From Dixie Art Colony Foundation
Top Photo: “CODEN, ALABAMA POST OFFICE” | Carlos Alpha Moon, circa 1950 | CAM-2022.AW.0004 | watercolor on paper, 23 x 27 inches | Gift of the Mobile Museum of Art
Now through JULY 31, 2023, the Dixie Art Colony Foundation will partner with the city of MILLBROOK to present an exhibition titled “A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORKS OF CARLOS ALPHA “SHINEY” MOON at “The Art Mill,” located at 3560 Grandview Road in Millbrook. The exhibition, curated by DAC Foundation founder and director Mark Andrew Harris, will continue through July 31, 2023. A reception will be held on Tuesday, July 18, from 4:30 until 6:30 pm. July 18, 2023, marks the 117th anniversary of “Shiney” Moon’s birth.
During the reception, Harris and Millbrook resident Bill Myers, Executive Director of the Grandview Family YMCA, will conduct a brief presentation at 5:30 pm. The brief presentation will focus on how “Shiney Moon’s” painting career was launched in 1943 due to his daughter Martha’s attendance at a two-week Girl’s Camp held at Millbrook’s Camp Grandview, which today is part of the Montgomery Area YMCA.
The exhibition includes 25 original works of art, including Moon’s first painting, an oil painting titled “Southern Pine Tree,” depicting a view from the family’s backyard in Florala, Alabama. It was painted using his daughter Martha’s paint set. Many of the paintings included in this exhibition have been shown in art museum exhibitions throughout the Southeast and Internationally as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Art In Embassies program.
Moon’s most acclaimed work, titled “Moonlight on Pickle Hill,” is included in the exhibition. This large oil painting was included in the 2004 traveling exhibition titled “Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950.”
In 2022, the Mobile Museum of Art donated this painting and many others to the DAC Foundation. In that exhibition, this painting hung alongside works by some of America’s most prominent 19th and 20th-century artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Andrew Wyeth.
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