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EXHIBITION CATEGORIES


Decorated Pottery


Illustration


Prints


Drawing


Photography


Sculpture


Painting


About the Exhibition and Website


The Pieces in the Exhibition


CONTRIBUTORS....
and Acknowledgments...


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Listing of Pages at this Website


© 1997, Chris Witcombe and Sweet Briar College


What is Art .... ?
                     .... What is an Artist ?


An exhibition exploring the perception of ART     
and the identity of the ARTIST     
through HISTORY     
and in CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY     


The Pieces in the Exhibition

DECORATED POTTERY

Lekythos
Greek
Attic Red Figure - circa 5th Century BCE
Ceramic
Sweet Briar College Art Collection


Pre-Columbian Pot
Chirique, Panama
Sweet Briar College Art Collection


Joe Monk
Untitled, 1988
Clay, glaze, pencil, conté pastel
Collection of Joe Monk


ILLUSTRATION

Feast of Corpus Christi
Italian
Choir Book page - 15th century
Ink on vellum


Louise Bourgeois
American
The Puritan, 1989-96
Text & hand colored etchings on hand-made paper
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of the Friends of Art


Kalakacaryakatha
Indian
1550
Ink and tempera on paper
Sweet Briar College Art Collection


PRINTS

Albrecht Dürer
German
The Prodigal Son Amid the Swine, 1496
Engraving
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of the Friends of Art


Laura Pharis
American
Baby's House, 1994 Water-based monoprint with chine collé
Collection of Laura Pharis


Kochoro Kunisada
Japanese
Beauty With a Letter, c. 1848
woodblock print
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Victor W. Henningsen, Jr.


DRAWING

Agostino Carracci
Italian
Madonna and Child, c.1580
Bistre pen & wash with white
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of the Alumnae Club of Pittsburgh


Kay WalkingStick
American
Mountain Synergy I, 1992
Charcoal Drawing
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of the Friends of Art


PHOTOGRAPHY

Sally Mann
American
Shiva at Whistle Creek, 1992, 1995
photograph
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of the Friends of Art


Tara Hartnett
American
HOUR #8, March 1997
photograph
Collection of Tara Hartnett


Anonymous
Feeding the Swans on Lake Day, 1915
photograph
Sweet Briar College, Alumnae Scrapbook


Andy Goldsworthy
English
Black Stone, and Red Pool, Scaur River, Dumfriesshire, 1994/95
cibachrome print photographs
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Magda Salvesen


SCULPTURE

Richard Miller
American
Diane Seated, 1900's
bronze
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Cordelia Penn Cannon


Sudanese Totem Pole Figure
African
wood
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Mr. Morton D. May










Susan Carter
American
My World, 1991
culvert & clay figure
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Commission by the Friends of Art


Lin Emery
American
Serendipity, 1981
bronze
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Mrs. Harold B. Whiteman, Jr.


PAINTING

Jan Both (circle of)
Dutch
Landscape
oil on canvas
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Bequest of Cornelia Lyons Wailes Estate


Richard Miller
American
Sunny Morning, c. 1930
oil on canvas
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Victor Henningsen, Sr.


David Johnson
American
Under the Autumn Star , 1997
oil on wood
Collection of David Johnson

Clarence Carter
American
White Supremacy, 1947
oil on canvas
Sweet Briar College Art Collection, Gift of Dr. & Mrs Horowitz


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