October 16, 2024

Rush Baker IV has been included in Maxwell Rabb's 10 Innovative Contemporary Landscape Painters for Artsy.  Here, we highlight 10 contemporary artists whose practices are innovating landscape painting...

As the son of a Washington, D.C.–area politician and a delegate to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Rush Baker IV wants his paintings to generate political discourse. In his exhibition at Hemphill Artworks in Washington, D.C., “Landscapes,” a selection of abstract works that use archival photographs and visual ephemerafrom the Civil War era comments on sociopolitical turmoil in the United States.

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October 26, 2024
11 am

Please join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, the final day of RUSH BAKER IV: Landscapes, for a gallery Q&A with the artist, Rush Baker IV and curator, Camille Brown.

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This talk coincides with the exhibition, RUSH BAKER IV: Landscapes, on view at HEMPHILL through October 26, 2024. Since 1998, the ART TALKS series at Hemphill has included educational lectures on topics such as collecting for beginners, artist talks, and panel discussions on issues in contemporary art.

Seating is Limited. Doors open at 10:30 am, Talk begins at 11 am.

University of Iowa
2024 - 2025

HEMPHILL is pleased to share that Rush Baker IV has been announced as the Painting & Drawing Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Grant Wood Fellowship program currently provides three one-year fellowships in painting & drawing, printmaking, and interdisciplinary performance. Fellows are selected through a national competition and provided with furnished living quarters at the Grant Wood Art Colony. The application process is open in January of each year, with selections made in April.

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Rush Baker IV: Phillips Collection Acquisition

HEMPHILL is pleased to share the recent acquisition of Rush Baker IV's painting, View From Charleston Harbor by the Phillips Collection. The painting is now a part of their permanent collection and is currently on view in Gallery 204.

Thank you to everyone who joined Rush at the Contemporaries Soirée at the Phillips Collection on Thursday, July 25, 2024 to celebrate the acquisition.

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