Beginning on BEGINNING ON JULY 11 and continuing through JULY 31, 2023, the Dixie Art Colony Foundation will partner with the city of MILLBROOK to present an exhibition titled “A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORKS OF CARLOS ALPHA “SHINEY” MOON at “The Art Mill,” located at 3560 Grandview Road in Millbrook. The exhibition was curated by DAC Foundation founder and director Mark Andrew Harris.

The exhibition includes 25 original works of art, including Moon’s first painting, an oil painting titled “Southern Pine Tree,” depicting a view from the family’s backyard in Florala, Alabama. It was painted using his daughter Martha’s paint set. Many of the paintings included in this exhibition have been shown in art museum exhibitions throughout the Southeast and Internationally as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Art In Embassies program.

Moon’s most acclaimed work, titled “Moonlight on Pickel Hill,” is included in the exhibition. This large oil painting was included in the 2004 traveling exhibition titled “Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950.” In 2022, the Mobile Museum of Art donated this painting and many others to the DAC Foundation. In that exhibition, this painting hung alongside works by some of America’s most prominent 19th and 20th-century artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Andrew Wyeth.

Shown below are some of the artwork included in this exhibition.

“CODEN, ALABAMA POST OFFICE”  |   Carlos Alpha Moon, circa 1950  |  CAM-2022.AW.0004  |  watercolor on paper, 23 x 27 inches  |  Gift of the Mobile Museum of Art

“MANDY’S SHANTY”  |   Carlos Alpha Moon, circa 1950  |  CAM-2022.AW.0008  |  watercolor on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches  |  Gift of the Mobile Museum of Art

“MOONLIGHT ON PICKEL HIL” |  Carlos Alpha Moon, circa 1945 | CAM-2022.AW.0001 | oil on canvas, 29.75 x 23.75 inches | Gift of the Mobile Museum of Art

“HOLIDAY”  |   Carlos Alpha Moon, circa 1953  |  CAM-2022.AW.0001  |  watercolor on paper, 14.75 x 21.5 inches  |  DAC Foundation, Harris Collection