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Dr. Amalia Amaki and Dr. Carol Zippert, Advisory Board member listen: "The goal of mine, as I made the decision to collect, was that I wanted to see the collection influence people to love African American art and to collect it." ("Why I Collect - An interview with Paul R. Jones" from the The University of Alabama News press kit)
Stephanie Muñoz-O’Neil
Topeka KS
Library On Blue (2004)
Modeling paste, colored pencil, acrylic, crayon
2005.22
Muñoz-O’Neil made this piece while the library was under construction. It is whimsical, but a cool representation of the manipulation of space.
–Sherry Best
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John D Gorbutt
Topeka KS
Maple Hill Church (mid-20th c.)
Silkscreen
Gift of Pauline Cox Brown Pfuetze in memory of Dr. Virgil Brown
2006.29.9
I like the use of color and the Van Gogh-like technique but it is also disturbing. The colors seem to be competing with each other and there appears to be no life inside the church as the windows are all black. The subject matter suggests a serene, tranquil scene.
–Dixie Norman, Gallery volunteer
Richard Notkin
"Cooling Towers Teapot (Variation #36) (2001)
Stoneware
TSCPL Permanent Collection; 2001.25
107/150: America Needs the Kansas Spirit Album, music composed for Curry and John Brown by Topekan Dr. Kenneth McFarland, 1975. The cover depicts Kansas artist John Steuart Curry’s controversial mural, Tragic Prelude (1938-1940), located at the Kansas Statehouse.
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.
1. Travel case with bat hinges
ca. 20th century
Wood, bronze
79.17.18
"'The University of Alabama is pleased to be the permanent home of Mr. Jones' dynamic and diverse collection of American art...'" (from the The University of Alabama News press kit) Watch the video: uanews.ua.edu/video/2008/101508_pauljones_announcement.html
John D Gorbutt
Topeka KS
Maple Hill Church (mid-20th c.)
Silkscreen
Gift of Pauline Cox Brown Pfuetze in memory of Dr. Virgil Brown
2006.29.9
I like the use of color and the Van Gogh-like technique but it is also disturbing. The colors seem to be competing with each other and there appears to be no life inside the church as the windows are all black. The subject matter suggests a serene, tranquil scene.
–Dixie Norman, Gallery volunteer
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
Pictured: Jerry Reed, Sabatini Gallery volunteer
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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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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
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP
120/150: The Flood of ‘93, Topeka Capital Journal Special Edition
121/150: Topeka souvenir vase, found by Cyril P. Holcomb, covered in mud in his yard on the 1400 block of North Quincy, after the 1903 flood. Gift of Merle Holcomb
122/150: “For God’s Sake, Take Cover!” A History of WIBW-TV and WIBW Radio’s Service to the Community Before...During...and After the Topeka Tornado, June 8, 1966. Bill Kurtis’s words saved thousands of lives. 17 people were killed, 4500 people left homeless, 550 injured.
123/150: Tornado: Telephone Teamwork in a Kansas Disaster, Southwestern Bell
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Large storage basket. Liberia, Loma. Liapa vine strips, dyed with kola and indigo. Gift of Diana Hawks.
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