FEB 08, 2025 - JUN 08, 2025
Myth & Folly
This exhibition, featuring artwork from the Woodson’s collection, examines how the use of myth and animals in art allows for the blending of imagination and tradition.
Our Collection
Celebrating Art of the Natural World
Our collection includes more than 14,000 objects spanning historic and contemporary paintings, drawings, field sketches, graphics, photographs, sculptures, decorative arts, and glass.
A Selection of Our Collection
John James Audubon
Pacific Loons, ca. 1834
Oil on canvas
26 3/4 x 39
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Antoine-Louis Barye
Bear Climbing a Tree, Devouring an Owl, ca. 1850
Bronze
7 5/8 x 7 x 4 5/8
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Fidelia Bridges
Chickadees, Wheat, and Morning Glory, 1879
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 1/8
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Joseph Cornell
The Storm that Never Came, 1971
Mixed media on paper
9 x 12
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Hazy Afternoon, Autumn, 1873
Oil on canvas
12 x 20
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Owen J. Gromme
Whistling Swans over Dunes, ca. 1968
Oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 40
Gift of BMO Harris Bank
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
Eagle on a Rock, 1910
Bronze
11 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 12
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Andy Warhol
Rooster, ca. 1957
Ink and watercolor on paper
16 1/4 x 23
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Red-bellied Woodpeckers, 1927
Watercolor on paper
14 3/8 x 10 3/8
Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
Andrew Wyeth
Birdbath, 1994
Watercolor on rag paper
19 3/8 x 27 1/2
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Jamie Wyeth
My Chicken Transports, 1982
Mixed media on paper on board
24 x 31 1/2
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
N.C. Wyeth
The Great Blue Heron, 1942
Oil on linen
40 1/4 x 30 1/4
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Joseph Stella
Sleeping Duck, ca. 1940
Watercolor and graphite on paper
14 1/2 x 16
Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
Severin Roesen
Flowers in a Crystal Vase, ca. 1859
Oil on canvas
20 x 17
Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
Robert Burns Motherwell
Magpie, 1952
Ink on paper
27 1/2 x 22
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Martin Johnson Heade
Two Hooded Visorbearer Hummingbirds, ca. 1864-65
Oil on canvas
9 x 11
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Childe Hassam
The Haystacks, 1885
Oil on canvas
30 x 41
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation and Tribute Funds in memory of San. W. Orr, Jr.
Gaston Lachaise
Peacocks, 1992
Bronze
22 1/2 x 53 x 7 1/2
Museum purchase with Tribute Funds in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Spire and funds from the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
Bruno Liljefors
Snipe in the Marsh, 1908
Oil on canvas
30 x 39
Museum purchase with funds provided by John and Alice Woodson Forester and Lyman and Nancy Woodson Spire in honor of the Museum’s Fifteenth Anniversary
Wilhelm Kuhnert
Klaas’s Cuckoo, 1906
Oil on canvas on board
6 x 9 3/4
Museum purchase with Tribute Funds
Don Richard Eckelberry
Puerto Rican Parrots, 1973
Acrylic on J. Whatman illustration board
19 1/2 x 29 1/2
Gift of Lyman and Nancy Woodson Spire
Carl Rungius
Spaniel Dickey with Pheasant, ca. 1950
Oil on canvas board
16 x 12
Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
John Steuart Curry
Grant Wood, 1937
Pastel, colored pencil, and pencil on paper board
24 x 21 3/4
Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust
Thomas Hill
River Landscape, 1878
Oil on canvas
21 x 36
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nancy Woodson Spire Foundation
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MAR 01, 2025 - JUN 01, 2025
Gridiron Garments
This exhibition, representing a partnership between the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, chronicles the history of pro football uniform design through player-worn artifacts chosen to represent the evolution of these “gridiron garments.”
MAR 01, 2025 - JUN 01, 2025
Kimono: Garment, Canvas, & Artistic Muse
This exhibition showcases woven, dyed, painted, printed, and embroidered designs by historic Japanese textile artists alongside contemporary artworks—made in glass, paper, metal, ceramic, and other materials—from around the world, all inspired by the kimono.
