Art Exhibit at the Lightner Museum

This exhibit runs  from February 1, 2013 - May 1, 2013

Step into St. Augustines past through Edwin Augustus Moores brushstrokes!

THE COLLECTION

EDWIN AUGUSTUS MOORE: American Painter at the Lightner Museum features the great fire as well as other local scenes from the 1890s and will be supplemented with corresponding early photographs from the archives of the Saint Augustine Historical Society.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kopec of Southington, Connecticut and Saint Augustine, Florida have loaned their private collection of Edwin Augustus Moore paintings to be featured as a special exhibit in The Lightner Museum.

THE EXHIBIT

This exhibit will be opened for a limited time and will be displayed in a newly renovated gallery previously closed to the public

The exhibit will open February 1^st and will close May 1^st. The Lightner Museum is open daily from nine until five and free for St. Johns County residents.

THE ARTIST

Edwin Augustus Moore was an American painter, traveler, journalist, photographer and composer who used St. Augustine for many of his landscape watercolor subjects.

Moore is among the many tourists of the early nineteenth century who were attracted to Saint Augustine, Florida.

Moore did many sketches and finished paintings of Saint Augustine, which were featured in exhibits when he returned to his home in Connecticut.

During his stay Moore would witness the catastrophic fire of 1895 on the Saint Augustine bay front and would produce several works that record the event.

THE VENUE

The Lightner Musuem

 Admission is adults $10; active military with ID $6; college students and those 12-18 years old $5; and children under 12 with an adult are free. Also St. John's County residents are free. Call (904) 824-2874 or visit lightnermuseum.org for additional details.