Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Winston-Salem, NC

336-725-5325

http://www.reynoldahouse.org/

• Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation (1/25/07)
• Self/Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close (9/6/06)
• Vanguard Collecting: American Art at Reynolda House (4/26/05)
• John Hallmark Neff appointed executive director at Reynolda House, Museum of American Art (2/11/01)
• Reading Portraits through Buttons and Bows (11/21/00)
• Woman's World, 1880-1920: from Object to Subject (7/19/00)
• Jazz: An American Muse (3/9/00)
• Winslow Homer: Early Prints and Paintings (9/11/99)
• Edward Hopper Watercolor on View at Reynolda House Community Day (3/18/99)
• Charles Burchfield Exhibition at Reynolda House Museum of American Art (9/98)

Reynolda House, Museum of American Art was the magnificent former home built in 1914-1917 by Katharine Smith and Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The country home was built on a 1,067 acre estate with a model farm and a village. Reynolda House offers the visitor the experience of enjoying American paintings in the environment of a Southern industrialist in the early twentieth century.

Visitors will enjoy the ertraordinary collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century American paintings, prints and sculpture. Works by John Singleton Copley , Gilbert Charles Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Andrew Wyeth, Jacob Lawrence, and many other famous American artists are represented in the collection.

The art has been added since its public opening in 1965. The furnishings and architecture reflect the taste of the original owners. The house centers around the elegant two-story living room (see photo below) surrounded by a cantilevered balcony. The splendid balustrade was wrought by the era's finest ironmaster, Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia. The 2,500 pipes of the Aeolian organ are concealed by Flemish tapestries on the balcony. Other collections include American Art pottery, Tiffany glass and the furnishings.

A National Historic Property, the house adjoins extensive formal gardens, and the estate's support buildings are now converted to specialty shops and restaurants.Through its strong interpretive programs geared to every educationai level and available throughout the year, Reynolda House views its permanent collection as an inearhaustible resource. The educational programs encourage participants to explore works of art in correlation with their counterparts in literature and music.

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