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Calendar Emblem Lyonel Feininger: Works on Paper Annual Membership Meeting Charles Demuth: The Permanent Collection “From Bud to Blossom” Peter Selz To Speak At Annual Members’ Meeting Emeritus Professor of Art History at Berkeley, former editor of Art in America, and former curator at the Museum of Modern Art, will follow up his fascinating assessment of Lyonel Feininger’s work, in the catalog for the current exhibition, when he speaks before the Annual Members Meeting about parallels between the careers of Feininger and Demuth. The meeting is scheduled to be held on April 7 at a location to be announced. Current Exhibition — EMBLEM A Hit With Museum Visitors The current exhibition in the Demuth Museum is called Emblem, in homage to Charles Demuth’s familiar poster portraits: paintings of artists and writers he admired, rendered as portraits of their work rather than of the subjects themselves. Foundation Director Corinne Woodcock invited twenty-two local artists to create similar poster portraits, the response to which was rich and varied. Some of these homages from artists to celebrated subjects include Ron Ettelman’s construction for artists Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp; Ann DeLaurentis’s homage to glassmaker, Louis Comfort Tiffany; Steve Wilson, a dark landscape for Andrew Wyeth; Reed Dixon, one of Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup cans as “Andrew’s” tomato soup; David Reinhart’s for Paul Gaugin; Jerome Hershey’s deadpan portrait of faded Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter, composed entirely of waiting line tabs; and Brant Schuller’s collective portrait of all of the United States presidents. Four of the pieces commemorate local artists: Constantine Kermes’s portrait with corks for the late Ric Morgan, Jon L. Johnson’s for the late Charles X. Carlson, Fred Rodger for the late David Brumbach, and Dale Ziegler’s for longtime Demuth supporter Margaret Lestz. Emilie Snyder did a poster portrait of herself, and Robert Lyon contributed an unidentified woman. Several others – Paula Egolf, Bruce R. Fry, Susan Gottleib, George Mummert, Leonard Ragouzeos, Richard Ressel, Ellen Slupe, Lisa Troupe, Teri Traner – offered poster portraits of family members or friends.
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