Delaware Art Museum

Masterpieces in Miniature November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to announce the return of its family-friendly attraction for the holidays. The Museum invited premier miniature artists from the region and beyond to produce miniatures based on existing masterpieces, using a scale in which one inch equals one foot. This exhibition offers nine miniature versions of masterpieces by luminaries such as Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper. Visitors to the Delaware Art Museum will be able to vote for their favorite miniature until the evening of Friday, December 4, 2009, when the winners will be announced.


Miniature diorama of “Fast Flew the Black Winged Horse,” c. 1895, by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) Deb Mackie (Elkton, MD) Mixed media Lent by the artist Original work of art: Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1915		Miniature diorama of “Summertime,” 1943, by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Bev Gelfand (Jackson, NJ) Mixed media Lent by the artist Original work of art: Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dora Sexton Brown, 1962



Miniature diorama of “Extorting Tribute from the Citizens,” 1905, by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) Dana Pyle, Jr. (Wilmington, DE) Mixed media Lent by the artist Original work of art: Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912		Miniature diorama of “The White Company,” c. 1922, by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) Michael Scarborough (Sunnyside, NY) Mixed media Lent by the artist Original work of art: National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI

Miniaturists and Their Masterpieces

Israel Balleto and Fridam Marley Wilmington, DE	Ethel Shariff in Chicago, 1963 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) Gordon Parks Foundation

Bev Gelfand Jackson, NJ	Summertime, 1943 Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Dora Sexton Brown, 1962

Bonnie Kincaid & Susan Ross Wilmington, DE	Distant Thunder, 1961 Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) Private collection

Marnie King Wilmington, DE	The Herring Net, 1885 Winslow Homer (1836-1910) The Art Institute of Chicago

Deb Mackie Elkton, MD	Fast Flew the Black Winged Horse, c. 1895 Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1915

Robert Off Cincinnati, OH	Absalom Jones, 1810 Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Absalom Jones School, 1971

Dana Pyle Wilmington, DE	Extorting Tribute from the Citizens, 1905 Howard Pyle (1853-1911) Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912

Michael Scarborough Sunnyside, NY	The White Company, c. 1922 N. C. Wyeth (1882- 1945) National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI

Wanda Morris Simons Newark, DE	Still Life With Fruit, c. 1865 Severin Roesen (c. 1816-1872) Delaware Art Museum, Acquired through the bequest of Miss Ellen Buckelew, 1970

Organizer & Sponsors

This exhibition was organized by the Delaware Art Museum.

In Delaware, this exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Masterpieces in Miniature

Miniaturists and Their Masterpieces

Organizer & Sponsors