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Please Help Save the Artwork at the Maier Museum

Journal Entry: Thu Nov 22, 2007, 11:22 AM
Please Help Save the Artwork at the Maier Museum
Body: The Maier 2500 Campaign:

An urgent, community-wide effort to save the art collection at the Maier Museum.

In 1920, George Bellows' masterpiece, Men of the Docks, came to Randolph-Macon Woman's College to enrich the College and Lynchburg community because of the efforts of many individuals working together. The student newspaper from that year reported,

"The painting by George Bellows, 'The Men of the Docks,' practically belongs here, for all but about $250 of the purchase price, $2, 500.00, has been pledged by public subscription…Yesterday one friend of the college donated $24 and another $50…Who would like to give the next hundred dollars?"

What you may not know is that 80% of the painting's purchase price was raised by students, alumnae, faculty, and Lynchburg citizens – and that the permanent collection of art at the College was envisioned from the very beginning to benefit not just the students of R-MWC but the people – especially the children – of Lynchburg, with art loaned for display in Lynchburg's schools, and with the Museum's current Art & SOL tour program which serves all Lynchburg School children. Central to this vision was a requirement that the permanent collection, for which the Bellows was purchased by the Randolph-Macon Art Association of Lynchburg, be "open at all times to the Lynchburg public."

Now we need to pull together again as a community to raise $1 million by December 3 to bring Men of the Docks and other paintings back from the auction block and a chance to keep the Collection intact for future generations.

(The Supreme Court of Virginia has issued a temporary injunction on the sale of the art but it requires a bond to extend it. Without the bond, the art could be sold as early as December 4, well before the lawsuits related to keeping the art in Lynchburg are finished.)

Please honor our kindred spirits from 1920 and their vision of establishing a cultural legacy for the benefit of their children by donating today to efforts to keep these treasures in Lynchburg.

Let's try to raise $500,000 directly from our friends and neighbors in this community to protect the art.

In memory of the original Bellows purchase price, please contribute in increments and variations of 25:

$25,000 - $2,500 - $250 - $25

Gifts of $250,000 are welcome as are gifts of $0.25!

It will take only 2,000 donations of $250 to meet the $500,000 goal. Please give as you are able and send this request on to friends and family in Lynchburg and surrounding communities. Building the Collection was a community-wide effort that began 100 years ago and saving the Collection should be a community-wide effort as well. Please contribute so that this cultural resource will continue to enrich our lives today and those of our descendents for the next 100 years. The whole nation is now aware of the stellar art treasures housed within our community – let's do everything we can to keep them here.

Preserve Educational Choice is coordinating efforts to preserve the R-MWC art, so please make checks payable to PEC but be sure to write in the memo line "Art Defense Fund 2500."

All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and every penny in this fund goes directly to efforts to keep the art in Lynchburg. PEC is a volunteer organization based in Richmond -- none of the Art Defense Fund goes to overhead expenses or other efforts to preserve Randolph-Macon Woman's College as a strong woman's college.

Preserve Educational Choice, Inc.
P.O. Box 29612
Richmond, VA 23242

More information about the art issue may be found at [link] as well as a link to make donations to the Art Defense Fund via credit card through PayPal.

Questions? Contact Museum Docents, Cheryl Hawkins at 332-5133 or cowartist70@gmail.com or Irene Devine at 384-2117 or irenedevine@comcast.net

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