The Donald D’Amour Museum to show Richard Buswell Photography Exhibit

Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:30

SPRINGFIELD, MA -  “Richard Buswell: Traces - Montana’s Frontier Revisited,” an exhibition of  more than 50 black and white photographs, will be on view at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts from November 25, 2008, through February 22, 2009. Buswell’s photos are in the collections of more than 100 museums, including the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield.

Buswell, a photographer from Helena, Montana, often visited ghost towns with his parents when he was a child. He has spent the last two decades photographing abandoned homesteads and derelict settlements in western Montana. He documents the passing of time with images such as an iron bed frame in the snow, a long-vacant pioneer cabin, and the remains of a dormant mine. Using a 35mm camera, Buswell finds the beauty and compositional harmony in nature’s reclamation of these remnants of human habitation.

A catalogue published by The University of Montana Press will be available in the Museum Store.

The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts is located on the Quadrangle at 21 Edwards Street in downtown Springfield, Mass.. Free parking is available in the Edwards Street parking lots. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.  Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and college students, $5 for children 3-17, and free for children under three and museum members. Springfield residents are free with proof of address. The fee provides admission to all four Springfield Museums and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden.

For information, call 413-263-6800 or visit : www.springfieldmuseums.org .