Top Photo: Doris Alexander Thompson, Mill Town In March, n.d.; Stone Lithograph, 12.5 x 10.5 inches | Collection of the Dixie Art Colony Foundation, DAT-2020.AW.0011
FROM THE DIXIE ART COLONY
To register for the Lunch and Learn, please email info@dixieartcolony,.org
Join us on Thursday, June 15, 2023, to learn all about DAC artist Doris Alexander Thompson. During this unique program, we will show both slides and original works of art by Alexander that were donated to the DAC Foundation by the Mobile Museum of Art and the Holmes Museum in Foley, Alabama. We will also discuss the process of Stone Lithography and show examples of stones and other accouterments used in the process.
Lunch will begin at 11:00 am. The presentation will start at 11:45. We will meet in Trinity Hall at Trinity Episcopal Church, located directly across the street from Winn Dixie and McDonald’s at 5375 US Highway 231, Wetumpka, Alabama.
Reservations are requested but not required. There is no charge for the program or the optional lunch. Follow the link below or call 334.328.0730 to make a reservation.
The rare, early 1900s Litho Hand Press Alexander used was manufactured by “The Fuchs & Lang Manufacturing Company.” This number 2 model is the same model held in the collection of the SMITHSONIAN National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Its bed has a width of 23 inches and a length of 28 inches. Lithography presses of this type were first manufactured in the 1860s. This press and some of Alexander’s stones are part of the DAC Foundation Collection.
Three small wooden folding tables, including the one shown above are part of the collection.
