The Albany Museum of Art is showcasing selections from our permanent collection in the Full Spectrum Wildlife exhibition that opens on September 16, 2015 in our Evans Gallery.

The Evans Gallery is the home to their wildlife collection and was built from the gift of a local plantation owner, Raymond Evans. One of the ideas was that this gallery would attract hunters or the wives travelling with them to the area hunting plantations.

This year they are bringing more color to this exhibit. They have brought out some of their major wildlife pieces for this show, such as Ripley’s Quails in Flight, as well as a few Menaboni pieces.

Juxtaposing the traditional with the playful, included in the selections is Theodore Waddell’s whimsical Longhorn Drawing #10. Last year, Waddell was gracious enough to donate this piece to the AMA upon the conclusion of his fantastic show last summer.

Visitors are sure to feel playful curiosity in this gallery with the many contrasts and connections they can observe.
There are also two J.J. Audubon pieces, an ornithologist, naturalist and a painter, is still well known today for his academic illustrations of American wildlife during the late 1800’s.

They also have a piece by Theodore Earl Butler, an American painter who moved to Paris and befriended Claude Monet. Because of his connections to Monet and impressionist Paris of the 1880’s, his artistic style is very similar to that of Monet’s, and therefore is often mistaken for the famous French painter’s work.

The most unique piece in the collection would be the Portrait of Janet, a large scale brightly colored oil painting of a cow. This painting was a gift of the artist, Stephen Pat Brown, a realist painter who indulges in vivid color.