Rehoboth Art League trip to tour Easton museum May 21

The Rehoboth Art League will host a bus trip to Easton, Md., Tuesday, May 21. Attendees will be led on a guided tour of the historic property of the Academy Art Museum. Afterward there will be time to wander the charming, historic downtown for lunch and shopping options. The Academy Art Museum houses galleries, a performing arts arena, a library, a permanent collection and a music studio.

On display is its latest exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955, which features 100 seldom-seen works that illustrate the breadth and depth of this preeminent American artist’s early years. Beginnings is the first exhibition to focus solely on the work Diebenkorn made prior to his decisive turn to figuration in the late 1950s. In addition to considering his early thematic and stylistic evolution, the exhibition also examines Diebenkorn’s technical origins in oil, watercolor, gouache, ink, crayon and collage.

The chronological focus demonstrates the environments and individuals that influenced him, beginning with his years as a student and his time in the Marines, through his early professional years in Sausalito, Calif., and his academic positions in Albuquerque, N.M., and Urbana, Ill., before his return to the Bay Area.

Tickets are $45 per person and include travel on a comfortable coach bus, entry to the museum and a guided tour. Space is limited and advance reservations are required.

For more information and to purchase tickets, go to www.rehobothartleague.org or call 302-227-8408.