A closing reception for the exhibit of Everett Kivette’s work currently at the Herring-Kivette Gallery at Yancey Library will be held on Friday, June 21, from 4-6 p.m. The exhibit will be available for viewing through June 29.
The public is invited, light refreshments will be served. Register to win an original painting or print by Everett Kivette.
The paintings, watercolors, and prints in this exhibit are from 1953 to 1960 when Everett and his wife Ruth were living in New York City. The work offers a unique glimpse of the area during that time.
The art Everett created while living in New York City, Greenwich Village and on Long Island coincided with a definitive time there when artists, writers and musicians were experiencing a renaissance of sorts. His upstairs neighbor was Harper Lee, who was working on her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, and other artists, including Edward Hopper, lived nearby.
For Everett, it was a long and productive journey that took him from his agricultural heritage in Buies Creek in eastern NC to Burnsville to New York, then back to the mountains of Yancey County where he spent much of his life operating Painting in the Mountains Studio, which carried on the painting school tradition established in Burnsville in the mid-1940s by his mentor Frank Stanley Herring.
This exhibit can be viewed at the Herring-Kivette Gallery at Yancey County Public Library through June 29, 2024 during regular library hours: M-W-F from 9-5, TT from 9-7, and Saturday 10-1.
Boy on fire escape in Harlem. Linoleum block print.
Long Island scene. Oil on board.
