Wednesday, November 14, 2007

TAM: Anne Appleby label

Here is the label text for the Anne Appleby painting that will replace the Mark Tobey in the front entrance stairwell.

 

Anne Appleby

Early Rose, 2005         

Oil and wax on canvas

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Rebecca and Alexander Stewart

 

Anne Appleby’s paintings reward careful looking. At first glance they are minimal: each panel a single color arranged with others in a grid pattern. Their surfaces, however, are complex and textured, built up with layer upon layer of subtly varied tones.

 

Appleby’s works evoke the slow but steady shifts of natural cycles. Each painting traces the seasonal history of a specific plant, here an early rose. She has compared her work to “the time-lapse films in which plants break through the ground”, where each small change is documented in slow motion then combined into a single, fluid transformation.

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Thursday, December 13 from 5:30-6:30

Can anyone lead a tour on Thursday, December 13 from 5:30-6:30 of Cecilia Beaux and the other galleries?

Gee's Bend will have closed by then.

 

This is a private tour for Russell Investment.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: Mark Tobey art switch and Chihuly Floats reinstallation

On Monday, November 19, 2007, the Mark Tobey mural that is hanging in the stairwell from the first to second and third floors will be switched with the following artwork:

Anne Appleby

Early Rose, 2005

Oil and wax on canvas

Gift of Rebecca and Alexander Stewart

2006.2 A-D

And there definitely is information on Anne Appleby at the docent desk and in the Art Resource Center.

The Mark Tobey was on loan from the Washington State Library and will be returning to the state permanently.   

 

The Chihuly floats will be re-installed on Third Thursday, June 19, 2008.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: Telling Stories art changes

The following artworks in Telling Stories will be switched out on Monday, November 26, 2007.

 

Some of the artworks are by artists that you already know or have seen in the recent past at Tacoma Art Museum. For those artists that are new to you (there are only a few), please research them in the Art Resource Center or elsewhere, and feel free to pass on any good articles or other info so that we can all benefit from it. I will be happy to add them to the docent resources at the docent desk/bookshelf.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Current artworks:

To be replaced with:

Roger Shimomura (United States, born 1939)

Minidoka No. 5 (442nd), 1979       

Acrylic on canvas

60 x 74 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of George and Kim Suyama

Marie Watt (Seattle, Washington, United States, born 1967) (active in Portland)

Tear Down This Wall, 2007                                        

Reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, and thread

61 ½ x 62 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of the Aloha Club, 2007.15

 

Claire Cowie

(Born Charlotte, North Carolina, 1975)

Sky Village, 2005                                       

Watercolor

104 x 52 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of James and Judy Wagonfeld and William and Lisa Holderman, 2005.44

 

Claire Cowie (Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, born 1975) (active in Seattle)

Villager XI (Two Trees), 2005

Watercolor

104 x 52 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from Rebecca and Alexander Stewart, 2005.45.1

Ella McBride (United States, 1862–1965)

Untitled, 1924

Toned gelatin silver print

16 x 11 1/2 in.           

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Richard Anderson and Martin-Zambito Fine Art 2002.15.3

 

Ella McBride (United States, 1862–1965)

Untitled, 1925

Silver print

13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Richard Anderson and Martin-Zambito Fine Art 2002.15.5

 

Imogen Cunningham (United States, 1883–1976)

Untitled portrait, ca. 1913–15

Platinum print

**dims.

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase [2000.6]

 

Morris Graves (Fox Valley, Oregon, United States, 1910-2001) (active in Seattle)

Autumn Still Life, 1952                                                 

Oil on canvas

36 x 53 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Miani Johnson, in memory of Morris Graves, 2006.35

George Grosz (United States, born Germany, 1893 – 1959)

The End of a Perfect Day, 1939

Etching                

12 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Carolyn Schneider Collection, Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker

 

Barbara Earl Thomas (United States, born 1948)

The Storm Watch, 1988

30 1/4 x 36 in.

Egg tempera on paper

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Carol I. Bennett

 

Walt Kuhn (Brooklyn, New York, United States, born 1877-1949)

Harlequin, 1918                            

Oil on canvas

38 1/3 x 24 7/8 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Charles Simon, 1981.13

Allan D’Arcangelo (United States, 1930–1998)

Modern Super-highway, 1969

Screenprint with collage and photograph, no. 69 from an edition of 120

21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches                               

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase

 

Luigi Lucioni (United States, born Malnata, Italy, 1900–1988)

Late Shadows, 1944

Etching                                  

12 x 16 1/2 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Carolyn Schneider Collection, Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker, 1970.192.3

 

Luigi Lucioni (United States, born Malnata, Italy, 1900-1988)

Vermont Splendor, 1944

Etching

10 x 14 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Carolyn Schneider Collection, Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker, 1979.192.1

 

Max Beckmann (Leipzig, Germany, 1884-1950)

Grosse Brücke (Large Bridge), 1922

Drypoint

10 3/8 x 17 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Thomas and Joanna Loehr, 2007.23

 

Steve Davis (United States, born 1957)

Jared, Green Hill from the series Captured Youth, 2000

Archival inkjet print

30 x 24 inches      

Tacoma Art Museum, Promised gift of the artist

 

Steve Davis (United States, born 1957)

Avery, Green Hill from the series Captured Youth,  2000

Archival inkjet print

30 x 24 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Promised gift of the artist

 

Steve Davis (United States, born 1957)

Benito, Green Hill from the series Captured Youth, 2000

Archival inkjet print

30 x 24 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Promised gift of the artist

 

Steve Davis (Sacramento, California, United States, born 1957) (active in Olympia, WA)

Earnest, Oakridge from the series Captured Youth, 2005

Archival inkjet print                   

30 x 24 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Vascovitz Family, 2007.10.1

 

Steve Davis (Sacramento, California, United States, born 1957) (active in Olympia, WA)

John, Oakridge from the series Captured Youth, 2005

Archival inkjet print

30 x 24 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Vascovitz Family, 2007.10.3

 

Steve Davis (Sacramento, California, United States, born 1957) (active in Olympia, WA)

Jose, Oakridge from the series Captured Youth, 2005

Archival inkjet print

30 x 24 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Vascovitz Family, 2007.10.2

 

John McLauchlan (United States, 1909–1999)

James Washington, Jr., n.d.

Gelatin silver print               

10 x 8 in.

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of John D. McLauchlan

 

Virna Haffer (United States, 1899–1974)

Untitled [Portrait of Annie Wright Student], 1931

Gelatin silver print mounted on tissue

11 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Babbie Morris

 

LaVerne Krause (United States, 1924–1987)

Self-Portrait, ca. 1959

Etching

7 x 5 3/8 inches, plate mark

Tacoma Art Museum, Partial museum purchase and partial gift of James L. Haseltine, in memory of Maury Haseltine

 

Akio Takamori (Nobeoke, Miyazaki, Japan, born 1950) (active in Seattle)

Self-Portrait Drawing, 2002

Ink and watercolor on paper                        

46 ¾ x 36 inches

Museum purchase, 2006.18

 

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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Recording Independant Study Hours

You may have noticed that we have changed the location for recording docent independent study hours.  I apologize for the delay in moving the forms to the new location.

 

Please record the time you spend researching, reading, and attending lectures or workshops in the Docent Log Book.  I have created an independent study log at the front of the book.  As a part of your commitment to docenting, the museum asks that you conduct 4 hours of independent study per month.  This can include study trips to galleries and museums, time reading catalogues and other resources, and attendance at studio art workshops or art history lectures.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you again for you commitment to learning and engaging museum visitors.

 

Susan Burnham

Manager of School, Teacher, and Docent Programs

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Threads that Bind Tour Outline

We hope you found the introduction to Threads that Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters helpful as you prepare for the exhibition which opens December 18, 2007.  Attached is the Tour Outline for the exhibition, based on the exhibition themes which Paula highlighted in the introduction.  Please let me know if you have any further questions.

 

More information will follow in the next couple months, including the dates the quilters will be working and demonstration techniques in the Open Art Studio.  January docent trainings will include a walkthrough of the exhibition.  We will be emailing a calendar of winter docent training dates in the next week.

 

Thank you for all that you give,

 

Susan Burnham

Manager of School, Teacher, and Docent Programs

sburnham@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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Veiled Northwest extended through May 18, 2008

Hello wonderful docents!

 

I hope everyone enjoyed yesterday morning with Mary Randlett!

 

As you may have already heard, the exhibition, Veiled Northwest: Photography by Mary Randlett, has been extended through May 18, 2008 due to the popular response. We are also excited to have the poetry connection between Denise Levertov’s poetry in Veiled Northwest paired with the poetry of Bob Holman in the exhibition A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman.

 

We hope that you enjoy the opportunity to continue touring this exhibit.  Please let me know if you have further questions.

 

Warm wishes,

 

Susan Burnham

Manager of School, Teacher, and Docent Programs

sburnham@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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Monday, November 12, 2007

This Thursday = 11/15 = Third Thursday = Docent Coffee + Artwalk

Hello Fellow Docents and Interesting People,

Come by, drink some coffee; see some art ... before the madness of
Thanksgiving starts!

TAM : Cecilia Beaux / Gee's Bend Quilts / Mary Randlett Photographs /
Telling Stories
http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/

The Museum of Glass : Mining Glass / Contrasts: A Glass Primer / Made
at the Museum
http://www.museumofglass.org/exhibitions/current/

William Travers : Thomas Farbanish : Verve + Nick Wirdnam : Portraits
and Memories
http://www.travergallery.com/current_exhibitions.aspx

***

A gentle reminder that this month's Docent Coffee / Third Thursday
coffee will be at Cutters Point Coffee, 5:00pm + with the same "No
Agenda" and same "No RSVP Required" policy as always!

Day: Third Thursday
Date : 11/15/07
Place : ** Cutters Point Coffee **
Time: 5:00pm +

The museums will be open free and late; the galleries will be open; we
can take the train to the theater district. No agenda is good freedom.

No RSVP; Just show up!

***

** As always: Too much email ?? Let me know if you want off this list. **

--
Regards,
Sanjeev

***

Sanjeev Narang
email: ask {*at*} eConsultant dot com
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