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IN THE DARK A., Pg. 81.

16” X 12”, gouache, 23K gold leaf on paper

 BLUES/JAZZ (tribute to Bix Beiderbecke)

MC Ginsberg: Objects of Art

110 East Washington Street, Iowa City IA

Current and Ongoing Artwork Installations

from

MOONLIGHT ON THE MISSISSIPPI, published 2015.

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MOONLIGHT ON THE MISSISSIPPI
9” X 22”, river treasures and indigo. Pg. 14.

ODE TO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER, PEARL AND HER MOTHER

thru March 2019

Muscatine Art Center, 1314 Mulberry Avenue, Muscatine IA

            Treasures from the river banks: shells, pearls, sticks, stones, gold, oil, indigo hues.

From the search for truth and beauty about Pearl, Her Mother and the River.

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER VIEWS
Figge Art Museum,
February 6 - June 5, 2016
Collection on loan from the Muscatine Art Museum

Mississippi River Views includes a collection of 60 paintings, drawings, maps and other river-related works from the collection of the Muscatine Art Center, whose Musser Mansion is undergoing mechanical upgrades. Beginning with a rare map from 1680 by Nicholaes Visscher, the exhibition includes drawings made on the river by Seth Eastman in the 1830s, and paintings of the river from the 1850s to the present day.

Meditations on the Mississippi: The Firmament, 2009, NL Purington
48" x 48", oil, gold and palladium leaf on canvas.

Represents a 21st c. response to the Mississippi River experience within this collection.

EXHIBITION SITES

  • January 2013, Hudson River Gallery - Water's Edge
  • October 2013, Minnesota Marine Art Museum - Tri State Invitational

TWELVE VIEWS OF WATER

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TWELVE VIEWS OF WATER touring exhibition of nearly 100 artworks funded in part by a Major Artist Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.  On loan to the Waterloo Center for the Arts.  Contact Kent Shankle, Curator, for tour information.

INSTALLATIONS AT THE WATERLOO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2009

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Recent Touring Exhibition Locations:

  • Dubuque Museum of Art
  • Clear Lake Arts Center
  • Muscatine Art Center
  • Waterloo Center for the Arts