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Date/Time
Date(s) - December 9, 2022
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts
Categories
Eldridge Bagley began painting fifty years ago while he was still living with his parents on their farm in rural Lunenburg County, Virginia. Bagley often depicts the substance and meaning of a vanishing small-town and agrarian lifestyle. Relationships with family, friends, neighbors, religion, and the land are important themes in this retrospective exhibition.
“I can’t live in the past,” Bagley told a news writer, “but I do know . . .that there are traditions, convictions, and values that never change and are worth preserving.” He never set out to be a historian, but his audience recognized intuitively that “history is a genre of memory.” His artistic journey over the course of the past fifty years affirms that he is truly a historian of the heart.