Smoke curls upward from a train engine. A women and child stroll down a lane. The town nestles beside the river and upon the hills. All these picturesque images describe the subject matter of the painting of Garner W.Jex (1895-1979) which are on the display in the museum of Shenandoah Valley changing Exhibition Gallery Through May04,2008.
Garner W.Jex :Hapers Ferry Landscapes displays 18 paintings by Washington,D.C, artist Garner W.Jex . From 1920s through 1956, Jex and his fellow artists in the Landscape Club of Washington travelled to town of Hapers Ferry, west Virginia, to look for inpiration and subject matter. Jex’s images captured the beauty of this Shenandoah Valley town longer before tourists discovered it.
