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68/150: Topeka State Hospital: cupola, copper, Gift of David Bahm and George Meier demolition companies, 2010
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
Jim McHenry, Library Foundation Director, and Lisa Coble-Krings, Communications Editor, brought guests by for a tour of the Sabatini Gallery, specifically to see a recent paperweight gift in process of accessioning.
Associate Curator Heather Kearns led this leg of the tour, while Sabatini Gallery Director Emiritus, Larry Peters, showed them around the permanent collection and our Robert Sudlow paintings and drawings. Read their story here.
110/150: Margaret Whittemore – Old Cottonwood Tree near Topeka Statehouse, woodcut or silkscreen, c 1930s
Clarisse Laurent | Topeka, KS
Untitled roses (1907)
Oil on canvas
Gift of the Friends of the Topeka Library
1986.006
Asheville NC
Spirit of the Times—4th Century (2003)
Oak, mica, bone fossil, walnut-stained handmade flax paper, linen cord, 1800s rag text paper, Ethiopian coptic binding
Unique book
2009.4
Karl Nelson
Northfield MN
Cloud (2005)
Hard ground etching on paper
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
Printed Image I
2006.31
Cloud made me smile. I love the way this cloud carries inside it a layering of what appears to be bricks yet it floats on without a care in the world.
–Trish Nixon
I picked this for the contradiction. Clouds are light and bricks are heavy, which asks us to consider positive vs. negative space: is it a brick cloud, or a wall where paint has chipped off in a cloud shape to reveal the bricks underneath? If it is in fact a brick cloud, I find myself thinking of all the things to which I can compare this single image: deception, cynicism, disappointment—humor.
–Heather Kearns
Kathleen Winters-Myers
Macomb IL
Tic-Tac-Toe to Go (2004)
Metalwork: sterling silver, 18k gold
Topeka Competition 28
Friends of the Library Purchase Award
2007.11
What a wonderful, whimsical piece of jewelry. I love the idea of a wearable game! The piece is so well thought-out and fun.
–Zan Popp
Christine Stankard Kressley
New Jersey
untitled floral paperweight (2006)
Glass
2008.4
Christine Stankard Kressley is Paul Stankard’s daughter, the famous glass paperweight maker. His kids helped him in the studio where he taught them the art of glass making. Paul was first a botanist, and it is clear that Christine inherited an interest in plants and flowers.
–Sherry Best
Sandals, Liberia (Loma)
Leather; 20th c.
Gift of Diana Hawks
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Permanent Collection, 2006.13.15ab
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6/150: Charles L. Marshall, “Old Settler’s Cabin, Gage Park”, lithograph, 1936. Swedish settler Adam Bauer, near Watson, hewed logs flat on the front and back when they built cabins. Harry C. Snyder, commissioner of parks, moved it to Gage Park in 1933, as part of the Old Settler’s Memorial Grounds. The heirs of Guilford Gage donated 80 acres of land to Topeka in 1899. The deed stated that the park was for the "benefit of the health, comfort and recreation of the citizens of Topeka and their friends...” Gage Park is now home to the Topeka Zoo and Helen Hocker Theater, and lovely rose parks. 75.1.21
Miniature tsarouhis, Greece
Leather, silk; 20th c.
Gift of Annie B. Sweet
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Permanent Collection, S-17
Alabama
Linsey-Woolsey (2008)
Handmade linen and wool paper,
etching, linen thread
Edition of 2
I love handmade paper and this paper is especially interesting to me. Amy has taken a plant-based fiber (linen from the flax plant) and an animal-based fiber (wool) and processed them together to create paper. This “linsey-woolsey” paper is not just beautiful, it also has a wonderful texture. The paper really embodies the message of the text.
–Brea Black