Author: Scott Peterson
Gottfried Honeggar’s Forest Fruit & Herlinde Spahr’s Aeneid 7/12
By Yuen Ho
These gorgeous prints allowed us to bring high quality art into our home. Whether decorating our bedroom or study nook, seeing these prints everyday gave us a jumping point for conversation, reflection, and aesthetic appreciation. Thank you for the opportunity to cultivate a love of art within our humble home.
Sigmund Ables’ Weekend Visitors & John W. Winkler’s Dusk at Fisherman’s Wharf
By Evan Larson
The GALC program added so much to my years at Cal. Each year, my rommates and I enjoyed picking out the pieces of art that we would display in our rooms. Throughout the year, I get to enjoy looking up at a beautiful print. Whenever anyone comes over to visit, the usually make a remark about my GALC print – it’s the centerpiece of the room. I especially liked telling other Cal students about the program and seeing GALC pieces appear on their walls next year.
Wilder Bentley’s Entertainer of Our Armed Hosts & Mario Avati’s La Carpe
By Julia Sizek
Our dining room has been a wide open canvas in this giant house where I’ve been lucky to live for a year and a half. The room is one of the darkest in the house, a deep red color that the fast food industry would tell you makes you hungry. We would have never picked such a color, but it preceded us: the dining room, like the rest of the house, is owned by our landlords who are reoccupying the house this summer. When we gave our thirty days’ notice in advance of the impending move, I began taking down the prints in our dining room that we had to return to the library. I had borrowed two, as had one of my housemates. Each of them were beautiful, but the one that I spent the most time examining–mostly when I was pretending to write my dissertation, as I am also doing at this very moment–was “La Carpe” (“The Carp”) by Mario Avati. The print depicts a carp, its skeletal structure visible inside its fishy outline. One of the things that always vaguely upset me about the print is that the fish has no real eye, just a blank socket as one would expect in a skeleton. The blank eye circle is mirrored in the background, a horizontally pinstriped sheet with circular blots that look like carefully drawn circles from far away and water stains from close up. It’s fitting that the skeletal carp is surrounded by water circles, and it reminds me of one of the rules that they told us at the moment when they gave us the picture: don’t put it in the bathroom, they said. We agreed, and instead hung a cheap print of “St. Anthony Tempted by the Devil in the Form of a Woman” (Sausetta), a joke of sorts that we intended to leave to unsettle our bathroom users, a way to lighten the darkness of the house and the fact that it would never be ours.
Shiro Ikegawa’s Maru-to-Shima & Kogyo Tsukioka’s Naniwa: The Scholar Onin and the Spirit of Plum Trees
By Jonathan Anderson Curley
I love getting to hang out with prints from the GALC. This was my second year knowing about, and using the program. This year I had two prints by Japanese artists: a woodblock print of actors from the 1800’s and an abstract print from the 1970’s. I hung both in my bedroom at home. I like the experience of having artwork temporarily… I think I pay a little more attention to it, knowing we will soon part!
Mark Daniells’ Anuenue Namolokama & Sharon Augusta Mitchell’s Rainforest Tapestry
By Anonymous
The two pieces I rented were beautiful, soothing, and they lit up the room where I hug them both.
Oxyacantha & Leucoium Bulbosum Minus
By Anonymous
Together with my housemate’s paintings, it was wonderful having three art pieces of some flowers and plants. They added color and richness to our otherwise blank white wall.
John August Swanson’s Star Clown & Corita’s n is for caution
By Anonymous
I loved the living with GALC program. I told both of my roommates about it, and we created a beautiful gallery wall in our tiny terrible apartment. My only complaint is that I didn’t know about it until senior year, and I wish I could have taken more advantage of it.
New Books Added to Graduate Services in March
The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood art & adapatation by Renee Nault
Conversations With Allen Ginsberg edited by David Stephen Calonne
Pursuit: A Novel Of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
Conversations With Neil Simon edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Ben Siegel
Poems Written Abroad: The Lilly Library Manuscript by Stephen Spender edited by Christop Irmscher
Jean Stafford: Complete Novels: Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion, The Catherine Wheel edited by Kathryn Davis
Selected Poems Of Edith Wharton edited by Irene Goldman-Price
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power In The Era Of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek
New Books Added to Graduate Services in February
German Philosphy: A Dialogue: Alain Badiou & Jean-Luc Nancy edited with an afterword by Jan Volker
The End: A Conversation: Alain Badiou & Giovanbattista Tusa
Writing Your Journal Article In Twelve Weeks: A Guide To Academic Publishing Success (Second Edition) by Wendy Laura Belcher
Harvest Bells: New And Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman edited by Kevin J. Gardner
Cutting Up The Century by William S. Burroughs edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan
A Letter Marked Personal by J.P. Donleavy
The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition by F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by James L. W. West III
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
Tribunal by Lyn Hejinian
For Whom The Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway and a new introduction by Sean Hemingway
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler translated by Philip Boehm with an introduction by Michael Scammell
Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence with an introduction by Nicolas Rothwell
Medieval Cistercian History: Initiation Into The Monastic Tradition 9 by Thomas Merton edited by Partick F. O’Connell with a preface by William R. Grimes
My Life As A Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
Collected Fables by James Thurber edited by Michael J. Rosen with a foreword by Keith Olbermann
Sex And The Failed Sex by Slavoj Zizek
2019/20 GALC New Acquisitions
GALC Website
Artist: Appel, Karel
Title: Martha Jackson Gallery Poster
Date: 1969
Medium: Serigraph
Dimensions: 23″ x 18.5″
Artist: Clemente, Francesco
Title: Untitled, Abstract Figure
Date: 1986
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 28.5 x 37″
Artist: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de
Title: El sí pronuncian y la mano alargan al primero que llega (They say yes and give their hand to the first comer)
Medium: Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions: 15 x 19″
Description: No. 2 from the series “Los Caprichos.”
Artist: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de
Title: ¿Si sabra más el discípulo? (Might not the pupil know more?
Medium: Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions: 15 x 19″
Description: No. 37 from the series “Los Caprichos.”
Artist: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de
Title: Se repulen (They spruce themselves up)
Medium: Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions: 15 x 19″
Description: No. 51 from the series “Los Caprichos.”
Artist: Grabow, Alexandra
Title: EXPRMNTS
Date: 2019
Medium: Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions: 12 x 30″
Description: Signed by the artist. 3 of a series.
Artist: Grabow, Alexandra
Title: EXPNDS
Date: 2019
Medium: Aquatint, Etching
Dimensions: 25 x 33
Description: Signed by the artist.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Portrait of Aristophanes
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Dionysus in the Robe of Hercules
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Dionysus and Xanthias Meet the Empusa
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Dionysus and Xanthias Bombarded by Aiakos
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: The Choir Speaks to the Audience
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Dionysus, Aeschylus and Euripides Perform Sacrifices
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: The Debate
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Pluto Challenges Dionysus
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: The Verdict
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Kokoschka, Oskar
Title: Exodus
Date: 1969
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: 19 x 25″
Series: “7/70”
Description: Plate from the series “Die Frösche des Aristophanes” (“The Frogs of Aristophanes”). Signed and numbered.
Artist: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
Title: Negative Cat
Date: 1973
Medium: Photograph
Dimensions: 13 x 15.5″
Description: Photo-reproduction of a gelatin silver print from 1926.
Artist: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
Title: Dusk at the Playing Fields of Eton
Date: 1973
Medium: Photograph
Dimensions: 13.5 x 15.5″
Description: Photo-reproduction of a gelatin silver print from 1936.
Artist: Robbins, Frederick
Title: Home for Christmas
Date: No Date
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 12″ x 15.5″
Description: Signed and titled.
Artist: Rouault, Georges
Title: Untitled, Christ and Pontius Pilate
Date: 1935
Medium: Wood Engraving
Dimensions: 16 x 20″
Description: An illustration to André Suarès “Passion,” published in 1939. Lettered with Rouault’s initials on block.
Artist: Unknown
Title: 100 jaar Cabaret (100 Years of Cabaret)
Date: 1995
Medium: Serigraph
Dimensions: 18 x 25.5”
Description: Exhibition poster from the Theater Instituut Nederland.
Artist: Unknown
Title: Printing Is a Way of Life
Date: 2000
Medium: Silkscreen
Dimensions: 21 x 29″
Description: Original poster on the occasion of “Living with Letters,” a Josua Reichert exhibition, at the Joods Historisch Museum.
Artist: Unknown
Title: Untitled, Literatuurnummer 1995
Date: 1995
Medium: Silkscreen
Dimensions: 16.25 x 24”
Description: Poster for the magazine Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad (New Israelite Weekly).
Artist: Unknown
Title: Untitled, Literatuurnummer 1993
Date: 1993
Medium: Silkscreen
Dimensions: 16.25 x 24”
Description: Poster for the magazine Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad (New Israelite Weekly).
Artist: Viggiano, Bill
Title: Untitled, Landscape with Truck
Medium: Photograph
Dimensions: 16.5 x 13.5″
Description: Signed by the artist.
Artist: Viggiano, Bill
Title: Untitled, Landscape with Children
Medium: Photograph
Dimensions: 16.5 x 13.5″
Description: Signed by the artist.