Curator’s Corner: Marjorie & Louis
We've been featuring a lot from our latest exhibition, "Branching Out: Works in Wood from North Carolina," because it's up and installed in our galleries. We can't wait to open the museum again so you all can see it!! Hope you've been enjoying the weekly highlights of that exhibition in the meantime. (Check out our Weekly Gallery Tour posts and exhibition videos on YouTube to see more!)
That said, shifting gears a bit, we are also excited to bring you a few other new exhibitions later this summer, including one called "Marjorie & Louis." We'll keep you posted on the opening date of this exhibition, but we plan to have it up when we can open our doors to the public again!
"Marjorie & Louis" tells the story of an unlikely, yet loving marriage between two artists who spent many years together in the community of Blowing Rock, NC. The name Marjorie Daingerfield may stand out to some who are familiar with her father, Elliott Daingerfield, a well renowned early 20th century American painter. Like her father, Marjorie grew to become a professional artist, but rather than picking up a paintbrush, she became a sculptor, with bronze as her primary medium. She would spend many memorable summers in Blowing Rock alongside her second husband, Louis Lundean.
Unlike Marjorie Daingerfield, Louis Lundean is a name that few may recognize. Although Louis was born in Council Bluffs, IA where he lived a middle-class upbringing with his mother as a child. He would later adopt a Western mystique claiming he was orphaned and raised by Native Americans in the frontier West. Regardless of fact or colorful fiction, by adulthood, Louis had learned a lot about western culture.
These photographs show Marjorie Daingerfield and Louis Lundean appreciating the outdoors, which they both loved to do. We hope you're getting the chance to do the same this Earth Day!
If you'd like to learn more about "Marjorie & Louis," visit our website at www.BlowingRockMuseum.org/exhibitions.
Image Credit: Marjorie Daingerfield with her horse, Blowing Rock, NC. Private collection.
Image Credit: Marjorie Daingerfield in the mountains, Blowing Rock, NC. Private collection.
Image Credit: Louis Lundean with his dogs, location unknown. Private collection.
Image Credit: Louis Lundean painting a horse, location unknown. Private Collection.