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| 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
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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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