DOROTHEA LANGE'S AMERICA
On view through December 30
Babcock Wing Gallery
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco , 1933. © The Dorothea Lange
Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor

"Invariably, these photographs do more than simply document the social problems of their era. They’re powerful images in the way that great paintings are powerful — vividly specific, strongly composed and evocative of broad human themes."

— Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal

Highlighting Dorothea Lange's America are oversized exhibition prints of the photographer's seminal images from the Great Depression, including  Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California  from 1936—an emblematic picture that came to personify pride and resilience in the face of abject poverty in 1930s America. Lange’s photographs are supplemented by photographs by other notable social documentarians of the era, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Mike Disfarmer.


All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. Reynolda House is grateful for the generous support of the exhibition from Lead Sponsors Claire & Hudnall Christopher and Debbie & Mike Rubin and Exhibition Partners Lynn & Barry Eisenberg, Pam & Fred Kahl, and Phoenix Packaging. 
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PAY WHAT YOU WISH THURSDAY
Presented by Macy's
Thursday, October 25
4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.


Join us for our final Pay What You Wish Thursday Presented by Macy's! Enjoy live music, hot cider, and pumpkin decorating and get a special after-hours look at Dorothea Lange's America .

From 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., paid admission is waived; cash donations to the Museum and Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina are welcome.
JOHN SLOAN: NEW YORK ETCHINGS
Closes November 25
Northeast Bedroom Gallery
John Sloan is perhaps best remembered today as one of the most significant and prolific members of the Ashcan School, the group of artists who embraced the vitality of early twentieth-century urban life and depicted it in vivid, gritty glory. In this small installation of nine etchings, we see the stories that Sloan gathered as he strolled through Manhattan. At turns amusing or poignant, sometimes scandalous, these works offer us a glimpse of a dynamically changing country a century ago.
FILMS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FILM SERIES
Sunday, October 28, and Sunday, November 4
2 - 4 p.m.
$15
Dorothea Lange, "Grapes of Wrath" Billboard , 1939. Photo negative, 5 x 4 in. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
The Depression era was one of the most significant periods in film history, producing numerous masterpieces and changing the role of filmmaking and moviegoing in American life. As hardship led average citizens to seek refuge in movie houses across the country, filmmakers provided that escape, often presenting sharp critiques of the world around them. In this three-week series, a local film scholar will introduce a screening of, and provide commentary following, three Depression-era films.

Check out out remaining films in the series:

OCTOBER 28    I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang  with Dale Pollock, filmmaker, writer, and professor of cinema studies and distinguished scholar at University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking

NOVEMBER 4   The Grapes of Wrath  with David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University
LECTURES
OBJECT OF THE MONTH:
Elizabeth Browne Rogers (1761)
Wednesday, November 7
1 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Joseph Blackburn, Elizabeth Browne Rogers , 1761, oil on canvas. Original Purchase Fund from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, ARCA, and Anne Cannon Forsyth.
Curator Allison Slaby will present one of the oldest portraits in Reynolda's collection, now on view in  Outlaws in America Art.

BOOK TALK: CODE GIRLS
WITH AUTHOR LIZA MUNDY
Thursday, November 15
6 p.m.
All ages welcome
Members/students: $8; Non-members: $10
Free for Wake Forest University employees
More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington, D.C. and learned the meticulous work of codebreaking. Their efforts shortened the war and saved countless lives, but a strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history—until now. Author Liza Mundy will discuss and read from her new book  Code Girls .

Mundy is the New York Times bestselling author of  The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family and Michelle: A Biography . This event is presented with Bookmarks.
MEMBERS
MEMBERS' SHOPPING DAY
Thursday, November 8
Free for Members and their guests
Your favorite store offers its favorite shoppers a special discount just in time for your holiday shopping! Enjoy a double discount (20%) on all purchases and choose one item for 50% off. Share the love—your guests will enjoy the same discount on this day.

Not yet a Member at Reynolda? We can fix that.
CHRISTMAS AT REYNOLDA BEGINS NOVEMBER 14
REYNOLDA VILLAGE HOLIDAY STROLL
Saturday, November 17
5 – 8 p.m.
Reynolda Village
Come stroll through Reynolda Village and enjoy the holiday decorations, shopping, carriage rides, the music of the Carolers of Christmas Past, Santa Claus, and hot beverages and cookies.
CAROLING FRIDAYS
Begins Friday, November 23 through December 21
2:45 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
The Reception Hall fills with friends, music, and cheer as we gather around the Aeolian organ for Christmas carols. No advance registration or caroling experience required; music lasts approximately 20 minutes. No advance tickets are required. 
CONCERTS
HANK, PATTIE, AND THE CURRENT
with Chatham Rabbits
The Barn at Reynolda Village
Thursday, November 29
Doors open at 7 p.m

Advance tickets $20; $25 at the door
Limited table seating available
Hank, Pattie, and The Current
Chatham Rabbits
Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians join forces with some of the Triangle area’s most versatile musicians to create modern, American, acoustic music featuring the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers. The band follows in the footsteps of Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor, Chris Thile, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, and Tony Rice.

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With palpable chemistry and warmth, Chatham Rabbits — Sarah Osborne McCombie (vocals, banjo) and Austin McCombie (vocals, guitar, fiddle) — fill each space they enter with brightness and sincerity. Their songs are stories flush with vivid imagery, contemplative metaphors, and evidence of their binding ties to the South.

Hank, Pattie, and the Current with Chatham Rabbits is part of the More Barn concert series at The Barn at Reynolda Village.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY
Sunday, November 25
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m .

This holiday shopping season, we're teaming up with the Museum Store Association and over 800 other institutions around the world to highlight the work of Museum Stores!

Indulge in relaxed and inspired shopping at Reynolda while supporting our Museum goals and mission.

CHRISTMAS 101
AT REYNOLDA

Browse our line-up of holiday events including our signature Christmas 1917 Tours, performances, workshops and more. All tickets are now on sale. Celebrate our 101st Christmas all December long!