Louise Herreshoff Eaton: To See Color First

The paintings of Louise Herreshoff Eaton vibrate with color and brushwork emblematic of European Post-Impressionists and Fauves. Almost 200 of her portraits, landscapes and still life paintings are part of Washington and Lee University's permanent art collection, a surprise find in a significant donation of ceramics that she and her husband, alumnus Euchlin Reeves '27, gave to the institution in 1967. Organized by Clover Archer, director of the Staniar Gallery, and co-curated by Patricia Hobbs, senior curator of art for the Museums at Washington and Lee, and Tracy Bernabo, curator of Try-me Gallery (Richmond, VA), this exhibition highlights Herrehoff's bold and expressive watercolors in the first significant public display of her work outside of the University's Reeves Center since 1976.