Social 11 July 2014

Highland House's Detwiler art exhibit extended through July 20

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(Information courtesy of Avery Applegate, Highland County Historical Society Board Member and Esoteric Club Member)

The Highland County Historical Society has announced that the Detwiler Art Show exhibit at Highland House Museum has been extended through Sunday, July 20. 

The exhibit, which includes artwork and painted china on display in a number of different rooms, spotlights the work of the Detwiler women of Hillsboro, including Emma Sayler Detwiler (1849-1933) and her daughters Irene Detwiler (1872-1962), Margaret Detwiler Stafford (1874-1935) and Frances H. Detwiler (1878-1959).

Emma Detwiler received art training through the Cincinnati Art Academy. Her work in oils was superb. Portraits she painted of her parents and husband are on loan from the First United Methodist Church.

Emma's training as an accomplished portrait and landscape painter prompted her to encourage her daughters to paint as well. Irene studied art in Cincinnati, Chicago and even Paris. She also gave private and group lessons in watercolor painting and painting on china and taught art at the Hillsborough Female Academy. Several of her dishes, painted with delicate flowers, are on loan.

Many community members loaned their Detwiler artwork to the Society for this show, including Greg VanZant, Jean Wallis and daughter Beth Biggs, Margaret Van Frank, Betty Wilkin, Helen Ford, Susie Sharp, Anne Rhude, Debbie and Sandy Harsha, Susan and Steve Thompson, Leland and Ellen Pennington, Mary Jo Copeland, Barbara Hodge, Tara Beery, Nina Pence and the First United Methodist Church.

The Esoteric Club, celebrating their 100th anniversary this year, hosted the art show's opening. The Club also hosted a Detwiler Show in 1955.

The exhibit can be viewed Saturdays and Sundays, 1-4 p.m. at the Highland House Museum.

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