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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.