Lynchburg College Permanent Collection

Urn Decorated with Birds and Flowers (82K)

The Lynchburg College art collection began some years ago when former Art Department Chair Donald Evans, used a small fund made available to him annually by President Orville W. Wake to purchase a few original prints for use as teaching aids.

From this beginning, Lynchburg College has assembled a collection that includes a group of eighty small Oriental works in jade and other precious stones (a gift of the late Jeanne Carmen Enderli Callaham), two works by Amherst County folk artist Queena Dillard Stovall, a number of works by other Virginia artists, and works on paper by American and European artists.  Other collections include works by student and alumni artists. Acquisitions are made possible through the Lauer Memorial Endowment and the Rosalie Dillard Basten Art Fund, established respectively through funding from gifts by the late Ann Lauer in memory of her husband, Henri Lauer, and from Rosalie Dillard Basten, in memory of her parents, David Hugh and Rosa van Gelder Dillard.

Queena Stovall's "Totin' Water From the Spring (76K)

Many artists and friends of the College have donated works from their collections. A major addition was the gift from Martha Randolph Daura in 1989 of 150 works by her parents, Pierre and Louise Daura.

The following are some of the Gallery's recent acquisitions to the collection:

• a collection of carved African artifacts representative of the Dogon, Yoruba, Baule, Baluba, and Bakota peoples, the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Whitehouse, Sr.;

• two signed lithographs by American artist Rockwell Kent, also the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Whitehouse, Sr.;

• "Plowing", a signed lithograph by American artist Thomas Hart Benton, again the generous gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Whitehouse, Sr.