The elegant and graceful portraits, domestic scenes and landscapes of Adeline Albright Wigand and Otto Charles Wigand, two overlooked late 19th–early 20th century New York artists, will be celebrated in a new exhibition at the Staten Island Museum.

Many of 45 works in the exhibition are on loan from the private collections of the artists' family.

The couple classically-trained in New York and Paris, then moved to Staten Island in 1916 to paint until their deaths in 1944. They carried the ideals of their salon training, including a mastery of technical details and a focus on beauty, throughout their careers. While the Wigands achieved recognition during their lifetimes, their academic style eventually fell out of favor until a recent re-evaluation.

The public opening of "Beauty Rediscovered" and a "Curator’s Talk" with exhibition curator Bartholomew Bland, will be held on Saturday, June 26, 2–4p.m. at the Museum. The exhibit continues through January 17, 2011.

An accompanying book, "Color and Light," by art historian Kristen M. Jensen, with an introduction by Bartholomew F. Bland, will be published by the Museum.

Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Place, St. George, NY; www.StatenIslandMuseum.org