Artwork by The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art Summer Camp Students, Ages 8 through 14

Artwork by Polk County Students, Grades K through 12

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Artwork by Polk County Students, Grades 3 through 5

For nearly two years, the paintings were under the expert care of conservators in Miami. Now, the paintings — dramatically restored — are unveiled in their new, glorious state in our newly-expanded galleries for the first time.

Considered the foremost photographer of the international jazz community, Leonard captured an era in music through his now-timeless images, and our collective memories of larger-than-life figures like Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, and Miles Davis, to name a few, have been shaped by his masterful camera lens.

For the late nineteenth century, on the cusp of the abstractive trends of the twentieth, the celebrated master sculptor was Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Rodin’s bronze sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.

— Mark Rothko, “The Romantics Were Prompted,” 1947

“Pictures must be miraculous; the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.” 

— Mark Rothko, “The Romantics Were Prompted,” 1947

From drawings and artist proof prints to intaglios, serigraphs, and even paper-based sculptures, the collection boasts works on paper from across time and around the globe that showcase the intimate hands of their artists.

In this first installation of works on long-term loan from the collection of the Woodsby family, we start appropriately at the beginning, with the rise of the Highwaymen and a focus on the two founding figures of this much-loved yet under-sung art movement, Alfred Hair and Harold Newton.

Artwork by Polk County Middle School Students, Grades 6 through 8

Artwork by Polk County Students, Grades K through 2

This Fall, visitors will get to immerse themselves not only in the beautiful 19th century world of the Netherlands but also to broaden their understanding of Impressionism in ways they never have — or could have — before.