Members Appreciation Week is next week (April 2-6) and we want to thank our members for being a part of the Warren County Historical Society! To show our appreciation, we are having a series of ways to say, "thank you!" 

Members may bring a guest at no extra charge, without using a coupon or voucher, as many times as they would like, throughout the week.*
On April 2nd we're having gallery talks by presenters, on April 4th our curators will be available to consultation, and we're hosting an Appraisal Fair on April 6th!** 

Learn more about Members Appreciation Week by clicking the button below!

We wish to express our sympathy at the passing of Bill Rivers, long-time Board Member, account manager, and volunteer maintenance man. For over a decade, Bill helped keep the museum operating through his everyday commitment and service for which we are all forever grateful.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our retired, long-time Curator, Mary W. Klei. Mary dedicated herself to the Historical Society, and cared for its collections, as well as working diligently to establish the Warren County Historical Society Endowment Fund. For all who worked with her or enjoyed her company, she was erudite, a consummate teacher, and exacting historian. The Board has renamed the research library as the Mary W. Klei Research Library in her honor and memory.

​Celebrate St. Patrick's Day (early) with Irish Pub Sing-Along band, FinTan, at the second Music at the Museum concert!

Nationally known native Ohio artist Chuck Marshall developed an early love and respect for the outdoors and art. Chuck knew he was going to be an artist from a very early age. He would spend hours each day sketching images of fields, hillsides, and animals that he would see while roaming the countryside. 
 
After a short stint in the Navy he studied one year at the Art Institute of Cincinnati before before moving to and studying at the California Art Institute in Southern California. He has studied with various artist which he feels has helped him to develop who he is as an artist. His art career includes many years as an illustrator and graphic designer as well as his fine art.
 
Chuck has been invited to and participated in many national plein air events  such as a guest artist for the Plein Air Convention and Expo as a field painter, Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta Georgia, Door County Plein Air, Wisconsin, Great American Paint Out, in the Apalachicola/ Panhandle Florida area, Wayne Plein Air, PA, En Plein Air Texas, and Finger Lakes Plein Air, where he has won best of show twice so far. He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, Ohio Plein Air Society, American Impressionist Society, and Oil Painters of America.
 
Chuck’s work has been published in International Artist Magazine,  American Artist Magazine, and Plein Air Magazine. He has won numerous local and national awards, and has also performed as a judge in many juried art shows.  His work can be seen at the Eisele Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles Fine Art, Gloucester MA, and Hayley Gallery, New Albany, Ohio.

-taken from the artist's website

Meet Chuck and view his art at the FREE wine and cheese Opening Reception of Beautiful Ohio: the Paintings of Chuck Marshall.

When you enter Harmon Museum's main entrance, you probably noticed the life-size portrait hanging on the wall just to the right of the Welcome Desk. The portrait is of Mary "Mollie" Wood Harmon (1842-1884). She was the mother of Harmon Museum's namesake, William Elmer Harmon. In 1927, Harmon commissioned this painting from Gertrude Russel Briggs who used a Daguerre Type photograph of Mary when she was 20 or 22. Briggs would later go on to be a co-founded of the Phoenix Art Institute.