February 25, 2022

Maryhill Museum of Art

Maryhill Museum of Art will open for the season on March 15, 2022 with an expansive survey of contemporary Indigenous art of the last four decades. Most of the works in the exhibition Northwest/Southwest: Indigenous Art After 1980 are drawn from Maryhill's own holdings and are emblematic of the museum's commitment to collecting and exhibiting work by Indigenous American artists. The museum will also present the concurrent exhibition Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry: Silver, Turquoise, Coral, and Shell, featuring silver and turquoise jewelry by Din̩ (Navajo) and Pueblo artists. Ornithology: Avian Imagery from the Permanent Collection will showcase artworks with birds as the subject matter. Throughout the year, the museum will also present a range of exhibition-related programming either in-person or virtually, as necessitated by the pandemic. Program information can be found on the museum's website at http://www.maryhillmuseum.org. In addition to the special exhibitions mentioned above, Maryhill Museum of Art features exhibitions of more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin Рone of the largest collections in the United States РEuropean and American paintings, furnishings, personal effects and art objects from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, and a display of more than 75 chess sets from around the world. The William and Catherine Dickson Sculpture Park is home to the museum's collection of large-scale sculpture by well-known Northwest artists. Housed in a Beaux Arts mansion on 5,300 acres high above the Columbia River, Maryhill Museum of Art opened to the public May 13, 1940. The museum was founded by Northwest entrepreneur Sam Hill.