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The crane is believed to live a very long life, so it is a symbol for longevity. Next to the phoenix, it is the second most important winged animal in the Chinese pantheon of animals. A pair of cranes is a symbol of long marriage and ultimate longevity.
A rooster is the symbol for reliability, epitome of fidelity and punctuality. Since the Chinese pronunciation for the rooster’s crest is the same as official, it is also a symbol of advantage. To give a rooster as a gift is to wish someone luck in attaining public office or a promotion.
1. Crane serving dish
ca. 20th century
Pewter, glass, brass
97.40.64
2. Pair of crane candlesticks
ca. 20th century
Pewter
97.40.78ab
3. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain
97.40.250
4. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain, jade
2005.9.1
5. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Milk glass, inner painting
97.40.287
To paint the inside of the bottle, the artist must paint backwards. A skilled artist may complete a simple bottle in a week while something special may take a month or more.
Installation view left to right:
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. IN CASE: Mortar and pestles. Tie-dye lapa cloth. Sierra Leone. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer. IN CASE: Cooking utensil details. Carry baskets. Liberia, Loma. Gift of Diana Hawks.
Marguerite R. Wright
Daisy Design Quilt, Detail
Drawing, watercolor
c. 1940
Kansas WPA Project, Permanent Collection
I don't know what this is, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
LEFT TO RIGHT:
Rookwood Pottery
Vase, 1923
Ceramic
Gift of Vera Rogletz
1980.024
Old Moravian Pottery
Vase, c.1900
Ceramic
Gift of Edward and Mary Wilder
1901.001.097
These two vases are of similar shape and design. The small vase is Art Deco while the larger vase is Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau vase is very asymmetrical in design and has graceful lines. The image of the flower is a typical motif of Art Nouveau.
The Art Deco vase by Rookwood has simplified and
streamlined the floral design down to its pure form with no
extra lines or details.
DETAIL
Andrea Deszö
Self Portrait, 2009
Paper, paint, thread, wood, LED
Unique
On loan from the collection of Peter Hirschl
My three-dimensional tunnel books allow glimpses into small, self-contained, magical worlds in which viewers can make their own narratives.
As the artist pulls you into her self-portrait — what does her story tell you?
Detail from:
Hatzikyriakos-Ghikas Nikos (1906 - 1994)
Portrait of a Girl, c. 1935-1940
oil on canvas
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery, Athens, Greece.
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Λεπτομέρια από:
Νίκος Χατζηκυριάκος Γκίκας (1906 - 1994)
Προσωπογραφία κοριτσιού, π. 1935-1940
λάδι σε μουσαμά
Μόνιμη συλλογή της Εθνικής Πινακοθήκης, Αθήνα.
Franz Erhard Walther 'Drei Sockel, Vier Sandstellen, Zwei Schreitbahnen' (Three Pedestals, Four Positions to Stand on, Two Walking Paths)
Accompanying Q&A text for Mitch Lyons' "B/W Coil"
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.
Franz Erhard Walther 'Drei Sockel, Vier Sandstellen, Zwei Schreitbahnen' (Three Pedestals, Four Positions to Stand on, Two Walking Paths)
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery, Athens, Greece.
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Μόνιμη συλλογή της Εθνικής Πινακοθήκης, Αθήνα.
Ethel Lillian Gray
Untitled (detail)
Drawing, watercolor
c. 1940
Kansas WPA Project, Permanent Collection
Dr. Tony Silvestri taught students at Washburn University how to create an illuminated manuscript. This is one of the pages he created.
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.
DETAIL
Korhogo cloth. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Hand-woven muslin, dye. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer
Roberta Lavadour
Diamondback, 2008
Flax paper, waxed linen thread
Unique book
TSCPL Permanent Collection
This book brings centuries-old traditions together: papermaking, bookbinding, and basket weaving. The artist learned this twining technique from her brother-in-law, a master weaver. This sharing of knowledge is also a time-honored
tradition.
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
The Art Pack | Christopher and Helen Frayling, Ron Van Der Meer
Alfred A, Knopf, Inc., New York, 1992; Conceived, devised, devised, paper-engineered and produced by Van der Meer Paper Design, Ltd.
“Filled with pop-ups, pullouts and mobiles, The Art Pack is a completely new way to experience artists’ use of color, line, composition, perspective and optics as well as a lavishly illustrated introduction to the history of Western art.”
The Art Pack is written for readers who have an active and committed interest in visual art, but not yet a very informed interest. It presents a practical guide as to how artists in the past achieved their visual effects and how to ‘read’ the images produced by these means.
Ron van der Meer was the first paper engineer to insist that adults could be as fascinated by pop-up books as children. His ingenious mechanics show graphic designers the full potential of paper engineering.
(Paper Engineering: 3D techniques for a 2D material, Natalie Avella)
More than 150 years after his birth in 1853, this exhibition reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects from his collection, ranging from diagnostic dolls to Japanese sex aids, and from Napoleon's toothbrush to George III's hair. It also provides a very different perspective on some of our own obsessions with medicine and health.
www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitio...
74/150: J. Dawson, Dr. Karl Menninger, The Psychiatrist’s Psychiatrist, acrylic on board and canvas, c 1969, Gift of the Menninger Foundation
Fred Hagstrom
"deeply honored" (2011)
Paper, silkscreen, fabric
Edition of 26; Strong Silent Type Press, Minneapolis, MN
TSCPL Permanent Collection
"deeply honored" is a story about the internment of Japanese Americans during the war. Carleton College took in several students under scholarship in order to get them out of internment camps.
Carleton’s first such student was Frank Shigemura, who enlisted after one great year at Carleton. He was killed in France. After the war, his parents were released and returned to Seattle. They appreciated what Carleton had done for their son, so they began a string of contributions to the College. This added up over the years, until the College President discovered that they were living in poverty and were giving a large portion of the income to the school. He tried (without success) to discourage them from any more contributions. Carleton has a scholarship in his name, and a room in his honor in our memorial hall. When his parents died, they left anything they had to Carleton.
The book is about this tremendous family and what they did in the face of one of the great injustices of our history. "deeply honored" is a phrase from Mrs. Shigemura. The text is from archival letters, including those of Mrs. Shigemura to the school.
—Fred Hagstrom
Georges Schreiber
"After the Rain" (1904)
Lithograph
TSCPL Permanent Collection; 63.535
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string...Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essay on Self Reliance"; New York, NY; Pyramid Books, 1970.
Lee Bontecou
untitled (1973)
Serigraph
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2000.18
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.
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Kitty Maryatt & 10 female students
Arch, 2010
Paper, thread, letterpress
Edition of 109; Scripps College Press, Claremont, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
On January 7, 2010, just days before class was to start, the Los Angeles Times published a fascinating article on contemporary women architects, highlighting a striking building by Jeannie Gang. Earlier this year, the brand new President of Scripps College chose the Genius of Women as her inaugural theme. What serendipity! This gave us the perfect inspiration
for our artist book: the genius of women architects. After extensive research and class discussion, a mission statement for the book evolved: Architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are
incomplete without human interaction.
Sample illuminated page by Dr. Tony Silvestri.
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.
The crane is believed to live a very long life, so it is a symbol for longevity. Next to the phoenix, it is the second most important winged animal in the Chinese pantheon of animals. A pair of cranes is a symbol of long marriage and ultimate longevity.
A rooster is the symbol for reliability, epitome of fidelity and punctuality. Since the Chinese pronunciation for the rooster’s crest is the same as official, it is also a symbol of advantage. To give a rooster as a gift is to wish someone luck in attaining public office or a promotion.
3. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain
97.40.250
4. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain, jade
2005.9.1
5. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Milk glass, inner painting
97.40.287
To paint the inside of the bottle, the artist must paint backwards. A skilled artist may complete a simple bottle in a week while something special may take a month or more.
Curate This! Curators' Statement
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.
Linday Lyke
"Beothuk Time" (2005)
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2006.36
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.
Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901)
Wishbone, 1878
oil on canvas
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Νικόλαος Γύζης (1842-1901)
Γιάντες, 1878
λάδι σε μουσαμά
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery, Athens, Greece.
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Διάφορα έργα του Νίκου Χατζηκυριάκου Γκίκα (1906 - 1994).
Μόνιμη συλλογή της Εθνικής Πινακοθήκης, Αθήνα.
Arman 'The Red Faucet' (Der rote Wasserhahn), 1973, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Norma Lockwood
English Ivy Quilt , Detail
Drawing, watercolor
c. 1940
Kansas WPA Project, Permanent Collection
Clockwise from top: SKRYPT blended stoneware vessel by J. Edward Barker Jr.; Tic-Tac-Toe to Go by Kathleen Winters-Myers and Shedding Light by Heather Weston.