Jonathan Bailey
Iceburg #4, St. Anthony, Newfoundland, 2004

Cloudscapes A Selection from the Permanent Collection
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As summer approaches, these diverse works of art will encourage you to lift your head to the sky and marvel at what lies overhead. Whatever your pleasure — cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratus — you’ll see nature’s poetry reflected in paintings, photography and prints from UMMA’s extensive collection.  Depictions of the puffy formations include a weighty, gusty sky in Sam Cady’s oil painting Snow Squall over Outer Islands, wispy skies in the pastel The Desert Moonlight: Mt. Desert by Frederick Childe Hassam and a looming, driving rain in Siri Beckman’s wood engraving Approaching Storm. The exhibition also features works by Neil Welliver, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Josef Arentz and Jonathan Bailey.