The Art Gallery

“Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock,
rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.”
—Simon Schama

The Arrival
Cliff McReynolds

Buffalo Bill
Artist Unknown

That’s How It Felt
to Walk on the Moon
Alan Bean

(on loan to the
Museum of
Modern Art,
New York)

Water Lilies
Claude Monet

The False Mirror
René Magritte

Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh

The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh

5 Works by Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha

Dylan
Milton Glaser

The Innocent Eye Test
Mark Tansey

The Lovers
Jim Burns

I Sat With 23
Bananas One Day
Zimmerman Skyrat

The Lament for Icarus
Herbert Draper

Pepper #30
Edward Weston

The Ancient of Days
William Blake

Title Unknown
Artist Unknown

Portrait of Heaven
Mark Alan Stamaty

Truth
Richard Hungerford

(Reserved for
future Art Gallery
expansion)

The Edward Hopper Wing A Review of Edward Hopper’s Art text by Robert Hughes
Room in New York Edward Hopper	Cape Cod Evening Edward Hopper	Night Windows Edward Hopper	Excursion Into Philosophy Edward Hopper	Nighthawks Edward Hopper

The Donald Roller Wilson Wing
The Man Has Left the Moon Tonight Donald Roller Wilson	The Clone; the Fuse; and Sister Dinah Might Donald Roller Wilson	The Entrance of Shirley Into Paradise Donald Roller Wilson	The Last Zeppelin Destroyed in the War, at Friedrichshafen Donald Roller Wilson	The Dog by the Lake on the Wall of My Room Donald Roller Wilson

In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt—a wind to freeze;
Sad patience—joyous energies;
Humility—yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity—reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel—Art.

—Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Chimp’s Painting Fools Experts

December 19, 2005
(AP) From correspondents in Moritzburg, Saxony

       A German art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.
       The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Dr. Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay. “It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour,” Dr. Schneider confidently asserted.
       The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo. While Banghi likes to paint, she is not able to build up much of a body of work as her mate Satscho generally destroys her paintings before they can get to the gallery.
       But this one survived long enough to give Dr. Schneider a red face. “I did think it looked a bit rushed,” she told Bild newspaper.

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