her expressive paintings as a new mother and drawings of her friends and fellow artists in the 1960s, to the subject that would dominate her later work: objects transformed through water-filled bottles.   

     
Barbara Swan images: Bottles and Keys,1985,oil on linen, 40" x 30", courtesy of Alpha Gallery; Red House, n.d.,oil on linen, 42" x 50"; Bottles and Spoons, 1973,
watercolor, 20" x 15". Collection of the Museum of Art, UNH, 1975.504