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Timothy H. Widener

 

Educational Background

 

MA, History of Art

Michigan State University

 

B.F.A, Painting

Michigan State University

  

 

Select list of exhibitions participating in:

 

Society Of Animal Artists, "The Art and the Animal Annual Exhibition and National Tour" , 2006,  2008, 2009
 

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, "Birds in Art", 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2005

 

Kentucky National Wildlife Exhibition 1994, 2004

 

Shiawassee Arts Center (one-man show), 2006

 

Society of Animal Artists Art and the Animal, 2006, 2008   Tour selection through December 2007 (see  for site locations)

 

Transcending Nature (one-man show, Hankins’ Gallery), 2006

 

A Sense of Place (one-man show, Hankins’ Gallery), 2007

 

Governor’s Residence Artists Program and Tour  (sponsored by the Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Michigan  July 2007-June 2008

 
Wildlife Exhibit (Lansing Art Gallery)
 

 

 

Select list of gallery and museum exhibitions participating in:

 

Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

Shiawassee Art Museum

Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, Michigan

Hankins’ Gallery, East Lansing, Michigan

The High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon

Bennington Art Museum, Bennington Vermont

Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama

Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York

Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor, Maine

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York

Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage Alaska

Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Ascension Lutheran Church (Christian Art Show), East Lansing, Michigan

Treeline Gallery, Suttons Bay, Michigan

Lilacs And Lace Victorian Summer Gallery, Mackinac Island, Michigan

 

Accolades:

 

Kentucky National Wildlife Art Exhibition, top honors 1994;

Stagg Award, 2004; Society of Animal Artists National tour, 2006, 2008, 2009 ; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum National and International tours (repeat years); Elected Master Artist by the Great Lakes Plein-air Painters Association, 2005;  Governor’s Residence Artists Program (Governor’s Selection) 2007; University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center commission (through LFA art, Cambridge, Massachusetts); 

 

 

Publications:

 

Art Collector Magazine (April 2010) Michigan Natural Resources Magazine, Lansing Business Monthly, Art News, School and University Magazine

 

 

Select list of Commissions and Collections:

 

State of Michigan (through Governor Jennifer Granholm); Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum; Shiawassee Art Museum; Kresge Art Museum; University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center (Ann Arbor); Playmaker’s (East Lansing); Novi Community Center; Ascension Lutheran Church (East Lansing); Stockbridge State Bank; Amway Corporation (Grand Rapids); Complete Birkenstock (Chicago, Ill.); Leslie Public Community; E.D.S. (Electrical Data Systems); Farhat and Story (Law Firm); Cooley Law School

 

About the Artist:   Timothy H. Widener has spent the greater part of his life working in his studio, studying art in the outdoors or within one of the world's great art institutions. Although landscapes and figurative work amount for the majority of his work, any subject may motivate the artist to create an image. Important to that creation, however, is that the intuitive emotion within the mind of the artist be realized visually on canvas. Classically taught, the artist believes fervently in the importance of plein-air based studies and life-drawings--as opposed to photographs or other mechanically created source material--to produce a work, as well as a firm grounding in the history of art and the various methods and theories put forth by past objective and non-objective masters.  Besides being a member of the prestigious Society of Animal Artists, Widener has for the past 25 years devoted his time to the study of the human form and its representation in a unique and personal manner.  He is represented in Michigan by Treeline Gallery in Sutton’s Bay and Lilac & Lace Victorian Summer Gallery, Mackinac Island.