Exhibit brings Robert McCauley home again
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April 5, 2018
LOOKING TO THE PAST TO FACE THE FUTURE – Bring your thinking cap and schedule time to ponder Robert McCauley’s American Fiction” exhibit at MoNA. This is “When Worlds Collide,” 1996, oil on canvas, globes, glass, wood, copper, 41x69x13in., Maribeth Collins Art Fund, Collection of Hallie Ford Museum of Art, photo credit: Steve Pitkin. – Photo courtesy of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Greg Robinson, a former director of the Museum of Northwest Art, offered a different kind of homecoming last Saturday: He opened MoNA’s “Robert McCauley: American Fiction” with a 45-minute slide lecture to an appreciative audience of about 50 people, most of them getting a different view of MoNA: they had just attended the annual membership meeting.
McCauley, the son of generations of Mount Vernon loggers, accompanied his dad into the woods. Born in 1946, he “grew up watching forests fall. That had an impact on him,” Robinson explained. His dad became an activist. McCauley was als...
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