by The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va., is a small art museum with just a couple of exhibition rooms, yet it contains some mighty names: Winslow Homer, Gilbert Stuart, Edward Hopper, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O’Keeffe (to name just a few).
The museum dates its origins back to 1907, and its collection of prints, paintings, drawings and photographs features works by American artists from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
We went there with expectations of being able to see several works by some artists we were interested in, only to discover that the search results on their website are a bit dubious. For instance, a search for “Prendergast” returns five paintings in the museum’s collection, but you have to open each item individually and scroll down to see the if the words “on view” appear, which they didn’t for four of the results. I only realized this after the fact, so we saw quite a bit fewer paintings than anticipated.
But it was a free museum and we did see some lovely items, so there’s that. All in all, the compact collection that was on display included enough impressive work to keep us engaged in discovery for the entirety of our short visit.
