Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Hillsboro Store, the Back Door |
Artist |
Warner, Betty |
Medium |
watercolor |
Description |
Betty Warner was a WV artist who specialized in watercolor. She had solo exhibitions at the West Virginia Culture Center, the University of Charleston, Ohio State University, West Virginia State University, the College of Wooster, and many others. One of her paintings, "Amish Farmstead, Sundown," appeared in the exhibit "More than Land or Sky: Art from Appalachia" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC in 1981. In the catalogue, she stated: "I grew up on a hill overlooking my town. From my house, I could see the valley and its surrounding hills. In summer, my playground was the higher hills beyond my house where paths known only to children led through pine thickets, past small caves, and around the steep side of the hill to Face Rock, from which we could see almost the whole world. Inevitably, this is a part of what I am and what my art is. The constantly changing viewpoint of the hill dweller has, I believe, led me to expect visual surprises. . . in so many forms - a cattle-watering trough reflecting the August skies, one last fern sheltered by rocks against the coming winter, the geometry of a cluster of farm buildings, the calligraphy of a sassafras grove at the edge of a meadow. My way of thinking, seeing, and painting is affected by these hills and mountains, farms and forests, snowstorms and summer showers. In these, I find visual joys that demand to be painted." |
Collection |
Permanent Collection |
Credit line |
Gift of Dr. Constance A. Warner |