This year the Friends of the Museum are excited to have eight artworks up for auction during the Harvest Supper.
ART FOR AUCTION
William Eggleston with Gun, Memphis 1988 Archival inkjet print 16” x 20”
William Eggleston with Gun, Memphis 1988
Archival inkjet print
16” x 20”
Counterbalance, Edition 60, 2014
Bronze, black and brown patina
20”H, 8.75”D, 26”W
Displayed in the University Museum exhibition, The Figure: Portrait and Bronze Works by Tom Corbin in 2014
Includes a signed book by the artist
Barrier Light and Waterfowl
21.5” x 51”
Prelude #16, 2015
Oil on panel
15.5” x 15.5”
Acrylic mixed media on canvas
16” x 17” framed
Creek, Near Water Valley, 2015
Oil on canvas
19.5” x 23.5” framed
Bottle Rockets Floral, 2000
Oil on canvas
28” x 28”
Gifted by Louis and Lucia Brandt
April – Dawn - blues
Until the day breathes…, 2013
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
29.25” x 41.25”
FEATURED ARTISTS
Maude Schuyler Clay
William Eggleston with Gun, Memphis 1988
Archival inkjet print
16" x 20"
About the art: This was taken in 1988 at Williams Eggleston’s house in Memphis. He has a collection of shotguns, which he collects along with many Leicas and other German cameras, and he was showing me one of his latest acquisitions in the stairwell. Hand rolled cigarette in his mouth, though some people have always wrongly assumed it was another kind of smoke. This photo is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and will be included in MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, her portrait book published by Steidl, with a foreword by Richard Ford. The book is currently “on the water,” landing these shores mid-November. Stay tuned to you your local bookseller Square Books for signing dates.
Bio: Maude Schuyler Clay was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Academy of Arts, she assisted the photographer William Eggleston. She moved to New York City and worked at LIGHT Gallery and then as a photography editor and photographer for Esquire, Fortune, Vanity Fair, and other publications. When she returned to live in the Mississippi Delta in the late 1980’s, she continued her color portrait work, for which she received the Mississippi Arts and Letters award for photography in 1988, and in 1992. In 1993, she began a series of black and white photographs of the Delta landscape. She received the Mississippi Art Commission’s Individual Artist Grant in 1998. The University Press of Mississippi published the monograph DELTA LAND in 1999, which received the Mississippi Arts and Letter Award in 2000. She was the Photography Editor of the literary magazine The Oxford American from 1998–2002. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The National Museum for Women in the Arts, among others. Delta Dogs was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, with a foreword by Brad Watson and received the MIAL Photography award for 2014. Clay received the Governor’s Arts Award for 2014. Her new book of color portraits, MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, will be published by Steidl in Fall of 2015, with a foreword by Richard Ford. She continues to live and work in the Delta.
Tom Corbin, Corbin Bronze
Counterbalance, Edition 60, 2014
Bronze, black and brown patina
20"H, 8.75"D, 26"W
Displayed in the University Museum exhibition, The Figure: Portrait and Bronze Works by Tom Corbin in 2014
About the art: The sculpture, Counterbalance, was unveiled for the first time at the Museum’s opening reception for the exhibition, The Figure: Portrait and Bronze Works by Tom Corbin in 2014. Limited edition of 60, signed and numbered. Finish is Green/brown patina. Counterbalance artist statement: Life is a balancing act. When one’s life is out of balance in relation to lifestyle, human relationships or work, stumbles and falls are inevitable. —Tom Corbin
Bio: Tom Corbin is an internationally collected bronze sculptor and furniture designer whose studio is located in Kansas City. Not only did his daughter, Ali, graduate from Ole Miss in 2014, but he also had an exhibition of his bronze works and paintings at the University Museum in 2014.
Bill Dunlap
Barrier Light and Waterfowl
Watercolor on paper
21.5" x 51"
About the art: “Barrier Light describes a series of work I have been engaged in since before Katrina and after, I’m fascinated by barrier islands, these slivers of land that separate shore from sea, how fragile they are and often maintain their own plant and animal cultures and ecosystems. I had the good fortune to visit Horn Island with John Anderson just before the storm, it was in pristine condition then, unlike now, but is constantly changing. This painting is however, invented, and is, hypothetically real, in that ‘it could be, but not necessarily.’ Art is in a state of flux just like the barrier islands and the light that shines on them.”
Bio: William Dunlap has distinguished himself as an artist, arts commentator and educator, during a career that has spanned more than three decades. He has paintings in prestigious museums and buildings; his exhibitions have been internationally renown; and his honors and awards numerous, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Mississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. William Dunlap has and MFA from the University of Mississippi and maintains studios in McLean, Virginia, Coral Gables, Florida and Mathiston, Mississippi. William loves Oxford and frequently visits and supports the arts around town and at the University. He is represented by Southside Gallery and will be having and exhibition there in November.
Philip Jackson
Prelude #16, 2015
Oil on panel
15.5" x 15.5"
About the art: “This painting is part of a series of paintings that he calls “Preludes”. In this series, these elegant, ghostly works openly exhibit the artist’s virtuosic hand and refined palette. Unlike some of the artist’s more elaborately constructed paintings, these freely executed, superbly expressive studies reveal the raw expressivity and energy behind all of the artist’s works. They are, in the truest sense, “preludes” for the eye and imagination, both of artist and viewer, that begin a journey of the soul.” —Bruce Levingston
Bio: Philip Jackson is an Associate Professor of Art at The University of Mississippi in Oxford where he currently teaches painting. Jackson received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio and his MFA from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Philip’s work has been shown in many national and international juried, group, and solo exhibitions in more than nineteen states; is part of the permanent collections of art museums in Evansville and Fort Wayne, Indiana; and is in over thirty private collections nationwide.
Terry Lynn
Legacy, 2015
Acrylic mixed media on canvas
16" x 17" framed
About the Art: In “Legacy,” Terry have painted over a historical photograph of an iconic building from the campus of Ole Miss. Being one of the oldest building on The University of Mississippi campus, the Lyceum represents Mississippi’s history. Using a photograph from the Antebellum period, Terry creates a historical narrative. Black, Blue, and Ochre strokes of paint ripple across the sky.
Bio: Terry Lynn received his BFA from The University of Memphis and his MFA degree with an emphasis in painting from The University of Mississippi. His work is included in numerous private and corporate collections. Exhibitions include David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN., Brooks Museum of Art, Dixon Art Gallery, Bayou Art Gallery, Sumner, Mississippi, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, and the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria. Notable collectors include Kanye West, Black Enterprise founder Earl Graves, Ralph White of Earth Wind and Fire, Singer/song writer Kem, Alonzo and Tracey Mourning, BET Founder Bob Johnson, Ulysses ‘Junior’ Bridgeman, and countless others.
Robert Malone
Creek, Near Water Valley, 2015
Oil on canvas
19.5" x 23.5" framed
About the art: The painting is Otoucalofa Creek, which is outside of Water Valley, MS. It is an obscure and mysteriously primal relic of a place that harkens to a faded time.
Bio: Robert Malone’s landscape paintings in oil capture the sublimity of nature; each canvas reveals the inherent spiritual reality of the beautiful world in which we exist. He has exhibited at the Nicole-Perry Gallery, Memphis,TN.; Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans LA; Yeiser Museum, Paducah, KY; Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS; Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN; Allen Price Gallery, University of Wisconsin; University of Melbourne, Australia. His work is in the corporate collections of AT&T, Ochsner Clinic, and the National Bank of Commerce. He has work in many private collections throughout the United States including New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Washington, DC; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; New Orleans, LA; Winter Park, FL; and Jackson, MS.
Glennray Tutor
from the collection of Louis and Lucia Brandt
Bottle Rockets Floral, 2000
Oil on canvas
28" x 28"
Gifted by Louis and Lucia Brandt
About the art: “My paintings consist of contemporary subjects used metaphorically. In my work I’m exploring various visual qualities of objects, as well as orchestrating ideas that I find alluring, such as: communication and relationship, time, narrative, childhood and adulthood, cosmic and quantum physics. My painting compositions are an interplay of the visual, emotional and intellectual.”
Bio: Glennray Tutor is considered to be part of the Photorealism art movement and the new Hyperrealism movement. Tutor is credited as being the first artist to merge Pop Art with metaphor. His work is included in private, corporate and museum collections, including the University Museum’s Seymour Lawrence Collection of American Art. His work has been featured in television programs like Seinfeld and movies like The Blind Side. Glennray currently works and lives in Oxford.
Carlyle Wolfe
April – Dawn – blues
Until the day breathes…, 2013
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
29.25" x 41.25"
About the art: The shapes in this watercolor were created using stencils – made from the silhouettes of Carlyle’s spring plant drawings. The colors in this watercolor are based on Carlyle’s color study from an April sunrise.
Bio: Carlyle received a BFA in painting from the University of Mississippi and her MFA in painting and drawing from LSU. Carlyle has exhibited and participated in juried shows all over the Southeast with her drawings and paintings. She has won several awards and grants, from a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Rob and Leath Spiller Award, just to name a few. Carlyle taught part-time in the Art Department at the University of Mississippi for 10 years and, presently, for the first time Carlyle is working full-time in her studio.
In-person and phone bids can be made at the UM Museum. All absentee bids and/or telephone bid should be made to the Museum by 5 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2015. We may not be able to properly execute the bids received after that time. For more information, please call 662.915.7073.
Auction to take place during Harvest Supper.