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Current Exhibits
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Famous Names and Places: The Marine Art of John Stobart, Roy Cross, Dusan Kadlec and Maarten Platje.
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10/04/2009 -
04/26/2010
From October 4th through March 26th, 2010, twenty-seven oil and canvas, gouache and watercolor paintings from the Burrichter/Kierlin Marine Art Museum by four of the world’s best contemporary marine artists are on display.
John Stobart, Roy Cross, Dusan Kadlec and Maatren Platje are best known for their photorealistic style, painstaking attention to detail and accuracy in rendering a variety of historical and contemporary ships and locations. Most of the scenes depict the busy sea and river ports in the growing America from 1795 to 1906. Historic seaports, such as New York, Boston, Savannah, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and Nantucket, welcome new immigrants and merchandise. Museum visitors will view ‘famous name’ ships such as Constitution, Charles W. Morgan, Mariette, Robert E. Lee, and Minnesota.
Sponsored by Schwab LLC.
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Impressionist and Hudson River School Art
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5/02/2009 -
5/2/2012
A permanent exhibit in a new expansion gallery of Impressionist and Hudson River School art. See art by French Impressionists Corot, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Signac, Sisley, Boudin and more as well as works bt Americans Homer, Childe Hassam, Bellows, Glackens and more. Nineteenth century Hudson River School and Luminsts land and seascape paintings by Cole, Cropsey, Bierstadt, Bricher, Bradford, Buttersworth, Silva and many more.
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Life on the River-Leo and Marilyn Smith Folk Art Collection
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01/14/2010 -
03/20/2010
Enjoy carved and painted wood sculptures from the museum's and artists' personal collections. The exhibit features Leo and Marilyn Smith's favorite pieces from their 40 year career. the sculptures celebrate the people, history, lore, plants and animals of the Upper Mississippi RIver region.
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The Shell Game: Clam Fishing and Pearl Button Industry
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01/21/2010 -
04/10/2010
The Shell Game tells the story of 100 years of clam fishing in the Mississippi beginning when John Boepple, a German immigrant, convinced skeptics that freshwater mussels were ideal for making buttons. Boepple's success with pearl buttons spawned factories up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries. By World War II, however, the advent of plastic buttons and depleted resources signaled the end of pearl buttons.
The end of the pearl industry did not, however, end clam fishing, as the harvest was called. Today shells are harvested and shipped to Japan, where they are cut into cubes, shaped into spheres, and inserted into oysters to form the nuclei of cultured pearls.
The mussel is an interesting creature in its own right. An understanding of their biology is essential for an appreciation of the difficulties mussels face from human interference. The exhibit highlights the unusual biology of the mussel and shows human impact on this slow-growing, slow-moving filter feeder.
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