LAFAYETTE, LA.- The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum presents the exhibit Landscapes through September 2. Selections from the A.G. Edwards Corporate Collection - A. G. Edwards & Sons collection of landscape prints displays works by American, European and Asian artists from 1843 through 2000. The culmination of artists convey their individual ideas in depicting landscapes through print media. The majestic landscape of Michael Eastman's chromogenic color print is sharply contrasted by Edward McHugh's abstracted aquatint and etching of a landscape. The collection also contains prints by Brett Weston, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. The University Art Museum brings the Edwards collection of landscape prints to express the variety in depiction of print landscapes.

A.G. Edwards & Sons began its corporate art collection in 1967. Spanning more than 200 years and including over 4,000 works by noted American and European artists, the collection represents a broad range of print types, including lithographs, engravings, woodcuts, serigraphs, gelatin silver and platinum prints as well as mixed media. The firm began collecting poster graphics in the mid-1980s, viewing them as an extraordinary sociopolitical documentation of their times.

A.G. Edwards created the traveling exhibition program in 1991. With the collection, the firm’s branch offices have the opportunity to bring portions of the collection to their communities and share it with a greater public. It also allows for AGE branches to give back to their communities, and for small museums and community cultural institutions to be able to host exhibitions of a caliber that would otherwise be beyond their means.