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| Work
New School of Athens, The
| Date: | 1979
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| Medium: | Ink, watercolor, and oil glaze on Bainbridge board |
| Size inches: | 22 x 30 |
| Size cm: | 55.9 x 76.2
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| Signature: | Signed, titled, and dated lower right |
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| Location: | Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida |
| Image Notes
Signed, titled, and dated lower right and inscribed on the reverse
Reference
Raphael, The School of Athens.
Japanese inscription lower left reads "New School of Athens." Translation of title to Japanese and calligraphy by Yukie Ochiishi, also known as Augustmoon Ochiishi.
| Artist's Notes
On Saturday July 1, (1978) I worked in my studio and began a drawing on illustration board of Raphael’s “School of Athens.” I got a crow quill pen and some sepia ink and began inking in as soon as it had been plotted out in pencil. I happen to have a very fine reproduction of a Botticelli drawing and thought my drawing would look best if it were similar. Although Botticelli’s drawing seems to be in conte crayon, both drawings are brown. (Unpublished notebook entry)
Should I call the drawing with the Japanese men "The New School?" (Unpublished notebook entry, Wednesday, July 12, 1978)
Raphael's "School of Athens" figures & architecture: sepia wash, with blue sky through domes. semicircular border: blue & yellow key design. left foreground 2 Japanese wrestlers (sic) seen from back. Left firgure, yellow with red jockstrap. Right figure, yellow with green jockstrap. Japanese inscription lower left reads "New School of Athens." calligraphy by ochiishi (Yukie Ochiishi). (George Deem, letter December 10, 1980 to Philip Dedrick, Department of Art, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois)
| Exhibitions
Sneed Gallery, Rockford, Illinois
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