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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
January 28, Fahamu Pecou lectured in Gorgas Library, the first in the Paul R. Jones Lecture series. Photo by Elliot A. Knight.
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Leonard Baskin (artist)
Robert Francis (poet)
The Pumpkin Man (1986)
Woodcut, letterpress
Gift of William P. Bishop in memory of Lillian Green Bishop
2009.34
When I was little, I had an elderly relative who had this kind of intensity of feeling in his face. I was a little afraid of him, but he turned out to be a very kind person. He had earned his face. He raised and canned his own vegetables, and had a great sense of humor. He lived to be 102, and was driving until the last year of his life. He’d go visit the 80-year-olds at the nursing homes.
–Sherry Best
Judith Lennox (Sabatini)
Topeka KS
Figure I (20th c.)
Gelatin silver photograph
Gift of John L. and Helen L. Petterson
2007.24.2
I am immediately drawn to the painterly quality of this photograph. Typically, one does not associate photography with the absolute minimal, which I find intriguing. Looking at Figure I, I am instantly reminded of self-taught Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer. His work incorporates painting and drawing. His mark-making though is much more intense, where the exposed marks in Sabatini’s Figure I are fluid and soft.
Figure I is a successful work because it teeters on the edge of painting and photography. I wonder if this photograph isn’t about the female figure at all. Instead, we are looking at the gesture of line and abstraction of the figure. Are we looking at a photograph, a painting, or are we looking at both?
–Trish Nixon
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11/150: William H. Bratton discharge, 1883 Bratton was a northeast soldier, the great-great grandfather of Phillip Menninger. Inside the case are campaign and reunion buttons. Gift of the Menninger Foundation 2003.27.35
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Leonard Baskin (artist)
Robert Francis (poet)
The Pumpkin Man (1986)
Woodcut, letterpress
Gift of William P. Bishop in memory of Lillian Green Bishop
2009.34
When I was little, I had an elderly relative who had this kind of intensity of feeling in his face. I was a little afraid of him, but he turned out to be a very kind person. He had earned his face. He raised and canned his own vegetables, and had a great sense of humor. He lived to be 102, and was driving until the last year of his life. He’d go visit the 80-year-olds at the nursing homes.
–Sherry Best
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Jean Bass
Topeka KS
Concert in Red and Blue (2007)
Fabric, silk and Peruvian linen
2008.5
I’m pleased to add one of Jean’s works to the collection. She has such a delicate touch with fabric, sewing, texture, and color.
–Sherry Best
Phil Epp
Newton KS
Adobe at Night (20th c.)
Woodcut
Gift of Bernard O. Stone and Becky Richmond
2005.37.2
I picked this because I like successful short-cuts. The gradual blue-to-yellow transition in this background gradient takes perfect advantage of the natural distribution of pigment “smeared” from one color into the next. Hand-coloring or printing multiple runs to add color was possible, but would have been more time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Epp manages to get the blue sky to end just where the earth yellow needs to begin to distinctly separate air and land. The dwelling seems shrouded in light. The mood here is one of isolation and solitude, which is really why I’m drawn to it. I imagine being there and having a great sense of focus and clarity.
–Heather Kearns
Asheville, NC
The Bad Sparrow: or My Pathetic Fallacy
(2008)
Paper, printing
Edition of 100
Heroes and Criminals Press, Asheville NC
2009.41
Gift of the artist
L to R clockwise from top: From A Drawing II by Nicolas Homosky, Loligo 13 by Larry Peters, Ming by Ken Price
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77/150: Dr. Karl Menninger’s Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Jimmy Carter, January 16, 1981. Citation: “Karl Menninger has taught us much about ourselves and our behavior. An acute observer and social critic, he has put into action what he has put onto paper. As an author and doctor, his works range from popular, written accounts of psychiatry to studies done in his own hospital, from creating homes for parentless children to reforming the penal system. With the wisdom of his years, he truly does represent the ideas of another generation – one of the future, rather than of the past.”
LEFT TO RIGHT:
John R. Burchetta | Lawrence, KS
"Audio Glass Series, KY-102" (1983)
Glass
Topeka Crafts Competition 7
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
1983.9
Vernon Brejcha | Lawrence, KS
Untitled (1979)
Glass
Topeka Crafts Competition 3
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
1979.9
Vernon Brejcha | Lawrence, KS
Stoppered bottle (1976-77)
Glass
Topeka Crafts Competition 1
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
1977.3
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
86/150: Wiley William Watson, “Old Bill Dollar If I don’t go to Washington, I will be in Topeka Friday – so many things one can buy then”, 1901, ink on paper (1883-1963), Gift of Kaw Valley Antiques
56/150: Topeka High School Yearbook, 1917. Aaron Douglas illustrated the cover. After leaving Topeka for New York City, he was an influential member of the Harlem Renaissance, and has been called “the father of African-American art.” The Topeka Room has many Shawnee County yearbooks.
Man's wedding shirt. Mali. Songhi, Bogon or Bamana. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris. Speckled pattern made from stamping.
Since words bat and good luck are pronounced the same in Chinese, the bat is a symbol of longevity and good luck. Five bats represent the Five Blessings: longevity, ease, riches, honors and joy.
A deer is the symbol of long life and is the only animal able to find the sacred fungus of immortality. It may also symbolize wealth, as deer and official salary are homophones (pronounced the same) in Chinese. To give a gift of a deer to an official taking a placement exam is to wish them luck with their potential raise.
5. Deer serving dish
ca. 20th century
Pewter, green glass, red enamel
97.40.71
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England
Shedding Light (2005)
Paper, Braille text, printing, felt
Edition of 150
The Bookery, London, England
2009.27
Heather’s book challenges us to look at books and reading in a different way. The reader has to figure out the coded message to decipher the text. The artist has given us a way to read the book, but it’s still not easy.
–Brea Black
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83/150: Dr. Cotter Hirschberg, How to Talk about… book, How the Body Works. Cotter Hirschberg was a child psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic, and wrote a series of these books about talking with children. They included anger, fear, going to doctors, and body functions.