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Teresa Johnston Basketry
On display in the TSCPL Rotunda through June 2009
Check out Teresa Johnston's Flickr page
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project
Louise Sanders (author)
Maxfield Parrish (illustrator)
The Knave of Hearts, 1925
New York: Scribner
Louise Saunders, wife of editor Max Perkins, teamed with one of the most popular illustrators of all time, Maxfield Parrish, to create this unforgettable fable.
Maxfield Parrish was a prominent American painter and
illustrator who contributed to the Art Deco style with his
brilliant colors and idealized imagery.
To create these magical effects in his paintings, Parrish would apply numerous layers of thin, transparent oil, alternating with varnish over stretched paper, a painstaking process that achieved both high luminosity and extraordinary detail.
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Caroline Garcia Ziegler
Goldy Locks and the Three Ws: The First of Six Mixed-Up Fairy Tales, 2010
Paper, letterpress, linocuts, crayon
Edition of 33
TSCPL Permanent Collection
How is the artist using text as image in this book? Does it work with the idea of
mixed-up fairy tales?
Abstraction: Female Form
The goal of abstract art is to communicate the intangible, that which eludes the photograph and normal seeing.
— Curtis Verdun, painter
Akio Takamori
Woman Holding Baby, 1999
Porcelain
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 1999.035
People have utilized abstraction throughout time. In order to communicate or express ideas, early artists used symbols and abstracted imagery to create petroglyphs, cave paintings and small portable totems, for example. These three female figures symbolically represent rebirth and fertility from a traditional tribal ceremonial piece to geometric modern interpretation to
contemporary realism. Each piece represents the ideas of the particular artist’s culture and time.
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
8. Teapot with lizard lid
ca. 20th century
Pewter
97.40.45
9. Lotus leaf dish with rooster
ca. 20th century
Porcelain
79.17.5d
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Charles Hobson
Anotaciones, 2000
Text by Barry Lopez.
Cigar box, paper, offset lithography
Edition of 30
TSCPL Permanent Collection
In this intricate piece of fictional writing Barry Lopez has created an imaginary academic submission to a historical journal. Written by the aging historian Rubén Mendoza Vega, the article, though only one paragraph long, uses 16 footnotes that add depth and contour to the personality of the writer. Following the footnotes, the reader can assemble a puzzle out of the old man’s life, dispositions and prejudices.
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
7. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Glass, inner painting
97.40.281
Goldfish are a symbol of success and wealth. The words for gold fish are phonetically identical to the two words meaning gold in abundance.
Victor Trabucco | United States
"Red rose bouquet" (1992)
Glass, lampwork paperweight
Gift of Jeanne HIrschberg
2009.021.007
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
6. Pair of lotus blossom candlesticks
ca. 20th century
Pewter
97.40.75ab
The lotus flower, which grows out of the mud, is a symbol of purity and enlightenment.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
3/150: Edward Everett Hale’s Kanzas and Nebraska, was published in August of 1854, with the sanction of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. It is the first book ever published about Kansas. Its purpose was to encourage pioneers to move to Kansas, settle there, and ensure that Kansas would become a Free State. While the NEEAC was intended to be a for-profit company, few people bought stock in it. Hale earned a little over $200 in royalties, and the company lost $108.
5/150: Sara T. L. Robinson, Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life, Including A Full View of its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Etc., Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1856, 6th edition. Sara was the wife of Charles Robinson, both founders of Lawrence, Kansas. Charles Robinson later became governor of Kansas.
4/150: Frye W. Giles’ Thirty Years in Topeka: 1865-1885, original publication, Topeka, KS, Geo. Crane and Publishers, 1886. Frye Giles was one of the original nine founders.
2/150: Topeka’s Founders’ Cabin, photographic visiting card by Leonard & Martin, 1882. The original painting was by Henry Worrall, and is in the collection of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Emory Douglas
Reparations, 2010
Paper, letterpress, thread
Edition of 100; San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
This book deals with the subject of reparations and slavery with each abstract designed figure chained together making up the word, REPARATIONS.
How does the use of imagery help tell the story?
Reparations:
Emory Douglas is renowned for his iconic representations of the Black Panther Party through his work as the Party's Minister of Culture. For decades, he communicated the power and charisma of the movement through his compelling straightforward graphic style. — San Francisco Center for the Book
Minerals are sources of pigment color .
Recently we took a journey back in time to the Middle Ages, before the printing press, when books were written and illustrated entirely by hand. Dr. Tony Silvestri from Washburn University showed us how he’s keeping this complex craft alive today. Offered in conjunction with "Telling Stories", our current book art exhibit.
Abstraction: Still-life
How does the artist use elements of art such as color, shape, and line to abstract each still life? Does the use of color change the mood of each piece?
Jansen
untitled, 1957
Lithograph
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 1963.584
Installation view left to right:
Korhogo cloth. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Hand-woven muslin, dye. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer. Items in cases details here: Basket and Cooking items. Lapa cloth. Liberia, Loma. Gift of Diana Hawks.
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Clarissa Sligh
It Wasn’t Little Rock, 2005
Paper, printing, wire
Edition of 150; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
TSCPL Permanent Collection
In this book, the artist sought to understand what motivated her mother, a quiet, reserved, seemingly passive but determined 'colored' woman who grew up in the South, to offer up her children as plaintiffs in the Arlington, Virginia school class action suits. It is a personal struggle, anger, pride and the revelation of a family tragedy that led Ethel Sligh to her activism.
This artist’s book was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education (1954) decision which stated that “separate but equal” public schools were unconstitutional.
Slippers, China
Grass, cord; 20th c.
Gift of Annie B. Sweet
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Permanent Collection, S-9
Arman 'The Red Faucet' (Der rote Wasserhahn), 1973, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Detail from:
Xydias Nikolaos (1826 - 1909)
Portrait of Dimitrios Vikelas, π. 1870
Oil on canvas, 130 x 79 cm. Inv. no: Π.1674
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Λεπτομέρια από:
Νικόλαος Ξυδιάς (1826 - 1909)
Προσωπογραφία Δημητρίου Βικέλα, π. 1870
Λάδι σε μουσαμά, 130 x 79 cm
Δωρεά Κλεοπάτρας Καυταντζόγλου και Σοφίας Σαριπόλου, Αρ. έργου: Π.1674
Dan R. Kirchhefer
Topeka KS
Ode to Egon (2005)
Monotype; mixed media, chine collé,
encaustic, watercolor, pastel, paper
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
The Printed Image Competition
2006.38
Egon Shiele would have been flattered. The figure is practically spilling over into our space. Softness and transparency of subject matter compliment the intimate scale. My question for Kirchhefer: Why the blood-red stained hands?
–Trish Nixon
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
12. Snuff bottle with Mandarin Ducks
ca. 20th century
Porcelain, enamel, turquoise, coral
97.40.237
Mandarin Ducks are a symbol of married bliss because they are believed to mate for life.
Clockwise from top:
Shuttle. Liberia, Loma. Wood, thread. Used to make thread for weaving. Gift of Diana Hawks. Woven cloth strip. Liberia, Mandingo. Gift of Diana Hawks. This strip is still attached to the hand loom on which it was being processed. Hand loom. Liberia, Loma. Wood, thread, leather and wire. Gift of Diana Hawks. Hand loom. Liberia, Loma. Wood, thread, leather and wire. Gift of Diana Hawks.
Georg Minne 'Die heiligen drei Frauen' (Three Saints), 1896, Kunsthalle (Museum of Art), Hamburg, Germany
Susaku Arakawa 'The Given' (Das Vorgegebene), 1972, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Accompanying text for Jancy Pettit's "Intersections III"
Curate This! is a mentorship program where area high school students are instructed in the various skills needed to work in a gallery workplace.
Part classroom and part independent study, we are willing to work with instructors to monitor student progress and credit her/him for grading purposes.
Contact our museum educator, Betsy Roe, if you or someone you know is interested in participating in 2014: 785-580-4577 (or) eroe@tscpl.org.
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project
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Walter Feldman
My Story, 2007
Text by Juan Ortiz
Paper, stamping, offset lithography, fabric
Edition of 50; Ziggurat Press, Providence, RI
TSCPL Permanent Collection
I am making this small codex in the hope that all people of the world may learn to be kind to one another and to share their maize and clean water with one another.
My Story, excerpt:
"My ancestors were born in the highlands of a land which some people now call Guatemala.
All the world then was ruled by the serpent God whose name was Quezalcoatl.
It was a time for the making of beautiful buildings and great cities that had straight streets, fresh water to
drink and a giant ball court in which many, many people could sit and watch the games."
Installation view (left to right):
Korhogo cloth. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Hand-woven muslin, dye. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer. Lapa cloth. Liberia, Loma. Gift of Diana Hawks. Large storage basket. Liberia, Loma. Liapa vine strips, dyed with kola and indigo. Gift of Diana Hawks. Lapa cloth. Liberia, Loma. Gift of Diana Hawks.
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
1. Double gourd flask
ca. 20th century
Pewter
97.40.115
The double gourd symbolizes the union of yin and yang, heaven and earth, and good omens.
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project