Art Collection

Daniel Salazar (Artist); Lundberg Studios (Manufacturer)

Lavender Sweet Peas paperweight

2006

Iridescent pale golden round paperweight with lavender to purple flowers over the surface.

Joan Foth

Lower Silver Lake Road #2

1970

Stylized landscape in bright cheerful colors. Horizontal rows of brightly colored brush strokes like rows of plants in a field, long green brushstrokes are like corn leaves, some marks are almost floral. Yellow, melon, lavender and various greens and oranges make up the stripes that depict stylized plowed and planted fields.

Gesine Janzen

Summer Project #1

2003

Large brown wooded fence in the middle of the print (looks like a planter box); smaller green fences/planter boxes in the upper left and right corners of the print; plaid background; strips made of light brown and pale blue wood-grain texture. Production notes list light grey - aluminum lithograph plate; Sienna Brown - aluminum lithograph plate; brown - aluminum lithograph plate; green - wood block; black - wood block. All five elements originated as wood blocks cut by the artist. Three colors were transferred to lithograph plates and printed on a direct pressure flatbed press. The green and black elements were printed on an etching press. Printed on Okawara paper. A Lawrence Lithography Workshop edition. Currently on display in the Administration Lobby, second floor of the library.

Orval Thrasher (Artist)

untitled (woman in flower garden)

1900s

Woman in a white dress and hat surrounded entirely by flowers. Flowers, some may be wildflowers, are in purples, white, blues, greensm, yellows, oranges, and red - array of color reads left to right in the "rainbow" spectrum. Woman has her hands in the flowers ready to pick a bunch to put in her basket in bottom left part of image.

Jim Butler (Artist)

Mirage

1980

Lithographic bleed print on grey paper with deckled edges, soft luminous abstract image, architectural in nature, in soft greens, blues, oranges and yellows. All are blurred.

R. James Hunt (Artist)

Navone's Trip

1965

Front portion of an air liner with portrait of Washburn University faculty member Edward Navone with outstretched arms below the plane, on the ground. Painting depicts Navone's first trip leading students to Italy.

Richard W. Dishinger (Artist)

Sticky Fingers

1991

Three figures in black and white, a male on the left, a woman with a hat in the center and a woman with a purse and box at the right.

Sumi Von Dassow (Artist)

Invading Army

1997

Vase, stone polished with a dull red slip decoration of insects (ants) going through foliage. Body is of black clay. Two lizards. Has a Lucite stand.

Colette Bangert (Artist)

Field Garden

1966

Overall abstract pattern of small patches of transparent light green, yellow, medium gren, red, pink and orange within thin squiggly lines. Narrow light green border and a wider white border.

Philip Hershberger (Artist)

Apples or Tomatoes

1984

Room interior with oblique view of a dining table, with two boxes below the table on the floor. One box contains small round fruit with hints of red. Table is tan, floor is blue-grey/ Table top is in the upper portion of the composition.

Japanese Artist Unknown

pair of vases

mid 1900s

Small, tall necked bud type vases, one light blue, other pale pink, both with flowers and foliage on body with one black and yellow butterfly on one side.

Jacques Hnizcovsky (Artist)

Fir Trees

1900s

Tall straight trees, positioned close, needles are only on upper branches.

Ernst Wahliss (Designer)

wall plaque

ca. 1900

Yellowish cream glazed pitcher; olive handle; four blue and green dragonflies on the body; neck covered with red and purple; gold on lip, base and handle; pitcher widens at body to form a round bulb; neck rises to lip; handle flows out of the lip and attaches to bulb at top of body

Artist Unknown

bonbon dish

ca. 1900

Ceramic lattice work dish and lid; light green glaze with rim edged with gold; covered with lavender and white flowers; two sides of the dish have large flowers with leaves and stems; two sides have large flower and small bud like flower; lid has three large flowers and three buds; one bud stands straight up and serves as the knob