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1997 Forces, Peggy Brown
Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
Exhibition Brochures
Robert Motherwell on Paper: Gesture, Variation, and Continuity
October 17 to December 13, 1997
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure, a process of emphasis. - Robert Motherwell
The renowned Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), best known as a painter, produced a remarkable body of works on paper. His drawings, prints, and collages show an intimate side of his visual sensibility and reveal the very personal "handwriting" of the artist as he responded to the subtleties of paper, both as a medium and …
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Steve Rosen
Exhibit Catalogues
A look at the works of sculptor Von Allen-McGowan and an interview with the artist conducted by Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Steve Rosen.
Wooden Mask, Jennifer Gunyan
Pensativa, Christina Loosli
Focusing Halo, Ai Childress
And The Chair Was Lonely, Kara Olsen
Approach, Ai Childress
Upward Spyral, Corey Judd
Untitled, Christina Loosli
Upper Case, Ai Childess
Evolution, The Hand Of, Corey Judd
Pensando En Mi Patria..., Christina Loosli
Art, Sam R. Kennedy
Parnassus 1997
Parnassus
The 1997 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Exhibit Catalogues
Mr. Fairbanks was a man of his time. His scrupulous attention to anatomical detail made him a super realist as he worked from the interior structure of the human figrue outward to an accurate presentaion of each turning of a mouth, drooping of an eyelid or flexing of a muscle. He saw the human figure, male or female, as an object to be venerated, a mirror of elevated spiritual and aesthetic vaules more than just simplistic replication. His works, whether religious, mythological, industrial or as versitic portraiture, carried the Fairbanks ideal that "The arts are created for contemplation and edification, …
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Exhibit Catalogues
Interview taken place on January 28, 1997 between Von Allen-McGowan, a sculptor at Brigham young university and Steven Rosen, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State Univerisity.
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, Gretchen Mehring
Exhibit Catalogues
Exhibition catalog for Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony, a traveling exhibition. "These tea bowls, with their intimate scale and individual personalities, simultaneously offer an appreciation of the past and the contemporary. The subtle beauty of traditional-style bowls contrasts with the more exuberant contemporary idiom, raising an awareness of the role that art has, and can play, in everyday life. As we approach the millennium in an age of mass production, consumption, and get-it-to-go attitudes, the words of Kakuzo Okakura are still relevant, "Do we not need the tea room more than ever?"