Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Winston-Salem, NC
In 2018, Reynolda House presents an art historical “rogue’s gallery” in a former bedroom of the historic house. Works by Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Gwathmey, Joseph Blackburn, and others depict the eternally fascinating figure of the outlaw. Some subjects, like Frank and Jesse James, we know by name. In other paintings, symbolic figures stand accused of murder, banditry, adultery, treason, gambling, terrorism, and forbidden love. Like Benton, these artists sought to create “something that is in the image of America and the American people of my time.” Like him, they did not shy away from portraying those Americans, brave or menacing, who transgressed the laws of the land.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Winston-Salem, NC