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Gift of Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen, 2003/2.79
Mark Bressler owned an Atlanta construction company that specialized in high-end woodwork for over 20 years. He returned to his hometown of Detroit to earn a photography degree at Wayne State University before attending Arrowmont School of the Arts in Tennessee.
Bressler has developed a style that incorporates motion with large sculptural forms. In Spirit Dancer, the turning process transformed chunks of burl weighing over 1,200 pounds into a graceful work that seems suspended in a moment of unfurling.
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In Cradles in the Sea, William Moore and Christian Burchard experiment with combining wood and copper in a seamless union of materials exposing the depth of human imagination. Moore’s carefully patinated copper, joined with Burchard’s extremely thin gourd-like wooden forms, creates a piece evocative of a fantastic sea creature or plant: alive, appearing to dance on its long tapering stems. The assembled piece is surreal and whimsical, but nonetheless retains a strong rational form. It is alluring because it seems to belong to a world separate from ours. Despite its alien nature, it remains familiar.
Receiving degrees from the University of Michigan, William Moore has spent many years exploring the sculptural potential of the vessel form, often using a combination of wood and non-ferrous metal turned on the lathe. Both the form and choice of materials play a role in the reception of the piece created. Christian Burchard has been working with Pacific madrone burl for several years. He likes the way it changes when it dries, allowing the wood to “find its own shape.” The resultant form is often warped, creating “attitude, gesture, and, when grouping these shapes together, relationships.”
from the exhibition Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, June 12 – October 3, 2004
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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Emil Weddige was born to American parents in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, from a lineage of French, German and Wyandot Indian background. He was nurtured by a loving grandmother who introduced him to the world of silent movies, circuses, vaudeville and magic shows, painting, and enjoying life to the fullest.
Some of these earliest experiences provided the subject matter for Weddige's artistry in an art form for which has has been recognized as an American master—lithography. He is the author of "Lithography", regarded as the definitive text on lithography by most college and universities in the United States.
Excerpt from Obituary in The University of Michigan Record, February 19, 2001.
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If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
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