Museum PR Announcements News and Information

Cahoon Museum of American Art presents All Hallows Eve exhibition

Cahoon Museum of American Art presents All Hallows Eve, an exhibition on view through November 4, 2012.

This exhibition looks at how artists use symbols related to Halloween and harvest time in their work. Some of the symbols viewed in this exhibition include apples, pumpkins, skulls, abandoned buildings and trees.

The history of Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve is rich especially in New England. According to many scholars the celebration incorporates traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead like the Celtic Samhain.

Artists included in the exhibition include Howard Bonington, Aaron Bohrod (1907-1922), Heather Blume, Don Cadoret, Ralph Cahoon, Jr. (1910-1982), Frank Calidonna, William Tolman Carlton (1816-1888), James Henry Daugherty (1187-1974), Lamar William Dodd (1909-1996), Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922), Jane Eccles, Karekin Goekjian, Linda Gourley, James Meikle Guy (1909-1983), Marieluise Hutchinson, Sarah K. Lamb, Susan O’Brien McLean, Mary Moquin, Charles Munro, Jan Munro, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921), Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957), Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935), Gail Turner, Dale Michael Wade, and Karol Wyckoff.

Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Road · P.O. Box 1853
Cotuit, MA 02635
Phone (508) 428-7581
fax (508) 420-3709
www.cahoonmuseum.org