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Lyman Allyn Art Museum Opens Two New Whaling Exhibitions

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Lyman Allyn Art Museum Opens Two New Whaling Exhibitions

 September 10, 2013
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact:  Carrie Ermler, Director of Development
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces two new exhibitions to celebrate the year of the Charles W. Morgan.  Greasy Luck: The Whaling World of the Charles W. Morgan and Milloff’s Melville: An Artist Renders the Whale open with a reception for the public on Saturday, September 21, 2013.

Greasy Luck: The Whaling World of the Charles W. Morgan

Greasy Luck is an academic year-long exhibition designed to support the K-12 public school curriculum standards while celebrating how whaling—its myths and reality, risk and reward—left its mark on Connecticut and American identity.  Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that the academic year beginning in September 2013 will be dedicated to the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last wooden whaleship, which was recently restored by the master craftsmen of Mystic Seaport Museum. During the 2013-to-2014 academic year, Connecticut students will learn more about the state’s whaling history and its historical ties with the sea. [Read more…]

Filed Under: About Us, Press Room Tagged With: art, charlesmorgan, exhibitions, Melville, Milloff, MobyDick, mystic, mysticseaport, NewLondon, whaling

Greasy Luck: The Whaling World of the Charles W. Morgan

On view: September 22, 2013 – June 8, 2014

Harpooning a Whale, 1924, Thomas F. Petersen
Harpooning a Whale, 1924, Thomas F. Petersen

In celebration of the relaunching of the last surviving wooden whaleship, Lyman Allyn presents Greasy Luck! The Whaling World of the Charles W. Morgan. The exhibition, which runs from September 21 through June 8, 2014, will look at how whaling—its myths and reality, risk and reward—left its mark on Connecticut and American identity.

In the 1800s, friends and family gathered on the docks to wish “greasy luck” for a successful voyage to departing whaleships. To most people, whales were mysterious creatures. Yet whaling was big business. The thousands of barrels of oil the whalers brought home made ports like New London and Mystic some of the wealthiest places in the young nation, supporting a wide array of dockside occupations.

Filed Under: Past Exhibitions Tagged With: charlesmorgan, exhibitions, NewLondon, whaling

Milloff’s Melville

Stripping the Whale
Milloff, “Stripping the Whale,” 1999-2000. Pastel on paper,  84 x 50 inches

On view:  September 22, 2013 – January 5, 2014

Milloff’s Melville features 25 years of Mark Milloff’s drawings, paintings, and sculpture inspired by Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick.  A professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Milloff has long been immersed in narratives of the sea. Growing up a stone’s throw from what he describes as “the murky canals and mangrove mudflats” of South Florida, Milloff developed an insatiable curiosity about creatures of the sea. That interest eventually provoked his obsession with Moby Dick, which became a potent resource for expressing his own state of mind, as well as plumbing the American imagination past and present.

Milloff  translates Melville’s sometimes overwrought language into overheated visual dramas. The congestion of Milloff’s Fata Morgana, for instance, mirrors the great omnium gatherum of Moby Dick. Just as Melville combines chapters on art history, cetology, and metaphysics with physical comedy and grotesque humor, Milloff mixes the serious and the comic, the sublime and the mundane.  And where Melville mingles high styles and low styles, sentimental writing and Shakespearian speeches, Milloff works concurrently in several disparate idioms: representational pastels, wall sculptures, and abstract paintings.   The exhibition features examples of each of these modes, along with several of his Poontars, ingenious musical instruments which combine harpoons and guitars, each named for a harpooner aboard Ahab’s whaler.   Milloff will lecture on his work—and may even demonstrate his Poontars—on Thursday, October 3, at 6:00 pm.

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Past Exhibitions Tagged With: exhibitions, Melville, Milloff, MobyDick, whaling

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