Did you miss the 2012 Pee Regional Art Competition opening? Well here is your chance to catch what you missed. The exhibit will be on display until December 16th. We hope you’ll stop by to view some of the region’s finest contemporary art.

“Morning Story” was a Museum purchase as First Place ($1,000 Museum Purchase Award) in the Twenty-Fourth Guild of South Carolina Artists Exhibition held from November 10, to December 5, 1974…

Please join the Trustees of the Florence Museum and the United States Postal Service on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 in celebrating the first day of circulation of a commemorative stamp honoring Florence, SC native, William H. Johnson. Program will begin at 3:30 at the Florence Museum with a small reception following. Opportunities will be available to purchase post marked first day circulation envelopes.

Corrie McCallum was born in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1914. She attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC from 1932-36, where she met her future husband and fellow artist, William Melton Halsey. McCallum and Halsey moved on to the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. In 1936 where she was offered an opportunity …

Scarborough traveled in the Carolinas and Georgia, painting the portraits of many prominent families in areas such as Cheraw, Darlington and Society Hill.  As was the custom during that era, Scarborough would be a houseguest of the family he was painting and his “visit” could last many months.  The Florence Museum holds seven portraits by …

Alfred Hutty was born in Grand Haven, Michigan in 1877. He moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1919 while in his early forties. He worked as a stained glass designer in Kansas City and at Tiffany Glass Studios in New York, and had begun a long association with the Woodstock, NY art community and with Lowell Birge Harrison, a mentor of…

Anna Heyward Taylor was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1879. She is known primarily for her woodblock prints but was also a skilled watercolorist, as well as a graphic and landscape artist. A descendant of a wealthy cotton family from Columbia, South Carolina, Taylor moved to New York where she lived for much of the 1920s. In 1929…