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1/16/06
GALLERY EXHIBITS 'ART & ARTIFACTS' OF SLU'S COLLECTION
CANTON - An exhibition called "One-of-a-Kind: Art and Artifacts from the Permanent
Collection" will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University
from Monday, January 23, to Saturday, February 25.
Part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration, two events will be held in
conjunction with the exhibition, which includes paintings, drawings and other
art objects and artifacts from the Permanent Collection. On Monday, January 30,
at 7 p.m. in the gallery, presentations will be given by students in the fine arts
class The Museum as Cultural Crossroads. On Monday, February 13, Williamstown
Art Conservation Center Associate Conservator of Paintings Montserrat Le Mense
will give a talk titled "The Adventure of St. Lawrence." Both events are open
to the public, free of charge.
The exhibition includes a 15th-century Gothic panel painting of the figure of
St. Lawrence, with a gridiron, the instrument with which he is believed to have
been killed. Recently conserved by Le Mense, the painting was presented to the
University in 1907 by Frederic Everest Gunnison, son of Almon Gunnison, University
president at that time. Le Mense's research on the provenance of the painting
indicates that it originally hung in a Franciscan monastery, La Rabida, in
Palos de la Frontera, a southern Spanish port town from which Christopher
Columbus sailed in 1492. Her lecture will describe the history of the painting and
her extensive work to conserve it.
Also included are ethnographic objects and artifacts such as Yoruba and Baule
carvings from Africa; a visionary painting by Amazonian shaman Pablo Amaringo; and
Tibetan Buddhist thangka paintings. Students in Lynn and Terry Birdsong Associate
Professor of Fine Arts Dorothy Limouze's course The Museum as Cultural Crossroads
share their research on these pieces in a public presentation, exhibition text
panels and a longer printed brochure.
In addition, the exhibition includes recent gifts from St. Lawrence graduates and
their families.
For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact the gallery
at 315-229-5174.
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