This piece has some documentation however it has not been officially accessioned. It may need to be re-presented at an Acquistions Committee Meeting. 6/28/13
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Illinois Landscape #156
Gregor founded the school of painters called the Heartland painters. The group acquired its name because of the emphasis it places on the Midwestern landscape. Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Illinois, held a retrospective of Gregor?s work in 1993-1994. His work appears in numerous notable private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. He also has exhibited internationally for many years. The 1993-1994 National Endowment for the Arts Grant award and the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts Lifetime Achievement Award are among the numerous grants and awards he has received during his long career in art. Gregor taught at Illinois State University from 1970-1995 and was instrumental in the formation of its exceptional art program. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor of Art, Emeritus and Adjunct in June 1995. He has also participated in several workshops and artist in residence programs throughout the United States. In this 1999 realistic landscape titled Illinois Landscape #156 Gregor handles color in an abstract manner. This method of handling color separates him from the regional landscape painters who were popular at the turn of the twentieth century. Gregor also paints in another style which utilizes an aerial perspective where the landscapes are viewed from above. He calls this series of paintings ?Flatscapes.
Thistle
Illinois Flatscape #45
Gregor founded the school of painters called the Heartland painters. The group acquired its name because of the emphasis it places on the Midwestern landscape. Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Illinois, held a retrospective of Gregor?s work in 1993-1994. His work appears in numerous notable private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. He also has exhibited internationally for many years. The 1993-1994 National Endowment for the Arts Grant award and the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts Lifetime Achievement Award are among the numerous grants and awards he has received during his long career in art. Gregor taught at Illinois State University from 1970-1995 and was instrumental in the formation of its exceptional art program. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor of Art, Emeritus and Adjunct in June 1995. He has also participated in several workshops and artist in residence programs throughout the United States.
Thunderstorm, Mile 35, I-25 Highway Colorado
Aeling received his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and his M.F.A. degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. His works appear in numerous private collections and notable public collections such as the Johnson County Community College and the Kansas City Art Institute. He is the recipient of grants from the Margaret Hall-Silva Sculpture Foundation, the Lowick House of Printmaking and the Autumnal Fund at the Kansas City Art Institute. Aeling captures nature in a stormy mood in Thunderstorm, Mile 35, I-25, Highway Colorado. His handling of color in this work provides an eeriness that suits the sinister cloud formation. The dark and foreboding clouds dominate the composition and leave little room for the terrain. Many viewers can relate to the ominous quality of nature apparent in Aeling?s clouds.
Yellow Rose with Bud
-when in storage this object is to be rolled around a large, Tyvec covered tube, tied loosley with twill tape and wrapped in a polyethylene dust cover.
Rockwoods VI.5
Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108
Clematis
Woodman studied at the prominent Alfred University, School for American Craftsman, Alfred, New York, 1948-1950. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence, Italy in 1966; the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980 and 1986; Bellagio Study Center, Italy in 1995; and the Visionary Award of The American Craft Museum, New York City, New York. She taught at the University of Colorado from 1979-1998 and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Colorado. Woodman was a visiting artist at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York and Scripps College, Claremont, California in 1977. She also was a pottery teacher and administrator for the City of Boulder Recreation Department from 1958 until 1974. Woodman?s numerous solo and group exhibitions have included the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, the Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work is in many collections worldwide including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; the Carnegie-Mellon Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Red One
Ilkley Woodland 1 & 2
Yvonne Rosser was born and educated primarily in Wales, United Kingdom. She studied further at the Kansas City Art Institute, earning a BFA degree. She taught at the Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri for many years and chaired the Fine Arts Department there. Rosser is an artist in communion with the sanctity of the real, presenting a spirituality of art in devoted, actioned response to the natual environment. Her tree representations, whether blackened by oncoming dusk or ashen by fire and bearing reborn fruit, speak to the cycle of spirit guiding all universal life.