At the reception, the Museum will be formally renamed the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society in recognition of Mr. Taber s generous gift to the capital campaign. The evening will also include gallery talks, champagne and hors d oeuvres, and a silent auction. The gallery s opening exhibit entitled Grand Tours and Artistic Friendships will showcase paintings and sculpture from the Park Home Collection as well as works from LCHS s art collection and the John Sloan collection. The exhibit, integrating the three collections and organized around the concept of collecting, includes traditional works of the genres of portraiture, still life, and landscape. On Saturday, the Museum will have an open house to introduce the gallery to the community.
Admission is free that day.
Board members and staff will be on hand to talk about the gallery and its exhibits from 2 until 4 p.m. Professor Roger Shipley, 1st vice president of the LCHS Board of Governors, will speak on the lithography process. The Currier and Ives exhibit features hand tinted lithographs from LCHS's John Sloan Collection. Lycoming College intern Michele Schoonbeck researched the subject and wrote the text for the exhibit last year. Originally scheduled to open in the fall of 2000, the exhibit was postponed because of renovations and construction occurring to the museum at the time.