Artist Biographies
Keith Achepohl (1934-2018)
Keith Achepohl (1934-2018) received a B.A. from Knox College, an M.F.A. degree from The University of Iowa, and honorary doctorates from Pacific Lutheran University and Knox College. Read more…
History of the State of Mind Series:
Each of these lithographs comes from a series of 6 printed at Lakeside Studio in 1975. These prints can be found at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Davidson College.
Harold Altman (1924-2003)
Born in New York City in 1924, Altman has been recognized by critics as one of the top graphic artists in the United States and ranked among the finest printmakers in the world. Read more…
History of Park Reader:
This etching is a thoughtful rendering of a figure engaged in reading while in the park. This print can be found at the Whitney Museum.
Richard Black (1932-2020)
Richard Black is a highly regarded printmaker who has made a significant contribution over the years to the arts in Iowa. Read more…
Christo and Jeanne Claude (1935-2020 and 1935-2009)
While Christo and Jeanne Claude are known for large installations like The Gates in Central Park or wrapping of L’Arc de Triomphe, Christo and Jeanne Claude created smaller works such as the ones featured here primarily to fund their larger projects. Read more…
History of Package on Radio Flyer Wagon:
This piece was printed at Landfall Press which represents Jeannette Pasin Sloan, a well-known artist and granddaughter of Mr. Antonio Pasin. Read more…
History of Wrapped Snoopy House:
This piece was created for the Charles M. Schulz Museum
Warrington Colescott (1921-2018)
Warrington Wickham Colescott Jr. (March 7, 1921 – September 10, 2018) was an American artist, he is best known for his satirical etchings. Read more…
History of Woodlot:
My parents, Christopher and Janet Graf, took their inspiration for their art gallery, Woodlot, from this work of art. Woodlot art gallery was located in the woods of Sheboygan County and our family had a regular collection of bicycles parked on the driveway.
Ken Danby (1940-2007)
Ken Danby (1940-2007) was one of Canada’s foremost artists; a painter and printmaker of international renown best known for his realist style. Read more…
History of Early Autumn:
Early Autumn has many of the same qualities of several of Danby’s works including Looking Off, Boy in Thought, The Sun Catcher, Looking In and Boy on a Chair where contemplation and serenity are key elements of the composition.
John Fincher (1941-)
Born in Hamilton, Texas, in 1941, John Fincher earned his MFA from University of Oklahoma in 1966. The artist’s works have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and have been represented in important group exhibitions at such significant venues as SITE Santa Fe, the Aspen Art Museum, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
His work resides in major public institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History. Read more…
John Gibson
“Although I have painted balls exclusively for over 25 years, I don’t really care that much about them. Of course I’m attracted to them just like anybody else; I admire their endlessness and mystery. I love the way they can stand in for all sorts of unknowns and even the way a circle, or a shape of some kind sits on the surface of a ball and bends into space. But I don’t paint balls because of any of that, or because I think they have some significance or “meaning”. I paint balls because they are the most simple and fundamentally different thing from the flat surface of a painting that I can think of. I like that elegant opposition of forces. Every day I try to wring a “real” ball out of a flat surface and every day I can’t quite do it. In the good paintings there is some residue of that effort and in the best paintings there is a lot. In many ways then the subject of these paintings-at least for me- is just that residue: a wish for something that cannot be had, a version of a ball overlaid with desire.”
Raymond Gloekler (1928-)
Internationally renowned printmaker, Raymond Gloeckler, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He taught arts education throughout the state including UW-Oshkosh and for over thirty years at his alma mater, UW-Madison. Read more…
Background information on Big Biker:
The Wisconsin Arts Council commissioned a portfolio of works from notable Wisconsin printmakers in 1971. Raymond Gloekler was one of the artists included in this work. The woodblock print, Big Biker, was part of this landmark publication.
Will Holub
This website represents an overview of Will Holub’s abstract paintings from the mid-1970s to the present day. Read more…
Allen Jones (1937-)
Allen Jones RA (born 1 September 1937) is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. Read more…
Robert Lostutter (1939-)
Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and later. Read more…
Robert Lostutter blurred the distinction between human, plant, and animal. Returning from a trip to Mexico in the 1970s, Lostutter became increasingly mesmerized by the otherworldly beauty of the tropical birds he had encountered in his travels. Subsequently, he began to make drawings and paintings of bird-men transfigured by multicolored and richly textured feathers. Read more…
Dean Meeker (1920-2002)
Born in Orchard, Colorado in 1920, Dean Meeker began his art career humbly painting posters in high school. He went on to become an internationally known printmaker and sculptor, receiving many major awards, and spending forty-six years on the art faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read more…
Background information on Manchera Rotto:
The Wisconsin Arts Council commissioned a portfolio of works from notable Wisconsin printmakers in 1971. Dean Meeker was one of the artists included in this work. The lithograph Manchera Rotto was part of this landmark publication. Meeker spent a summer working in a carnival. He drew inspiration from these experiences including Harlequin and Mardi Gras imagery in his work.
Yet another combination silk-screen and collagraph, this example of Meeker’s work also repeats the theme of the single figure, which in this case is wearing a damaged mask that inspired the print’s Italian title. The print is a proof from an edition of 40 produced in 1971. Meeker was one of ten Wisconsin printmakers commissioned that year by the Wisconsin Arts Council to produce an edition limited to forty signed copies. One of those forty portfolios of ten prints is housed at the Library of Congress.
Mary Mito (1944-)
Mary Neumuth Mito was born in 1944 in New Canaan, CT and studied art at the Silvermine College of Art before enrolling at the School of Visual Arts in New York where she later taught drawing for several years. Mito has had a long artistic career starting well before her first solo exhibition at the O.K. Harris Gallery in 1979. Read more…
Benson Moore (1882-1974)
Born August 13, 1882, in Washington, D.C. Learned the conservation of paintings from his father. Studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Edmund Clarence Messer and Richard Norris Brooke, and also with Max Weyl. Read more…
Frances Myers (1936-2014)
Frances Julia Myers (16 April 1936 – 17 December 2014) was an American printmaker. Myers was born on April 16, 1936 in Racine, Wisconsin. Read more…
The print Borzoi Watching is from an edition of 40 produced in 1971. Myers was one of ten Wisconsin printmakers commissioned that year by the Wisconsin Arts Council to produce an edition limited to forty signed copies. One of those forty portfolios of ten prints is housed at the Library of Congress.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Read more…
Depicting a serene view of two young women posing for their portrait, this extremely delicate work expresses the beauty and elegance of Renoir’s portraiture.
Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Georges Henri Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman and print artist, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Read more…
Miserere is Rouault’s most important graphic work. It comprises fifty-eight plates engraved between 1922 and 1927, and was published in 1948.
Qui Ne Se Grime Pas? [Plate 8] is the only clown face portrayed in Miserere. Read more…
Marko Spalatin (1945-)
Marko Spalatin was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He immigrated to the US in his late teens, and earned BS and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Spalatin has been exhibiting his artwork for over 40 years. His prints and paintings have been featured in over 70 solo exhibitions across the US, as well as in France, Croatia, Canada, Lebanon, Italy, and Slovenia, and in numerous group exhibitions in 12 countries.
Spalatin’s work is represented in many private, corporate, and public collections, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York; the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; the Musée d’Art Moderne and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Rochester Museum of Art, Rochester, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; the Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines.
He lives and works in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.
“I am intrigued by both the relativity of color and the mystery of light, and I am constantly challenged to explore their potentials. In my prints and paintings, I use geometric forms in order to develop variegated color surfaces that capture light. Light falling on colored forms creates illusions of volume and space, suggesting a realm that could be entered.” Read more…