Ansel Adams and Herman Maril Exhibits Coming to AAC

The works of two iconic American modernists — Ansel Adams and Herman Maril — are coming to the Arkansas Arts Center. For the first time, the AAC is devoting full exhibits to the artists with Herman Maril: The Strong Forms of Our Experience and Ansel Adams: Early Works, both opening on Friday, Jan. 27.

A pillar of American landscape photography, Ansel Adams captured sharp-focused, untouched Western scenery in his best known pieces. This exhibit features 41 original prints focusing on his small-scale images from the 1920s-50s.

Herman Maril, the great mid-Atlantic Modernist, is remembered most for his oil paintings, along with his works on paper. This exhibit features 90 works of oil paintings, ink and wash drawings, gouaches, watercolors and prints from Maril’s 1920s-80s career — a project seven years in the making from the AAC’s Curator of Drawings Ann Prentice Wagner.

Herman Maril: The Strong Forms of Our Experience and Ansel Adams: Early Works will be on view through April 16.

The AAC is located at 9th and Commerce, and is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information and to see a full schedule of programming surrounding these exhibits, visit the AAC website.

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Credit: Herman Maril

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