Springfield Art Museum

Thank you Ozarks Independent for this coverage of one of our new special exhibitions opening this weekend. "Afloat: Artists and Rivers" features 40 works from our permanent collection that focus on the importance of Missouri's waterways as a source of artistic inspiration, as well as a vital natural resources. If you love beautiful waterscapes, this is the show for you! Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

We are getting in the Halloween spirit by sharing works with a spooky vibe currently on display in our galleries. Today: a skull marks the spot! "Nothing on the face of the earth has a more forbidding beauty than a cypress swamp." - Thomas Hart Benton. Currently on view in "Creating an American Identity. Credit (image & detail): Thomas Hart Benton, "Swampland, from the Swamp Water Series," 1941, Lithograph on paper. Collection of the Springfield Art Museum.

Check out the photo album for our latest special exhibition, a traveling show of self-portraits from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. This exhibition examines how artists in the United States have chosen to portray themselves since the beginning of the 20th century. Through painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and video, these artists raise important questions about self-perception and self-representation. The exhibition includes 58 self-portraits by art...ists such as Robert Arneson, Alexander Calder, Lois Dodd, Deborah Kass, Elaine de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, Irving Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Fritz Scholder, Roger Shimomura, Edward Steichen, and many more. The exhibition was curated by Brandon Brame Fortune, Chief Curator Emerita at the National Portrait Gallery. Open through January 17, 2021. Free admission. Please remember to wear your face mask. Photo credits: Andie Bottrell, Designing Indie

One weekend, four exhibitions at YOUR Art Museum! See "Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery," "Creating an American Identity," "Afloat: Artists and Rivers," and "the interference structure provides" starting today, Saturday, December 12. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

Have you seen Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery yet? This stunning exhibition from the nation’s art collection focuses on how artists have chosen to portray themselves and examines important concepts like identity and self-representation and perception. See it in our galleries through January 17. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

Just in time for the presidential election season, check out "This & That: Cartoons by Bob Palmer," featuring 150 editorial cartoons dealing with issues ranging from global politics to hyper-local Springfield issues. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask. Image Credit: Bob Palmer, "Luck for us it's way over there!," February 20, 1979, pen and ink on paper. Gift of the Palmer family. Collection of the Springfield Art Museum. Published in the Springfield Leader and Press (later Springfield News-Leader). Estate of Robert Bob Palmer.

"Watercolor USA 2021" will mark the 60th annual exhibition of the very best in contemporary American watermedia. View the Prospectus & FAQs now, review the 2020 exhibition, and mark your calendars for the Monday, January 4, 2021 entry portal launch date! https://www.sgfmuseum.org/246/Watercolor-USA

Happy Monday! Just in time for the presidential election season, check out "This & That: Cartoons by Bob Palmer," featuring 150 editorial cartoons dealing with issues ranging from global politics to hyper-local Springfield issues. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask. Image Credit: Bob Palmer, "I keep getting this urge to self-destruct!," October 1, 1981, pen and ink on paper. Gift of the Palmer family. Collection of the Springfield Art Museum. Published in the Springfield Leader and Press (later Springfield News-Leader). Estate of Robert Bob Palmer.

"The exhibit which runs through Jan. 17 overlaps "This and That: Cartoons by Bob Palmer," late editorial cartoonist for the News-Leader. Museum Director Nick Nelson says the overlap was intentional. The editorial cartoons examine who we are collectively, while the self-portraits show how we have seen ourselves over time. 'This is going to be a really exciting exhibit,' Nelson says. 'I think both of these shows are about literally and figuratively holding a mirror up to ourselves." - Jan Peterson, Springfield News-Leader

"the interference structure provides" is taking shape in our Kelly Gallery. See this exhibition focused on systems imposed on art-making beginning Dec. 12. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

Photo credit: Andie Bottrell, Designing Indie

"Afloat: Artists and Rivers" is taking shape in our Weisel Gallery. See this special exhibition focused on Missouri's waterways beginning Dec. 12. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

"Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery" is open now! Check out this photo gallery from the Springfield News-Leader, and make plans to see this incredible traveling exhibition soon! Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.

"Self-portraits in general are always fascinating, especially now when everyone takes selfies and is a self-portraitist anyway,' says Sarah Buhr, the museum’s curator, who worked with the Smithsonian to bring the nationally touring exhibit to Springfield... 'We’re excited because there are a lot of works in the exhibit that we could never show, or they’re self-portraits of artists we have in our collection,' Buhr says. 'It seemed like a really great fit to augment our collection." - Jan Peterson, Springfield News-Leader "Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery" opens tomorrow, Saturday, October 24 at 10 AM. Free and open to the public. Please remember to wear your face mask.