ART | A visual treat

Several seldom-displayed collection pieces of art and artifacts from the early days of the Springfield Art Association will be on display in the Gallery of Art through Jan. 26. The new exhibit, Art are Not a Trifle: The Springfield Art Association and its Collections, 1914-1930, includes the first SAA exhibited artist C. Arnold Slade; Ethel Mars, a Springfield-born artist who caught the attention of Gertrude Stein in Paris and is the subject of Stein’s short story “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene;” George Peter Alexander Healy, considered one of the finest portrait painters of the 19th century; and Henry Salem Hubbell, whose portrait commissions included Franklin Roosevelt and members of the cabinet. SAA invites the public to an opening reception Jan. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.