Opening Party | Franklin Boggs: The Art of Tanning
Opening Party | Franklin Boggs: The Art of Tanning
March 15 | 2:00–4:00
Join MOWA for the opening of Franklin Boggs: The Art of Tanning on Saturday, March 15 at 2:00. This exhibition celebrates the recent museum gift of nine exceptional artworks by Franklin Boggs (1914–1999), a Regionalist painter whose style has strong affinities with John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton. Initially trained as a scene painter of rural life and farm labor, Boggs gradually shifted his subject matter to heroicized depictions of industrial labor that epitomized the postwar-era business boom.
This exhibition is generously supported by theKatherine and Thomas Hauske, Jr. Family