Domestic Bliss in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Reynolda House Museum, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recently opened a new exhibit, "Domestic Bliss: Art at Home in Britain and America, 1780-1840". Running through May 20, 2012, this small, focused exhibit features 15 works from the collections of Reynolda House and Wake Forest University and will be displayed in the West Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. It is a study of the importance of home life as an artistic theme in late 18th-century British and American painting with displays of portraiture, genre, and landscape paintings and prints.

Curated by Morna O'Neill, assistant professor of art at Wake Forest University, with help from her students, this exhibition includes several works of art that are rarely seen at the Museum. Admission to this exhibition is included in the price of admission to Reynolda House.

And if you go in February, be sure to include the behind-the-scenes Hearthside Tour of Reynolda House. This special treat is only being offered the first two Sundays in February at 2:30pm and centers around a winter theme with tours of ten fireplaces, the original coal chute, furnace rooms, and other areas of the historic house normally closed to the public, including kitchens, laundry and mechanical rooms, the squash court, and areas below the swimming pool.

Sounds pretty 'cool' to us (that's a little winter humor).