Earl Iversen
Checklist
February 14 – May 20, 2012
Garden of Eden
Mary’s Lake
Abel with His Wife and Shepherd Dog, 2010, 2012
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, 2011 #1, 2011
Black Man Pointing Toward Goddess of Liberty Tree, 2010, 2012
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #4, 2011
Cain with His Wife and ‘Possum, 2010, 2012
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #9, 2011
2012 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist Curator: Bill North Graphic Design: Abbie Polys Printing: University Printing Photography courtesy of Earl Iversen. This exhibition is funded by the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Business Partners: Ag Press Art Craft Printers & Design Bayer Construction Co., Inc. BG Consultants, Inc. Bruce McMillan Architects P.A. Capitol Federal Cereal Food Processors Commerce Bank Community First National Bank Diamond Roofing Grand Mere Development GTM Sportswear Hawley Printing Service/Sir Speedy Kansas Farm Bureau Landmark National Bank Limbocker Enterprises Meadowlark Hills Morrison, Frost, Olsen, Irvine, Jackson & Schartz, LLP New Boston Creative Group, LLC Realty Executives – Weis Real Estate Sink, Gillmore & Gordon, LLP Stoecklein Financial Services Strecker-Nelson Gallery Student Publications Inc. The Trust Company of Manhattan UMB Bank Varney & Associates, CPAs, LLC Varney’s Bookstore Westar Energy William T. Kemper Foundation ©2012 by Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan. All rights reserved.
Note: All works are gelatin silver prints by Earl Iversen (United States, born 1943). Dimensions refer to image size and are given in inches, height preceding width. All works appear courtesy of the artist.
17¼ x 12⅝ in.
17¼ x 12⅝ in.
12⅝ x 17¼ in. (2012 FOBMA gift print)
Devil, 2010, 2012 12⅝ x 17¼ in.
Eve with Adam and Serpent, 2010, 2011 13⅜ x 17¼ in.
The Girl After the Soldier, 2010, 2012 12⅝ x 17¼ in. The Girl Catching the Bird, 2010, 2012 17¼ x 12⅝ in.
Man in Hat Pointing Toward Goddess of Liberty Tree, 2010, 2012 12⅝ x 17¼ in. Shadows on the Cabin Home, 2010, 2012 17¼ x 13¼ in. Storks, 2010, 2012
17¼ x 12⅝ in.
13¼ x 17¼ in.
12⅞ x 17¾ in.
12⅞ x 17¾ in.
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #14, 2011 12⅞ x 17¾ in.
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #15, 2011 12⅞ x 17¾ in.
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #18, 2011 12⅞ x 17¾ in.
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #22, 2012 12⅝ x 17¼ in.
The Woods at Mary’s Lake, Lawrence, KS. 2008-11 #24, 2011 12⅞ x 17¾ in.
Earl Iversen 1943, Born, Chicago, IL 2008-present, professor emeritus, University of Kansas,
Department of Design, School of Architecture
1980-2008, associate professor, University of Kansas,
School of Fine Arts
1974-1980, assistant professor, University of Kansas,
Selected Public Collections High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Library of Congress, Washington, DC Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
School of Fine Arts
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1973, MFA, photography,
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
1970, BA, communication design,
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Rhode Island School of Design
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
Earl Iversen has been making photographs of Kansas for nearly four decades. In recent years he has been creating images with large, wood-bodied view cameras, a type of camera in use since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century. Lacking the portability and ease of operation of a digital camera, the view camera affords Iversen the opportunity to slow down and make more deliberate photographs in, as he says, “the most simple and elemental way possible.” This exhibition contains photographs taken with a view camera at two locations: S. P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden, a grassroots art site in Lucas, Kansas, and the woods at Mary’s Lake, a small public fishing lake in Lawrence. The concrete sculpture entwining the grounds of Dinsmoor’s limestone Cabin Home and the woods surrounding Mary’s Lake hold similar appeal for the photographer. He notes: “They are spacious environments to roam around and observe: full of fascinating curvilinear sculptural forms reaching up and having cathedral-like qualities flavored by an atmosphere of mystery, contortion, and dread.”
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Selected Bibliography Brackman, Barbara, and Cathy Dwigans. Backyard Visionaries: Grassroots Art in the Midwest. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Bromberg, Nicolette. Wisconsin Revisited: A Rephotographic Essay. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1998. Bromberg, Nicolette, Thomas R. Vale, and Steven D. Hoelscher. Wisconsin Then and Now: The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Greving, Louis H. A Pictorial Story of the Grotto of the Redemption. West Bend, IA: L. Greving, 1993. Southall, Thomas W. Terry Evans, Earl Iversen: Kansas Photographs. Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983.