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Walter Hatke
Topeka KS
Bertrand Russell (1965-66)
Conté on paper
Gift of Bernard O. Stone & Becky Richmond
2005.2.7
I picked this because I like gesture drawing. Well executed, it can capture essential information in a matter of seconds. There’s no time to think or edit. It is unaffected. Gesture drawing is low-tech, unfussy, and portable. I can make one at the DMV, at the doctor’s office, at a bar, on vacation—at a bar on vacation. Gesture drawings can stand alone or become the foundation of your work—a ghost living beneath finished surfaces, virtually undetected. Making several a day keeps me flexible and aware of critical detail.
Gesture drawings to an artist are like scales and arpeggios to a musician, or warm-up stretches for a ballet dancer. Gesture drawing keeps you sharp and limber.
–Heather Kearns
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
Masks left to right: Face mask. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg. Face mask. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Wood. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris. Face mask. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Baule. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg.
Background: Lapa cloth. Sierra Leone. Tie-dyed cloth. On loan fron Tim and Jett Elmer.
Arman 'The Red Faucet' (Der rote Wasserhahn), 1973, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Q & A about illuminated manuscripts.
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: Cityscape
Anthony Lazorko
Truck Stop, 2008
Wood block, multicolored
Friends of the Library Purchase Award, Printed Image 3, 2010.040
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.
— Piet Mondrian, painter and printmaker
How can you tell that each of these prints are part of a city?
Can you find the buildings and roads?
Are you flying overhead or walking down the street?
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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Frances Watson
How We Lost the Mermaid’s Song, 2006
Paper, linocut
Edition of 10; Cloverleaf Studio, San Diego, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
I have a folk art collection that has a number of mermaids in it. I often make drawings from figures. At some point I made the linocut and put her in an ocean setting. I guess about the same time our resident mockingbird began his early morning concerts—the poem began—and the book was made.
How We Lost the Mermaid’s Song
The last mermaid, it is said sang a tempting song. She taught it to the flying fish who thought it much too long.
They sang it to the frigate bird who just was passing by. He sang the song from start to end then took it to the sky.
In the sky he met a mocking bird whose voice was beyond belief. He sang the song to the bird then disappeared beyond the reef. Now this bird was made for song. Sadly his memory was not that long in his wee brain he filed the tune and said “All is well. I’ll sing it soon.”
But when time came he tried and tried finally just laid down and cried “It’s lost, it’s lost, oh woe of woes I can’t remember how it goes.”
Teresa Johnston Basketry
On display in the TSCPL Rotunda through June 2009
Check out Teresa Johnston's Flickr page
LEFT TO RIGHT:
"Shelter" by Ron Hinton; 2002. Photoetched bronze with stainless steel and copper. Friends of the Library Purchase Award (Topeka Competition 27; 2005.14). Photoetching is the process that is used in computer micro-circitry. The image is a map of Northern Territories in Canada.
"Solitude" by Ron Hinton; 1987. Copper with photoetching. Friends of the Library Purchase Award (Topeka Competition 12; 1988.14)
Ron Hinton is from Lawrence, Kansas and now lives in Olympia, Washington. He earned his BFA and MFA from the University of Kansas. Hinton says, "My Work melds the historical and traditional aspects of the metalsmithing craft with contemporary forms and modern technical processes. In each piece of art, I try to create a visual rhythm through the use of negative space and repeating angles. Space and weight are balanced and counterbalanced. Whether using my own computer generated drawings, archival photographs, or satellite imagery, my goal is to achieve a timelessness in both form and image, while still retaining the warm and appealing qualities of the metal."
—Artist statement from the Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
Abstraction: Non-Objective
Lee Bontecou
Untitled, 1973
Serigraph
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2000.018
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas. — Arshile Gorky, painter
Malachite makes green.
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.
Lindsay Smith
"Symbol #6" (2004)
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2004. 36.1
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
David Hicks Overmyer
Iago, c.1930s
Oil on Canvas
Gift of the Topeka Art Guild
1979.016.040
David Hicks Overmyer was a Topeka native recognized throughout the state for his work as an artist, illustrator and muralist.
Overmyer was influenced by the work of Maxfield Parrish and the new Art Deco style. These influences can be seen in Overmyer’s use of curvilinear forms, bold colors and sharply defined outlines in his painting Iago.
David Overmyer
untitled (20th century)
Painting
Gift from JoAnn Myers, 2004.13.1
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.
Lapis lazuli makes blue.
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.
Wedding garments
Sierra Leone
On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer, worn by them at their wedding.
LEFT: Men's overgarment (aka Big Man’s garment) / Cotton damask, embroidery
MIDDLE: Men's short shirt / Cotton damask, embroidery
RIGHT: Woman’s wedding dress / Tie-dye cotton, embroidery
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.
4. Bamboo teapot
ca. 20th century
Pewter, jade, Yixing clay
97.40.29
This teapot is shaped like the bamboo plant.
American Red Cross Nurse uniforms on loan from the Kansas Capital Area.
We partnered this year to raise needed supplies for area veterans and sent holiday postcards to service members overseas.
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Dragon robe
ca. 20th century
Silk, gold and silver thread, mirror
74.10.1
The dragon is a symbol of male vigor, fertility, ultimate abundance, prosperity and good fortune. It is the symbol of the Emperor. The dragon, as a divine mystical creature, is the symbol of the natural world, adaptability and transformation.
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum is a Slovak-Dutch museum of post-war visual art situated on the Danube river outside Bratislava, established in 2000
Shou is the Chinese character symbolizing longevity or immortality. There are over 100 various ways to represent this symbol. The shou character is often depicted with other symbols of longevity, like the bat and crane. When the two are given as a wedding gift, they symbolize a wish for many years of married life.
2. Peach-shaped lacquered box
ca. 20th century
Lacquer, papier-mâché, red and gold paint
97.40.156
In terms of the decorative arts, lacquerware refers to variety of
techniques used to decorate wood, metal or other surfaces.
4. Bracelet
ca. 20th century
Carnelian, silver
97.40.316
5. Pair of spoons
ca. 20th century
Metal
97.40.143ab
According to artic.edu/aic: "Robert Smithson helped pioneer the Earthworks movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, which took as its subject the creation of art within and from the landscape. His Site/Nonsite pieces bring the physical properties and materials of the earth into the gallery, thereby extending the traditional confines of the exhibition space while creating entirely new parameters for contemporary sculpture. Chalk Mirror Displacement belongs to a series of works, created during 1968–69, that combines mirrors and organic materials called “Mirror Displacements.” In 1969 this piece was exhibited concurrently at the “Site” location where the materials originated—a chalk quarry in Oxted, York, England—and the “Nonsite” location, the seminal exhibition When Attitude Becomes Form at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. This simultaneous presentation is a rarity among Smithson’s Site/Nonsite works."
Abstraction: Non-Objective
If you found these two pieces buried in your backyard, how would you describe them to a friend over the phone? Compare and contrast: Which ceramic piece is realistic and which is abstract?
Ken Price
Ming, 1998
Ceramic
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2008.030
In 2015, the Walker celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding as a public art center dedicated to presenting and collecting the art of our times. Curated by the Walker’s executive director Olga Viso and guest curator Joan Rothfuss, the exhibition looks at 75 years of collecting at the Walker—a history distinguished not only by bold and often risk-taking choices but also acquisitions that have consistently breached the boundaries of media or disciplines.
Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections is on view from October 16, 2014 to September 11, 2016 in Galleries 4, 5, 6.
Curators: Olga Viso and Joan Rothfuss, with Andrew Blauvelt, Jill Vuchetich, and Mia Lopez
Nature
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Keith Achepohl
Yield from the Sea III, 2002
Intaglio, chine-colle
TSCPL permanent collection, 2005.7
Achepohl says “Picasso and Matisse show us the need to return to nature, to observe firsthand, to climb out of our skull of certainty and see again of for the first time.”
He is known primarily for this watercolors and prints. Much of the inspiration for his work comes from his extensive travels in the Mediterranean, in particular Egypt and Turkey. Other works reflects his interest in nature through the sensitive depiction and interpretation of plant forms.
Susaku Arakawa 'The Given' (Das Vorgegebene), 1972, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Curate This! 2014 title wall
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.
Trudie Teijink
"They Drove Through the Night" (2005)
TSCPL Permanent Collection, 2006.35
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
The Music Pack | Michael Berkley, Ron Van der Meer
Alfred A, Knopf, Inc., New York, 1994; Conceived, devised, devised, paper-engineered and produced by Van der Meer Paper Design, Ltd.
“The Music Pack is filled with musical discovery and diversion: with paper interments you can take out and play, with instructive pop-ups, and with 3-D models.”
The Music pack is not a history of music. It is rather, a look at the development of sound into music and at what musicians do when they sing and play.
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)
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Joanne Price
Palm Tree Story, 2010
Text adapted from Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Tradition
Paper, letterpress, engraving
Edition of 100
TSCPL Permanent Collection
The Palm Tree Story is a Columbian oral tale chronicling a little boy’s quest to help three men who had set out to find their fortunes. Along the way the boy encounters continual resistance and rejection from the three men, but he endures their trials and outwits an old woman with evil intentions. The boy guides the men to a fortuitous future despite their cruelty.
Installation view left to right:
Man's shirt. Sierra Leone. Mudcloth. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer. Two face masks with birds. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Dan. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris. Man's wedding shirt. Mali. Songhi, Bogon or Bamana. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris. Speckled pattern made from stamping.
Fionnuala Hart Gerrity
Mythological Bestiary, 2010
Vegetable parchment, letterpress, watercolor, fabric
Edition of 12
TSCPL Permanent Collection
This book uses the medieval tradition of the bestiary to introduce mythological creatures from various cultures. I wanted to marry the aesthetic of illuminated manuscripts with more modern printmaking methods to create an edition that would maintain the feel of a hand written work.
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74/150: J. Dawson, Dr. Karl Menninger, The Psychiatrist’s Psychiatrist, acrylic on board and canvas, c 1969, Gift of the Menninger Foundation
Yellow ochre makes yellow!
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.