April 27 – May 9, 1977
Art Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
Glenside, Pa. – An art exhibition and an art lecture will be held at Beaver College, Easton and Church Rds., Glenside on April 27 and 28. Both programs are open to the public without charge.
On Wednesday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m. an exhibition of drawings by Dorothea Rockburne will open at the Richard Eugene Fuller gallery of art in the Atwood library and will continue through May 9. Her recent “Drawing Which Makes Itself Series – Indication Drawings” will be on view. Gallery hours are 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. daily.
There will also be a gallery talk with an informal discussion of the topic “American Art in the 70’s” from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in the Fuller gallery. Joining Miss Rockburne in the discussion will be John Moore, painter and associate professor of art at the Tyler School of Art, and Patricia Stewart, art historian and critic. The discussion is open to the public. The exhibition and discussion are supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Forum Committee and and the Department of Fine Arts at Beaver College.
On Thursday, April 28, Lady Mander will talk on “The Pre-Raphaelite Movement in Victorian Art” in the college’s Little Theatre at 7:00 p.m.
Miss Rockburne is a native of Verdun, Quebec, and was educated in Canada and the United States. She now lives in New York City. Her work has been seen in numerous groups and one-person shows in the United States and europe. Miss Rockburne is represented by the John Weber Gallery of New York where her most recent show was held in November 1976. She is represented by several new paintings in the 1977 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art. In 1976 she was awarded the Witkowsky Prize at the 72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago.
John Moore is a graduate of Yale University and has been in numerous group and one-person shows, including the [Fischbach] Gallery in New York in 1973 and 1975, the Vick Gallery in Philadelphia, and “The Figure in Recent American Painting” – Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1974-75.
Patricia Stewart has written for “Arts Magazine” and has served as a curator of contemporary art in chicago.
Lady Mander is a biographer and has written lives of the Shelley Period (Godwin, Mary Shelley, Trelawny) and more recently “Portrait of [Rossetti]” published by the University of Southern Illinois Press.
At her home in England, she lives in a house given by her late husband, Sir Geoffrey Mander, as a memorial to the works of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite painters. As a lecturer on these subjects, Lady Mander often acts as a tour guide in the house.
Jack Davis, chairman of the Beaver College department of fine arts said, “The Pre-Raphaelite painters are too little known in this country, nor has their role in the formation of modern art been fully appreciated. However, for those who are familiar with their work they provide an unending source of pleasure and Lady Mander’s talk will be an interesting event for all interested in 19th century art.”
