During your visit to this Laurel, Mississippi attraction, explore its collections and special exhibitions. The Lauren Rogers Art Museum also houses a museum store that carries gifts and keepsakes.
Lauren Rogers Art Museum Collections
European Art
The smallest of the Lauren Rogers Art Museum’s collections is the European art collection, comprised of 65 European works of art that span from the 17th to 20th centuries. At the core of the collection are 24 works gifted to the art museum by the Eastman and Rogers families, including internationally renowned works of art such as Jean-Francois Millet’s First Steps and Landscape Near Paris by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, one of the first modernist painters. Among other important works within the collection is an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, Virgin and Child with Cat, landscapes of the French countryside by French artists and landscapes and portraits painted with watercolors by English artists. Additionally the collection includes Henry Moore’s Ideas for Sculpture, a lithograph by the great English modernist sculptor and works on paper by the Cubist Jacques Lipchitz, the Surrealist Salvador Dali, the Fauvist Paul Signac and the 20th century modernist printmaker Max Papart.
American Art
The Lauren Rogers Art Museum boasts an impressive collection of American paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Of great significance is the collection’s 19th and 20th century paintings gifted to the art museum by Lauren Chase Eastman, the grandfather of Lauren Rogers. Landscape paintings dating from the late 19th century to the present, including late examples of Hudson River School paintings are also featured in the American art collection.
Native American Art
The Native American art collection is mainly made up of Native American baskets gifted to the Museum by Catherine Marshall Gardiner, the great aunt of Lauren Rogers. Numbering over 500 objects, the collection includes both simple, unadorned utilitarian objects and objects of great complexity, made to be beautiful but not used.
Japanese Woodblock Prints
The Japanese Woodblock Prints collection illuminates an art form springing from Japan’s Edo or Tokugawa period. Artworks within the collection portray the ukiyo-e “floating world” in elegant, otherworldly landscapes and scenes of leisure and pleasure.
British Georgian Silver
Much of the art museum’s British Georgian Silver collection is drawn from the magnificent and well-focused collection of silver luxury goods, most used in relation to English “high tea,” donated to the Museum by the late Harriet and Thomas Gibbons. Within the collection are works by the best-known silversmiths of the age including Paul Storr, Paul de Lamerie and Hester Bateman, a woman who learned the trade from her husband, then took over the business after his death. During her days, Bateman produced some of the most sought-after silver of the period.
Museum Shop
Be sure to stop by the Museum Shop. One-of-a-kind gifts and keepsakes related to the Lauren Rogers Art Museum’s collections and exhibitions are available to purchase.
- The Lauren Rogers Art Museum is ADA compliant. Wheelchairs are available for use.
- The Lauren Rogers Art Museum regularly hosts special exhibitions. Examples of past exhibitions include American Regionalism: Works on Paper, Domestic Landscapes: Photographs by Bert Teunissen and Rebels with a Cause: American Impressionist Women.