Greg Perry with wife Sue Jones (Right)
and Dorothy and Dexter Baker
at the 2008 Gala.
During the dog days of summer the Allentown Art Museum will present the exhibition, William Wegman: Fay, which highlights the work of this well-known artist featuring a number of his graceful Weimaraner dogs, most specifically his muse Fay Ray—a dog with true “star quality.” The show will include photographs and videos in which Fay and her offspring are shown in various contexts and poses from straightforward representations of these dogs’ athletic elegance to staged productions that illustrate historical events, folklore and amusing satires of famous personalities, and works of art.
The whimsy of some of these works does not conceal the artist’s formal aesthetic sense and his thoughtfulness about the positive spirit of art and the nature of the relationship between humans and their best friends. The photographs can be appreciated for these qualities as well as their sense of fun.
At the same time, our active roster of exhibitions will range across time showing seventeenth-century etchings based on Raphael’s frescos of mythological subjects, fine examples of the museum’s nineteenth-century hooked rug collections and a special exhibition of the work of Philadelphia artist Linda Lee Alter.
We thank our generous sponsors for enabling us to put on these exhibitions
and we thank those that attended and supported our annual gala in April when
the museum honored Dexter and Dorothy Baker and The Baker Foundation for
their great contributions to the arts, culture and higher education in Allentown
and throughout the Lehigh Valley. With support of patrons such as the Bakers
and members like you, the Allentown Art Museum will continue to bring great
works of art and offer engaging programs to our visitors. I hope to see you here
this summer to enjoy what you and many others have helped to create.
Gregory J. Perry
The Priscilla Payne Hurd Executive Director