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Lightner Museum’s fall 2021 exhibitions include American art

Sheila Gibson Stoodley
Sheila Gibson Stoodley
William Francis Snow, ‘Florida Landscape,’ ca. 1930, oil on canvas. Lightner Museum collection.
William Francis Snow, ‘Florida Landscape,’ circa 1930, oil on canvas. Lightner Museum collection.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The Lightner Museum will welcome visitors this fall with several new exhibitions highlighting a diverse range of art, including a reinstallation of late-19th and early 20th century American paintings and sculpture from the museum’s permanent collection, a photography exhibition by Tom Schifanella focused on the historic motion picture magazine fragments left behind by staff at the Alcazar Hotel, and a presentation of the work of contemporary painter, Ericka Sobrack.

Ericka Sobrack: Suburban Echoes
September 3 – October 18

The final Lightner “Local” exhibition of 2021 presents Ericka Sobrack: Suburban Echoes. Sobrack’s small-scale landscape paintings focus on domestic scenes of suburban America. Shrouded in darkness, the paintings deconstruct familiar environments, creating dream-like settings that amplify feelings of anticipation, angst, and trepidation. Created to showcase the extraordinary talents of artists who live in the Northeast and Central Florida regions, Lightner Local is supported by the Benjamin and Jean Troemel Arts Foundation.

Ericka Sobrack, ‘Dwelling,’ oil on panel, 2020. Courtesy of the Lightner Museum.
Ericka Sobrack, ‘Dwelling,’ oil on panel, 2020. Courtesy of the Lightner Museum.

Picturing a Nation: American Art from the Lightner Museum
October 29 – September 30, 2022

Picturing a Nation is a major reinstallation of American paintings and sculpture from the Lightner Museum’s permanent collection. From America’s great vistas and natural wonders, to intimate scenes of St. Augustine, Picturing a Nation presents a vibrant vision of America on a local and national scale through late-19th and early 20th-century American art.

Tom Schifanella, ‘Mary Pickford,’ 2021. Courtesy of the Lightner Museum.
Tom Schifanella, ‘Mary Pickford,’ 2021. Courtesy of the Lightner Museum.

Tom Schifanella: Faces of the Alcazar
October 29 – March 7, 2022

Faces of the Alcazar presents a compelling glimpse of life behind-the-scenes at Henry Flagler’s Alcazar Hotel. Through large-format photographic prints, the exhibition documents fragmentary clippings from early-20th century motion picture magazines pasted to the walls of the Alcazar staff quarters by the immigrant staff who lived and worked at the hotel. The crumbling magazine remnants remain a haunting visual record of the dreams and aspirations of the forgotten individuals who served the wealthy visitors wintering in St. Augustine at the dawn of the 20th century.

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