Current Exhibitions

 Fredericksburg
Prospect Hill Sunrise 

This exhibition features images of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Civil War Battlefields taken by National Park Service Photographer Larry Stuart.

In the fall of 2011, Stuart took up residence at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and spent a week exploring the park’s battlefields and historic buildings day and night, seeking to capture the mood and power of these historic places. 

 “In his quiet, unobtrusive manner, Dr. Hanley reflects the very culture of learning which he strives to endow. Like Lorenzo de Medici, under whom the Italian Renaissance reached its apogee, Dr. Hanley has spent tremendous sums out of his own pocket on art and books. It is a reverence for learning that is rare and wonderful.”
- Fr. Irenaeus Herscher, Friedsam Library

Donating over two hundred works of art to the St. Bonaventure University Permanent Art Collection, as well as tens of thousands of books to Friedsam Library’s collection, Thomas Edward Hanley became a common face on the St. Bonaventure campus during the days of his benefaction from 1942 until his death in 1969.

St. Bonaventure University and the University of Pittsburgh Bradford have collaborated on dual exhibitions featuring the collections of T. Edward Hanley. Each exhibition will include works collected by Hanley including artwork, books and letters that are now housed in the Universities’ archives.  

Plate No. 9 

Indian Brook and the
residence of Captain Phillips 

 This exhibition displays prints on loan from Fordham University taken from Jacques Milbert’s Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River and Surrounding Parts of North America, 1828.

In 1815, Jacques Milbert traveled to the United States in order to explore and record information on its north eastern typography, flora, fauna, and social history. With his travels being supported by the Museum of Natural History in Paris, Milbert took seven years to complete his study of the American north-east, sending 8,000 natural history specimens to France and constructing a series of highly detailed sketches of the areas which he traveled. Upon his return to France, Milbert’s sketches were transformed into prints and bound as a volume forming, at that time, one of the most comprehensive and accurate depictions of the north-eastern United States.  

Included in the exhibition are statues created by 19th century American sculpture John Rogers. Depicting literary scenes and images of early Americana, Roger Groups, mass-produced, plaster cast genre scenes, became popular in Victorian America and graced the parlors of many middle-class families.  

Rubus for Lord Byron:
Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner, 2000 

Riffing on the Masters
Located in the interior of the Paul W. Beltz Gallery - Second Floor 

In continuing with our rotation of contemporary artists within the Paul W. Beltz Gallery, the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University is pleased to present the work of Fiber Artist, Ruta Butkus Marino.  

The former curator of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts from 2003 - 2007, Marino now works in the Psychology Department at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio after having served as curator of the University’s visual resources from 2010 to January of this year. As a fiber artist, Marino uses a collage method of appliqué, combining commercial fabrics and hand quilting techniques to construct her images. Marino combines her Art History background with her extensive collection of commercially printed fabrics to create inspired works that pay homage to artists like Sandro Botticelli, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko and Jim Dine.  

Young Bacchus, 2008
After Caravaggio's
The Young Bacchus, c.1589 

Funny Pages
Located in the Art History Reference Library - Second Floor 

This exhibition examines the spread of comic book art through both history and popular culture. It offers examples of artists who have used comic book imagery within their paintings and prints while also showing the development of comics from genres such as Romance, Action and Western into the modern super heroes and Sunday comic strips we know and love today.