Art Collection

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.

Rodney Troth (Artist)

Coming Rain

2003

Large landscape-based abstract: large grey square with multi-colored horizontal bands, blues, greens, yellows, plums, with gestural drawing element in oil pastels or colored pencil. Marks reach border.

Michael Smirl (Artist)

Cloud Walk

ca. 1984

Semi-abstract figures, childlike, with heavy black lines almost like heiroglyphics. Blues, browns, thick white layer around 6" of edge with dug-in lines and symbols, geometric shapes.

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.

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.

Jacques Hnizcovsky (Artist)

Fir Trees

1900s

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