Hoyt to show works from Butler collection

Staff report

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts will feature an exhibition of rarely seen paintings and drawings from the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art in its Main Galleries on Tuesday through Feb. 25.

Selected by guest curator Thomas G. McNickle, the exhibition represents figurative, portraiture, still life and landscape works spanning the historical, chronological and stylistic movements from Colonialism to Modernism. Among the 38 pieces selected are paintings and drawings by Edwin Austin Abbey, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Ben Kamihira, Henry Keller, Alfred Henry Maurer, Clyde Singer and William Louis Sonntag. This will be the first time many of the works have been exhibited since acquisition.

Also featured in the upper Ballroom Gallery is Faces of the World, a collection of drawings by regional artist and Hoyt instructor Richard DiGia. These sensitive portraits were completed by DiGia while doing mission work in Ukraine, Prague, Rome and the Dominican Republic.

A public reception, hosted by McNickle, will be Jan. 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. Reservations are requested but not required. Call 724-652-2882.