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Current Exhibitions
Jacob Lawrence, The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1969
Jacob Lawrence: Aesop's Fables
August 3 – October 27, 2013
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is widely regarded as one of the most important African American artists of the 20th century for his paintings and prints that often portrayed African American life, culture, and history. This exhibition features 23 original drawings that Lawrence created for the 1970 Simon and Schuster publication of Aesop's Fables.
![David Roberts, [italics]El Khasnè, Petra[/italics], detail, 1842](../../images/exhibitions/2013/david_roberts.jpg)
David Roberts, El Khasnè, Petra, detail, 1842
David Roberts: Travels in the Holy Land
August 10 – December 22, 2013
Maribeth Collins Lobby
David Roberts (1796-1864) was a Scottish painter who traveled to the Near East in the late 1830s and produced a series of bound, hand-colored lithographs of Egypt and the Holy Land in the 1840s from sketches made during his travels. Lauded for their artistic merit as well as their scholarly contributions, these folios provided Europeans, and eventually Americans, with their first views of the exotic Orient, changing forever their vision of Egypt and the Middle East. This small exhibition features several of Roberts’ prints.
![[italics]Head of Gudea[/italics], Iraq, possibly from Telloh, Second Dynasty of Lagash, reign of Gudea, ca. 2144-2124 BCE, diorite, 3 ¾ x 3 ½ x 3 ½ in. (9.5 x 9 x 9 cm). University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, B16664](../../images/exhibitions/2013/breath_of_heaven.jpg)
Head of Gudea, Iraq, possibly from Telloh, Second Dynasty of Lagash, reign of Gudea, ca. 2144-2124 BCE, diorite, 3 ¾ x 3 ½ x 3 ½ in. (9.5 x 9 x 9 cm). University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, B16664
Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections
August 31 – December 22, 2013
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University is pleased to present “Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections.” This major exhibition will feature 64 ancient artworks that date from approximately 6000 BCE to 500 BCE and encompass the geographic regions of Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, Anatolia and Iran.


