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Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums

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Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints and Drawings

January 16 to March 25, 2007

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art

Introduction

Most Turkish names have functional meanings. By an auspicious quirk of chance, occasionally by determinism, some names provide an apt characterization of the bearer's talents or personality. So it is with the artist llgim Veryeri-Alaca, whose given name signifies "mirage" and married name denotes "speckled" or "spectral." Her variegated pieces, embracing such norms and techniques as collage, lacework, engraving, ebru (marbled paper), and watercolor, wondrously integrate her Middle Eastern (or specifically Turkish) aesthetics with her mastery of Western craftsmanship.

Although …

Prints And The Courtly World Of Mozart, University Of Richmond Museums

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Prints and the Courtly World of Mozart

January 28 to April 29, 2006

Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

Introduction

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756-1791), the exhibition explores the courtly world of the composer through prints of the period - from images of concerts and performances, to portraits of the composer, to scenes that capture the costumes and social mores of the day.

Selected from the collection of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, artists include Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (German, 1712-1761), François Boucher …

Why Draw A Landscape?: A Portfolio Of Prints By Contemporary Artists, University Of Richmond Museums

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Why Draw a Landscape?: A Portfolio of Prints by Contemporary Artists

August 20 to December 7, 2003

Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

Introduction

Why Draw a Landscape? features a portfolio of prints on the theme of landscape in contemporary art, commissioned by Crown Point Press in San Francisco and completed in 1999. Each of the eleven participating artists answered the question with a print that attests to the vitality of the natural world.

Collectively, this portfolio includes a diversity of artistic approaches, ranging from documentary accuracy, to expressive images, to abstraction in which areas of colors suggest the …

Reginald Marsh Prints: Whitney Museum Of American Art Portfolio, Part Two, University Of Richmond Museums

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Reginald Marsh Prints: Whitney Museum of American Art Portfolio, Part Two

January 8 to June 29, 2002

Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

Introduction

It is only fitting that this two-part, yearlong inaugural exhibition for the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center feature one of America's most important artists whose talents were honed during the 1920s and 1930s, a period when American printmaking experienced a surge in popularity. Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) created images that revealed the society and tempo of his environment and his time, and he was considered a Social Realist along with such artists as Isabel …