Currently on view at Reading Public Museum "Gary Erbe: Magical World", a solo traveling exhibition which runs through August 2, 2025. This exhibition is worth your trip! Next stop is at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN. An 88-page full color cataloque is available at the Museum gift store.
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I had a wonderful opening reception after the well attended powerpoint lecture. There are 50 paintings in this solo exhibition which runs to August 2 at the Reading Public Museum. Don't miss this exhibition. It is worth your trip! Illustrated painting is "Celebrating an American Patriot", 30 x 40 inches, O/C, Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.
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Currently on view "American Recipe", 50 x 42 inches, O/C at Reading Public Museum "Gary Erbe: Magical World", a solo traveling exhibition which runs through August 2, 2025. This exhibition is worth your trip! Next stop is at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN. An 88-page full color cataloque is available at the Museum gift store.
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Please join me on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at my opening reception, 5-8 p.m. at Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA and power point lecture on May 22, 2026, which begins at 1 p.m.
Everyone is welcome!!
This is my most recent major painting "The Big Pow Wow", 2025, 68 x 60 inches, Oil on Canvas.
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This is the largest easel painting I have ever created back in 1975, "Composition in Red, White and Blue", 72 x 112 inches/Oil on Canvas for the 1976 Bicentennial and is now part of a traveling exhibition "Gary Erbe: Magical World" which is comprised of 50 works. The exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art ends today, then travels to Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, May 23-August 2, 2026 and continues to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, August 22-October 25, 2026.
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Yesterday, Zeny and I visited the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA. I was very surprised to see a banner announcing my forthcoming solo exhibition which will open on May 23-August 2, 2026. I look forward to the exhibition and appreciate the Museum interests in my work. The reception is scheduled for May 21, 2026 from 5-8 p.m. and a PowerPoint lecture the following day starting at 1 p.m.
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Just returned from my visit to the The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH. I was very pleased with the installation of my work and the opening reception was well attented despite the bad weather. Next stop is at the Reading Public Museum, PA and on to The Fort Wayne Museum in Indiana.
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I want to share a most recent composition, Construction (Mixed Media) for the oil painting entitled "The Big Pow Wow", 68 x 60 inches. Gary Erbe: Magical World, a solo traveling exhibition comprised of 50 paintings will be on view at The Butler Institute of American Art, OH, January 25-March 29, 2026, Reading Public Museum, PA, May 23-August 2, 2026 and Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, August 22-October 25, 2026.