Schiffhauer's portraits on display at
two local museums through March 31

Two local museums are featuring the paintings and drawings of Robert Schiffhauer, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture.

The Brazos County African-American Museum is displaying 40 of Schiffhauer’s portraits of prominent figures in African-American history and his favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, through March 31.

“Schiffhauer wanted to tell this story, of the men and women, black and white, free and slave, who lived during the tumultuous era that he said set the course that led to the steps of the Capitol, where the nation's first black president took the oath of office last month,” wrote the Bryan Eagle’s Vimal Patel in its Feb. 15 issue.

"It's a personal passion," Schiffhauer told Patel. "I love art history, and I love history history."

The Brazos County African-American museum’s website is www.bvaam.org.

For Patel’s story on Schiffhauer’s show, visit www.theeagle.com.

More of Schiffhauer’s work is on display at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in “Texas Writers & J. Frank Dobie: Texan Legend” through March 31.

Schiffhauer’s portraits of Dobie, the legendary Texan folklorist, and Charles Gordone, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Texas A&M professor, is part of the exhibit’s survey of creative writing in Texas.

For more information on “Texas Writers” visit the museum’s website at www.brazosvalleymuseum.org/.

  

- Posted: February 27, 2009 -

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