Through January 5, 2014 at Virginia Historical Museum

The VHS offers FREE ADMISSION to the history museum and research library daily!

In the 1850s, German artist Edward Beyer traveled throughout western Virginia and painted landscapes of many of the small towns in the Blue Ridge Mountains. These paintings are remarkable not only for their beauty but also their attention to detail. This exhibition uses Beyer’s landscapes as documents to compare the bustling communities of the middle of the nineteenth century with the Blue Ridgetowns of today.