Works of art from the Mathews Archives will be on display at Mathews Memorial Library from July 6 through Aug. 31 in an exhibit titled “Out of the Archives: Art Treasures.” The works will be on view in the library’s atrium, located between the main library and Teen Territory. The selected works include two 1967 watercolor paintings, “Poplar Grove” and “Poplar Grove Tide Mill,” by William Jefferson Wallace Jr.; a 1913 mixed-media work by Frederick Spurgion Treakle titled “Two Steamboats”; a watercolor painting of Mathews waterman Arthur James “A.J.” Hurst by J. Robert Burnell; “Belmont,” an acrylic on canvas painted by Louise Ausbon in 1971; and “Buck’s Service Station,” an oil on canvas depicting Percy G. “Buck” Dillehay’s gas station at Hudgins, painted by William L. Shockley in 2018. Mathews Archives is a partnership between Mathews Memorial Library and the Mathews County Historical Society. The archival collections, containing more than 8,000 items in over 215 separate collections, ...