Art History Library
Art for the Asking: The Graphic Arts Loan Collection Returns With An Exhibition At The Worth Ryder Art Gallery
The Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) at the Morrison Library has been checking out art to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty since 1958. After two years of being closed due to COVID, the GALC is back this year with an exhibition on campus and a new way to check prints out.
Art for the Asking: The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will take place from August 24-September 30 at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery (116 Anthropology and Art Practice Building). This exhibition includes ephemera and prints from throughout the collection’s history, some of which are rarely seen. Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Edward Gorey, Fernand Léger, Max Beckman, Elisabeth Frink, Corita, Carrie Mae Weems, Le Corbusier, Faith Ringgold, and Ellsworth Kelly are some of the artists that will be represented by prints in this exhibition. There will also be sections in the exhibition dedicated to the winners of the Art Practice and University Library Printmaking Award. The reception for Art for the Asking: The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library will take place from 4-6pm on Wednesday, August 31st at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
The purpose of the GALC since its inception has been to put art in the hands of UC Berkeley students (and the best way to appreciate art is to live with it!), so from September 26-30, UC Berkeley students can come to the Worth Ryder Art Gallery and check-out up to two pieces of art from the GALC’s circulating collection to take home and hang on their walls for the academic year. The prints will only be available to students on a first come, first served basis. Not everything in the collection will be available at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery to check-out these days, but much of the collection will. Please note that the Graphic Arts Loan Collection will not be available to staff and faculty members during this time, but only available to UC Berkeley students.
Starting October 17th, faculty, staff, and students can reserve prints from the collection through the GALC website, where more information about the collection can be found. Any questions about Art for the Asking: The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library or the GALC can be directed to graphicarts-library@berkeley.edu.
Ellsworth Kelly, Red-Orange Over Blue Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled: Trees With Mattress Faith Ringgold, Jo Baker’s Birthday
September’s New Books in Art History
Check out these new books in the subject of Art History. Click the links below for their records in UC Library Search.
Bill Cunningham Was Here Captioning the Archives Carrie Mae Weems
Photography The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography The Lives of Images
Art History/Classics Library Orientation Sessions for Art Practice and History of Art majors
Welcome back students! If you are interested in learning more about the wonderful arts library resources, please join us at one of our upcoming library orientation sessions. Current sessions offered include:
Friday, August 26th 3-4
Monday, August 29th 2-3
Friday, September 9th 11-12
Please rsvp at: http://ucblib.link/orientationAHC
Registration will be capped at 20 students. New dates/times will be added to the rsvp form if the current offerings reach capacity. We will meet in the Art History/Classics Library (room 308, 3rd floor Doe Library).
2021/22 GALC New Acquisitions
GALC Website
Artist: Breidenthal, Elinor
Title: Bat Kiss
Date: 2020
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Falco, Robert
Title: La Noche
Date: 2019
Medium: 2 Color Screenprint
Artist: Gui, Emily
Title: Remnant
Date: 2022
Medium: Serigraph
Artist: Hernandez, Hector Omar
Title: Manual Labor
Date: 2008
Medium: Mezzotint on Copper
Artist: Hernandez, Hector Omar
Title: Untitled (Skull)
Date: 2008
Medium: Aquatint Mezzotint on Zinc
Artist: Hernandez, Hector Omar
Title: Yin Yang 69
Date: 2011
Medium: Copperplate Mezzotint
Artist: Hussong, Randy
Title: Intaglio (Test Print)
Date: 2012
Medium: Intaglio
Description: Part of Test Print series
Artist: Hussong, Randy
Title: Lithography (Test Print)
Date: 2013
Medium: Lithograph
Description: Part of Test Print series
Artist: Hussong, Randy
Title: Relief (Test Print)
Date: 2017
Medium: Relief
Description: Part of Test Print series
Artist: Hussong, Randy
Title: Screen Print (Test Print)
Date: 2011
Medium: Screen Print
Description: Part of Test Print series
Artist: Jo, Helen
Title: RIP 2020
Date: 2021
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Mubarak, Cinque
Title: 2350 B.C.E
Date: 2021
Medium: 12 Color Screen Print
Artist: Neeley, Kathleen
Title: Downstream
Date: 2021
Medium: Linocut
Description: Part of The Understory Linocut Series
Artist: Neeley, Kathleen
Title: Moss Lord
Date: 2020
Medium: Linocut
Description: Part of The Understory Linocut Series
Artist: Obata, Chiura
Title: Unititled (Jumping Horse)
Date: 1960
Medium: Woodcut
Artist: Okona, Chinwe
Title: Lunar Landing
Date: 2022
Medium: 4 Color Screen Print
Artist: Oparah, Nkiruka
Title: Untitled
Date: 2019
Medium: Screenprint, colored pencil
Artist: Paabus, Kristina
Title: Passage
Date: 2021
Medium: Monotype
Artist: Ryan, David
Title: When I Was Your Age This Was All Orchards
Date: 2020
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Santamaria, Sergio Sanchez
Title: Bajo el Nopal
Date: 2021
Medium: Linocut
Description: Part of the Dioses y Petates Series
Artist: Santamaria, Sergio Sanchez
Title: Dios Encerrado
Date: 2021
Medium: Linocut
Description: Part of the Dioses y Petates Series
Medium: Woodcut
Artist: Santamaria, Sergio Sanchez
Title: Mascara de Guerrero
Date: 2021
Medium: Linocut
Description: Part of the Dioses y Petates Series
Artist: Santamaria, Sergio Sanchez
Title: Quetzalcóatl
Date: 2021
Medium: Linocut
Artist: Sato, Rob
Title: The Mask Collector
Date: 2020
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Schuster, Julien
Title: Boisson D’Avril
Date: 2019
Medium: Hand Colored Linocut
Artist: Sun, Deth P.
Title: Dark Images
Date: 2021
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Takar, Kenny
Title: Back Peace
Date: 2021
Medium: Risograph
Artist: Westerman, Donna
Title: Valley Oaks
Date: 2022
Medium: Woodcut
Artist: Wong, Anita Yan
Title: Pandora
Date: 2020
Medium: Sumi-e Ink Painting
GALC Website
2021/22 Art Practice & University Library Printmaking Award Winner: Vera McBride
Vera McBride is a 2022 graduate of the Art Practice Department at the University of California Berkeley, and as the winner of the 2021/22 Art Practice & University Library Printmaking Award, two of Vera’s prints, Sinking and Trick of the Eye, have been added to the Graphic Arts Loan Collection that students at UC Berkeley can now borrow.
Below are some thoughts on the prints and printmaking from Vera:
My work largely reflects a preference for process and materiality. Even if I’m not patient, the process of printmaking forces me to be, and in turn I spend more time considering the making and fine tuning for the next step and the next piece.
Topically, my body of work has been focused on a blending of daydreams, memories, and experiences. These have been the core generative concepts behind the works, and while some end up as whimsical musings, others are more literal and technique driven with a specific moment referenced. The pieces often have repetition and pattern in some capacity, either within the work itself or reworking a concept across many pieces.
The Art Practice & University Library Printmaking Award is given to the undergraduate student in the Department of Art Practice who has demonstrated an astute understanding of printmaking techniques, as well as an advanced ability to express themselves through the medium of printmaking. This award was established in 2018 by the Department of Art Practice and the University Library, and is given to one or two students each academic year.
New Books from the Photography Endowed Funds for the study of History of Art and Art Practice
The following selections are recent acquisitions purchased with the Photography Endowed Fund for the study of History of Art and Art Practice. The endowment was originally established in 2007 by our generous donor Richard Sun. Last year Richard bestowed us with a generous gift once again, by adding another $25,000 to his original endowment, ensuring our photography collection will continue to be enriched well into the future. Below is just a sampling of the many titles acquired with the Photography Endowed Fund over the past year.
Polaroid Now Helen Levitt Ursula: Hannah Whitaker
Behind the Camera Imaging Culture Hiroshi Sugimoto: Accelerated Buddha
Alive and Destroyed A Bridge from Darkness to Light The Year that Changed our World
July’s New Books in Art History
Check out these new books and e-books in the subject of Art History. Click the links below for their records in UC Library Search.
Celestial Tapestry The Responsive Environment Воры, вандалы и идиоты
The Story of Scottish Art Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism Along the Indian Highway
Ethics of Contemporary Art Disordering the Establishment Arte, Literatura, y Feminismos
Passing of Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams
From the History of Art department obituary written by Sugata Ray, Associate Professor in History of Art:
“Professor Emerita Joanna G. Williams, distinguished scholar of South and Southeast Asian art, passed away at her home in Berkeley on June 16, 2022, at the age of eighty-four. She was one of the foremost scholars of South and Southeast Asian art and architecture and, indeed, one of the most well-regarded for her seminal work on fourth- and fifth-century sculpture and architecture as well as later folk traditions.”
See the full obituary on the department website.
In honor of her life and work in the field of South and Southeast Asian art and architecture, we share here some of her publications in the field, and her image collections from her travels shared via the Artstor Public Collections.
ISBN : 0-520-32182-0
Kingdom of the sun: Indian court and village art from the Princely State of Mewar
ISBN : 0939117398
ISBN : 9780939117390
New Art History Books for Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. Check out these new Art History books on the Art History/Classics Library’s New Book Shelf, featuring women artists. Click the titles below to see them in UC Library Search.
Kara Walker Ladies First! Peintres Femmes
Femmy Otten Close-Up Sonya Clark
Black History Month and February’s New Art Books
Check out the work of these Black and African American artists in these new catalogs, presently on view on the Art History/ Classics Library new book shelf. Click the links below the images to see them in UC Library Search.
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw Dirty South Beyond the Black Atlantic
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance Betye Saar Bob Thompson: This House is Mine