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| Tropical Adirondeco by Murrie Gayman |
At a reception held at Woodmere Art
Museum on May 21st, winners of the collaborative Morris
Arboretum-Woodmere exhibit, Take a Seat! were
announced. Forty artists are
included in the Take a Seat!
exhibition, and 70 Adirondack chairs will be on display at Woodmere Art Museum
and throughout Morris Arboretum’s 92-acre garden from May 31st
through Labor Day, September 3rd.
The variety of disciplines and talent on display in the
art form of the classic Adirondack chair is impressive.
First
prize went to Murrie Gayman for his vibrant Tropical
AdironDeco chairs and accompanying footstool. Gayman
graduated cum laude from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the
University of the Arts) in 1958.
After successful careers designing interiors, fabrics and wall
coverings, he began a new venture in the 1990s creating huge murals for public
spaces utilizing scraps of antique barn wood. His work can be seen in many prominent Bucks County
buildings, at the Pennsylvania Visitors Welcome Center in Susquehanna County,
and at the historic Moland House in Warwick Township. www.barnwoodmurals.com
