• Queena Stovall's "Totin' Water From the Spring"

Lynchburg College Permanent Collection

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, as well as several 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.

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.

Recent acquisitions to the collection:

• John E. Moon, Transcendence-Series I, #10
  Montage/collage on paper, 2009
  Gift of the artist

• Melissa Polhamus, Clapping Moon; Fanfare
  Watercolor and ink on paper, 1990s
  Gift of Ellin and Baron '53 Gordon

• Epps Perrow, Shell & Bottle #19 (oil); Shell & Bottle #18 (oil), Shell & Bottle (18 studies)
  Gift of Edgar J.T. Perrow and Kirk Perrow

• Pierre Daura, St. Cirq Coife
  Oil on canvas, undated
  Gift of Martha R. Daura

• Pierre Daura, X-Mas Lights, Lonely Nights
  Oil on masonite, 1953
  Gift of Dr. F.R. Whitehouse

• Pierre Daura, Portrait of a Young Girl in Orange
  Oil on canvas, ca. 1935
  Daura Gallery Purchase