Art Show opens at the Old Town Hall Museum in Stamford

On the evening of September 27th, a privately funded art show, entitled A Persistent Passion: The Art of  Lora Eberly Ballou  formally opened at Stamford's Old Town Hall Museum.

(After a $15 million renovation which began in 2007, Stamford's architectural masterpiece the Old Town Hall re-opened on September 19, 2009. In attendance were then Mayor Dan Malloy and Senator Richard Blumenthal, accompanied by a band and a ribbon cutting ceremony.)

This show is sponsored by Ballou's grandson and his wife, Robert M. and Patricia Phillips. Bob  writes that his grandma was an "extraordinary, quiet little woman who over a very long life had witnessed an incredible variety of  historical events, traveled practically everywhere in this world and lived in a grand house that provided my brother and me with endless memories of youthful experiences and adventures."  He goes on to say he knew of her paintings, but this knowledge was ancillary to his "structured" nature of his visits.

As the slide show indicates, her subjects ranged from still lifes, wooded landscapes and coastal scenes.

The show will be at Old Town Hall until January 31, 2013.