{"id":29060,"date":"2018-06-13T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=29060"},"modified":"2018-06-13T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:18:32","slug":"american-folk-art-museum-exhibition-showcases-love-science-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/american-folk-art-museum-exhibition-showcases-love-science-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"American Folk Art Museum Exhibition Showcases Love, Science, and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, June 12, 2018, the American Folk Art Museum unveiled its latest exhibition,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/charting-divine-plan-art-orra-white-hitchcock-1796-1863\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796\u20131863)<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, which will be on view through October 14, 2018,\u00a0explores the convergence of art, love, science, and religion in the extraordinary art\u00a0of\u00a0Orra White Hitchcock, one of America\u2019s first female scientific illustrators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29028\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178-320x215.jpg 320w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5178-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Married to Amherst College professor Edward Hitchcock, influenced her love for science and faith.\u00a0The exhibition traces her development from schoolgirl projects to highly accomplished renderings of the natural scenery of the Connecticut River Valley used in her husband\u2019s geology publications. Less well known are colorful paintings on cotton\u2014some more than twelve feet long\u2014that were used to illustrate her husband\u2019s many college lectures on geology, botany, zoology, and anatomy. In these, Orra White Hitchcock communicated complex scientific principles in abstract visual terms that now appear with a modern take. The exhibition features archival letters, manuscripts, diaries, and albums that highlight what Edward the scientist studied and Orra White&#8217;s interpretation through her art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29033\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5190.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5190-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5190-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SN4_5190-1024x722.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796\u20131863) on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Folk Art Museum<\/a>, June 12, 2018\u2013October 14, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>images \/\/ Stephen Smith for Art Zealous<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, June 12, 2018, the American Folk Art Museum unveiled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":29041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}