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GTU 2000-9-2
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Title: Board of Trustees: Art Exhibit records
Dates: 1981-2011
Collection number: GTU 2000-9-2
Creator:
Board of Trustees Aesthetics Committee
Collector:
Art Curator
Collection Size:
4 linear feet (4 record boxes)
102 images
Repository: The Graduate Theological Union. Library.
Berkeley, CA 94709
Abstract: Art and other special exhibits have been displayed at the Graduate Theological Union Library since opened in 1981. This collection
contains records from the the Trustees Aesthetics Committee and the art curator's office. Materials include flyers, slides
and photos of the materials and the display, correspondence, exhibit catalogs, and expense documentation.
Physical location: 1/L/3-4
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Board of Trustees: Art Exhibit records, GTU 2000-9-2. Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Collection was donated by Bonnie Harwick on September 2, 2000, and included files of the exhibits adjudicated by the Trustees
Aesthetics Committee. Additional files from the art curator's office were integrated into the collection during May 2011.
Part of Record Group 1, Subgroup C, the materials were from the library director's office and the art curator office.
Biography / Administrative History
The Graduate Theological Union library was envisioned as a public use facility that would regularly display art, sculpture,
rare books and historical material.
When the library building first opened in 1981, only the first level was available for display. The exhibits tended to be
small and usually featured paintings and prints that were for sale. With the completion of the rest of the building in 1987,
which added the second floor wall space and a rotunda of exhibit cases, more extensive displays could be shown.
During this period the exhibits showcased a number of artists and topics, ranging from local and unknown artists to famous
figures in the art world, such as Christo and Richard Meier. While usually featuring a single artist, occasionally exhibits
were based on a Bay Area collector or a religious theme (such as Evil). Besides Western artists, several exhibits featured
the work of Japanese artists, for example Keiko Nelson and Kazuaki Tanahashi.
The Trustees Aesthetics Committee oversaw selection of the artist or theme for display. Among the members were professors
in art and religion at the GTU: Jane Dillenberger, Doug Adams and Michael Morris. Often, the exhibit would coincide with a
specific class. In addition, Peter Selz, founder of the University Art Museum, later joined the committee. Terrence Dempsey,
a GTU graduate and director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St Louis, was also involved in determining (and
curating) some of the exhibits.
Primarily a venue for exhibiting art, the library has also displayed rare and special books, faculty publications, staff collections,
architectural displays, and GTU-focused exhibits.
| 1981 May | An Exhibit of Manuscripts, Incunabula and Early Printed Works in Theology at the Dedication of the GTU Library |
| 1981 May | Chagall Old Testament Lithography |
| 1981 Sept-Oct | Art in the Apocalypse |
| 1981 Nov-Dec | An Exhibit of Prints and Paintings on Paper by Evonne Kludas English |
| 1982 Feb-Mar | Glimpses of the Orient: An Exhibit of Color Photographs from the 70's by Daniel J. O'Hanlon |
| 1982 May-Jun | Set-design exhibit by Lauren Friesen |
| 1982 Nov-Dec | Karen Rasco, An exhibit of her paintings |
| 1983 Jan-Feb | Water Stone Light Spirit |
| 1983 Feb-Mar | Mason Hill Press display materials by James A. Dignon and Mark C. Livingston |
| 1983 Feb-Mar | BASIC: Bay Area Sacred Image Creators |
| 1983 Mar-Apr | World Council of Churches Display |
| 1983 Apr-May | Paintings by David Jones |
| 1983 Sum | Paintings by Marian Nishi |
| 1983 Sep-Oct | Treasures from the Sage Collection: The Dutch in Two Worlds |
| 1983 Oct-Nov | Watercolors by David Gregory |
| 1983 Dec-1984 Feb | Photopaintings, Phil Donahue |
| 1984 Feb-Mar | Male Medussas, Water Gods, and Cosmic Goddesses: 20 Drawings and a Painting by Eleanor Cleveland Anderson |
| 1984 Spr | Drypoints by David Gregory |
| 1984 Apr-Jun | Moved by the Spirit, drawings and paintings by William Mockus |
| 1984 Jun-Jul | Familiar Places-Changed Spaces, Monotypes with mixed media by Margaret Pearce Frank |
| 1984 Sep-Oct | Meditations: Mga Pagninlay, Art Meditations by Fr. Rey V. Culaba CSSR |
| 1984 Oct | Advanced Management Program for Senior Executives in Religious Management |
| 1984 Oct-Nov | Memories of My Ancestors: Intaglio Prints and Monotypes by Lila Wahrhaftig |
| 1984 Nov-1985 Feb | Moments in Light, A Flatlands Realist Encounters Holy Hill, oils and watercolors by David Gregory |
| 1985 Mar-May | Spring is on the Wall: Paintings by Nancy Chin |
| 1985 Sum | Creation Suite by Lila Wahrhaftig |
| 1986 Feb-Mar | Seeing the Face of Central America: Serigraphs and photographs by Brett Greider |
| 1986 Mar-May | A Shift of Power: Icons and Images by Liza Bancel |
| 1986 Mar | Life is not black and white: quilting as a thological medium: A MA thesis show by Barbara Dee Baumgarten |
| 1986 | Phyllis Magal, Creation: The Seven Days |
| 1987 Jan-Feb | An Exhibition of the Works of John August Swanson |
| 1987 | Idea and Manifestation: Louis I. Kahn and the Library |
| 1987 Nov-1988 Jan | Eleanor Cleveland Anderson: The Seven Against thebes |
| 1988 Jan-Mar | James Rosen: The Isenheim Altarpiece and the Ferrara Paintings |
| 1988 Apr-May | Christo and Peter Selz: The Running Fence Project Revisited |
| 1988 Nov-1989 Jan | Unity and Diversity: Bronze Cast Sculptures by Ann Homig Nadel |
| 1989 Jan | In Memorium, Jay DeFeo, A Selection of Paintings, 1986-1989 |
| 1989 Feb-Mar | Miserere Series by George Roualt |
| 1989 Mar-May | Frederick J, Brown Paintings |
| 1989 Jun-Aug | Antique Maps of the Holy Land |
| 1989 Sep-Oct | A Selection of Prints and Drawings: Including five engravings from the Book of Job by William Blake and Andy Warhol's Annunciation |
| 1990 Jan | A Prayer for El Salvador: Michael Tracy: Cruz de Sangre |
| 1990 Feb-Mar | Enwind: Sculpture to Encompass the World: Paintings, Drawings and Models by Nancy and Alain Gerbault |
| 1990 Apr-May | Artists of the GTU |
| 1990 Jun-Aug | Blaine Ellis, Soundings: An Archeology of the Spirit, An Exhibition of Photographs |
| 1990 Aug-Nov | Louis Kahn, Light and the Library |
| 1990 Nov-1991 Jan | Paintings and Drawings by Richard Overstreet |
| 1991 Jan-Feb | Domesticated Deities: Gods of the Chinese Peasant Family, Part One |
| 1991 Jan-Mar | Eleanor Dickinson: Crucifixions and Other Recent Works |
| 1991 Mar-Jun | Stephen De Staebler: Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings |
| 1991 Jul-Sep | Conrad Fenwick: A Selection of Recent Paintings |
| 1991 Oct-1992 Jan | Philip Morsberger: Large Oils on Canvas |
| 1992 Jan-Apr | James Rosen, Across the Image Fields: Paintings |
| 1992 Jan | Under the Scuds |
| 1992 Apr-Jul | Nancy Genn Paper Constructs |
| 1992 Jul-Sept | Art, Crisis, and Vision: Paintings by One-Stroke Brushwork Artist Kazuaki Tanahashi |
| 1992 Oct-1993 Jan | Sacrifices of Abraham |
| 1993 Jan-Apr | Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms |
| 1993 Apr-Jul | Oakland Mornings: Paintings and Drawings by Anthony Dubovsky |
| 1993 Jul-Aug | The Art of Laurie Gross: From Linen Threads to Community |
| 1993 Sep-Nov | Pursuit of the Spirit: A Group Exhibition Honoring the Birth of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art |
| 1993 Dec-1994 Feb | Watchers and Seekers: works by Seven African American Artists |
| 1994 Mar-Apr | Haggadot |
| 1994 Mar-Jun | Rene Di Rosa, Works from a California Collection |
| 1994 Jun-Sep | Katherine Sherwood: Secret of the Golden Flower Paintings |
| 1994 Oct-Dec | Blaine Ellis, The Architecture of Light: Sacred Architecture in Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Mediterranean Coast |
| 1995 Jan-Jun | Haitian Paintings: Works from the Collection of Albert Albrecht |
| 1995 Jun-Jul | GTU Staff on Display |
| 1995 Jul-Oct | New Perceptions of the Spirit |
| 1995 Oct-1996 Jan | Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS [Selections from national exhibit] |
| 1996 Jan-Mar | Keiko Nelson: Inner Diary, Installation and Paper Constructs |
| 1996 May | The Etchings of Ernst Fuchs: The Samson Suite 1960-64 |
| 1996 Aug-Oct | Mary Kellogg Rice : Fabric and Paper, A Retrospective |
| 1997 Apr-Jun | Ingrid Arneberg, Inspirations from the East |
| 1997 Jul-Aug | Made with Passion: The Vision and Calling of Self-Taught Artists |
| 1997 Sep-Oct | Receptivity: Mixed Media |
| 1997 Oct-Nov | The Symbol at the Center: Crosses from the Henry Rahn Collection |
| 1997 Oct-1998 Jan | Stephen De Staebler: Sculptures, Drawings and Monotypes |
| 1998 Jan-Apr | Durer to Delacroix: Old Master Prints from the collection of Harry and Herta Weinstein |
| 1998 Mar-Apr | A Spiritual Journey: Jan Eldridge Ceramic Sculpture, Prints and Collages |
| 1998 Aug | Signing a Life: Saul, David and the Wild West |
| 1998 Aug-Nov | Nathan Oliveira: Windhover Paintings |
| 1998 Oct-Dec | Cloak the Earth: Prayer Shawls for the Millenium |
| 1998 Dec-1999 Feb | Revelations: Selections from the Berkeley Art Museum |
| 1999 Jan | Keys to Worship |
| 1998 Apr-Jul | The Visible Word: An Exhibit of Ancient and Contemporary Byzantine Art |
| 1999 Jan-Mar | Anne Siberell |
| 1999 Mar-May | Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses |
| 1999 Apr-May | Places Within, Places Without |
| 1999 Jun-Sept | Real Artifice: Works on Paper and for Theater |
| 1999 Oct-Dec | Resilient Psyche: Representations of Women in German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of David and Eva Bradford |
| 2000 Jan- Mar | The Human Image on Paper: Works from the Selz Collection |
| 2000 Apr-Jun | Finding the Sacred Mountain: Sumi-e abnd Watercolors by Robert Kostka |
| 2000 Sep-Oct | Faces of Mary: Icons by Stephanos |
| 2000 Sep-Oct | Visions: Art Exhibit |
| 2000 Sep-Dec | Crucifixion and Resurrection |
| 2001 Mar-Aug | Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium, Contemporary Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings |
| 2001 Aug-Oct | Meditations on Remembering: works of Mixed Media by Judith Nilsson Spiegel |
| 2001 Oct-2002 Jan | Cleve Gray: Holocaust Series |
| 2002 Feb-May | The Image of Evil in Art |
| 2002 Jun- Oct | Jan Wurm: Paintings and Drawings |
| 2002 Oct- 2003 Jan | Jim Morphesis Paintings |
| 2003 Feb-May | The Sorrows of War: Kathe Kollwitz with German Expressionists Otto Dix, George Grosz and Erich Heckel |
| 2003 Jul-Sep | Protracted Meditations: Graphite Drawings by Linda Fleming |
| 2003 Sep-2004 Feb | Requiem for an Executed Bird, Junko Chodos |
| 2005 July 20-September 22 | Patsy Krebs: A Decade |
| 2004 Mar-Jun | Richard Meier: Jubilee Church, Photographs, Drawings and Plans |
| 2004 Jul-Oct | Outside Insight: Select Works from the Studios of Creativity Explored and Creative Growth |
| 2004 Oct-2005 Feb | A.G. Rizzoli's "Transfigurations" |
| 2005 Mar-May | Atheism and Faith: The Art of Leonard Baskin |
| 2005 Oct- 2006 Feb | Rouault's Miserere Et Guerre |
| 2006 Mar-May | De Staebler: The Winged Figure |
| 2006 Sep-Dec | Moving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond |
| 2007 Feb-May | The Swedenborgian Archives of the GTU |
| 2007 Oct-2008 Jan | James Rosen: Homage |
| 2008 Apr-Sep | Sr. Coriat Kent Serigraphs |
| 2008 Mar-Sep | GTU Faculty Publications (since 2007) Celebration |
| 2008 Jun-Sep | Mari Marks: Variations : Marks in Time |
| 2008 Oct-2009 Jan | Joel Isaacson: Walls |
| 2009 Mar-Jun | Eva Bovenzi: Messenger |
| 2009 Jul-Sep | Distilled Spirits: Works of Cherie Raciti and Susan Matthews |
| 2009 Oct-2010 Jan | Building on our Heritage: Graduate Theological Union Library 1969 - 2009. 40 Years of Member School Contributions to the Intellectual Life of the GTU; Graduate Theological Union Archives: 20th Anniversary, 1989 - 2009. Highlights from the Collection. |
| 2009 Dec- 2010 Feb | Book Art: Ido Agassi and Even Hoshen Press of Ra'anana, Israel, |
| 2009 Oct-2010 Jan | The C.A.R.E. Collection: An Exhibition and Lecture Celebrating the Memory of Prof. Doug Adams |
| 2009 Dec-2010 Feb | Book Art: Ido Agassi and Even Hoshen Press of Ra'anana, Israel |
| 2010 Spr-Sum | Al Pounder's Umbria - The Pulse of Place |
| 2010 Mar-May | Crucifixion Meditations: Drawings by John Steczynski and Aileen Callahan |
| 2010 Oct-2011 Jan | Robert McAfee Brown: Glimpses of What Life is Meant to Be |
| 2011 Feb-Jun | Imaginarium: Drawings by Bernard Maybeck |
| 2011 Sep - 2012 Jan | Connie Goldman: Silence, Stasis and Flux |
| 2012 Mar 15-Jun 15 | Art For Change |
| 2012 Jun 28-Sep 21 | Yisrael K. Feldsott: Earthen Spirit |
| 2012 Oct-2013 July | Imaging Religion: An Exhibit in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Graduate Theological Union. See GTU 2013-7-1 for exhibit materials. |
| 2013 Jul-2013 Oct | Who is Your God Today? New Religious Movements Research Collections on Display (display cases) |
| 2013 Oct - 2014 February | The Life and Times of Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: An Archival Exhibit (display cases). See GTU 2002-9-02 for exhibit materials. |
| 2013 Oct 24- 2013 Nov 24 | Jim Morphesis: Roses and Wounds |
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials in the collection includes flyers, slides and photos, correspondence, exhibit catalogs, and expense documentation.
Dates are from 1981 to early 2011.
The collection is organized alphabetically. The finding aid also lists the exhibits chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
Art--Exhibitions--Catalogs.
Art--United States--Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism.
Architectural design.
Graduate Theological Union--History--Sources.
Graduate Theological Union--Faculty.
Dillenberger, Jane 1914
Adams, Doug 1945-2007
Morris, Michael
Selz, Peter 1919
Dempsey, Terrence E.