Previous Exhibitions
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection
September 17, 2011 – January 15, 2012
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle, County Durham, ENGLAND
Accompanied by an illustrated, English language catalogue published by the Ackland Museum (University of North Carolina). The Bowes Museum was the first stop of a multi-country European tour that was organized and circulated by Art-In-Industry.com.
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection
October 19, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Palmer Museum of Art
Pennsylvania State University
This exhibition’s wide artistic range included eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American, English and French landscapes, and post-impressionist images from the golden age of French printmaking in the 1890s. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, the Heart of Progress was organized and circulated by the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with funding provided by the William Hayes Ackland Trust.
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection
January 22 – March 21, 2010
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College
Organized by the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this exhibition surveyed the Faustian bargain between humanity and carbon. Though coal, iron, and steam support industrial civilization, their enormous benefits are counterbalanced by similarly enormous tolls. The exhibition of seventy prints, five books, and one children’s toy focused on several themes, including mining, iron and steel-making, smokestack landscapes, and images of laborers.
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection
January 24 – May 17, 2009
Ackland Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Ackland celebrated its fifitieth anniversary year with this special exhibition drawn from one of the most extensive private collections of prints and posters associated with industry and labor. Included were approximately seventy-five pieces selected from the collection of Dr. John P. Eckblad, exploring the world of coal production and consumption, featuring such artists as Camille Pissarro, Theophile Steinlen, Constantin Meunier, Joseph Pennell, C. R. W. Nevinson, and Craig McPherson, as well as a wealth of commercial and documentary imagery.
Identity and Difference in 19th Century Art
August 27, 1995 – January 14, 1996
Ackland Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The installation, “Labor and Industry” opened November 29, 1995 and ran through January 14, 1996. Featured works included prints by J.C. Bourne, Francois Bonhomme, Eugene Carriere, and William Read from the John P. Eckblad Collection of Industrial Imagery.