Women on canvas at Brooks, ‘all over the museum’ at Dixon
Mary Atwood (left) quick-steps to give a helping hand to one-year-old Harrison Parks (right) as he and Eliot Atwood (2) take part in the interactive portion of the Brooks Museum's exhibit of work by French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau on Sept. 11, 2019. The Bouguereau exhibit is one of two important art shows that are winding down their runs here in Memphis. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Important shows in two Memphis museums are winding up soon: the Bouguereau at Brooks, and two by Southern women artists at the Dixon.
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Jill Johnson Piper is a second generation newspaper writer with roots in Memphis and Arkansas. She earned a B.A. in English from Rhodes College. Her work appears in Rhodes Today and Memphis magazine, as well as The Daily Memphian.
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