JOSEPH
SHEPPARD HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE UMUC COLLECTION
ARTS PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
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SHEPPARD HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE UMUC COLLECTION
Arts Program University of Maryland University College Funding for this project was provided in part by Dorothy L. and Henry A. Rosenberg Jr. and Patricia K. and Michael J. Batza Jr.
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Joseph Sheppard: Highlights from the UMUC Collection October 29, 2017–October 28, 2018 Š 2017 University of Maryland University College. All rights reserved. Copyright credits and attribution for certain illustrations are cited internally proximate to the illustrations. ISBN: 13:978-0-9842265-0-4 ISBN: 10:0-98442265-0-8
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The UMUC Arts Program is a natural extension of a university committed to teaching and learning. Art affirms our desire to discover and create and reminds us of the creativity that dwells within each of us, firing our imaginations, driving innovation, and enriching our world. Javier Miyares President University of Maryland University College
Art can soothe the soul, challenge the mind, and document the history of a people. The art of Baltimore artist Joseph Sheppard achieves all three. Eric Key Director, Arts Program University of Maryland University College
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CURATOR’S STATEMENT
A Maryland native, Joseph Sheppard is an internationally
subject matter Sheppard portrays
known master artist whose work extends across multiple
in his landscapes, portraits, reli-
mediums. He is a painter, draftsman, and sculptor who has
gious works, and street scenes
produced artwork for nearly seven decades. His prolific
also reflects his curiosity about a
body of work tackles a variety of topics and challenges the
multitude of topics and the world.
viewer with complex layers of visual storytelling. Ever since the Leroy Merritt CenFrom 1948 to 1952, Sheppard attended what is now known
ter for the Art of Joseph Sheppard
as the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He
opened as part of the College Park
studied under French painter Jacques Maroger, an accom-
Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at University of
plished realist and former technical director of the labora-
Maryland University College (UMUC), it has continuously
tories of the Louvre Museum, who encouraged his students
housed and displayed hundreds of pieces of Sheppard’s
to study anatomy and the works of old masters. This fueled
work, donated by the artist himself and collectors of his
Sheppard’s lifelong interest in the classical realist tradition.
work. His art speaks to people across many backgrounds
The artist’s works—especially those focusing on the human
and experiences and consistently remains valuable and in
figure—masterfully capture details of human emotions.
high demand in both the realm of realist painting and the
Sheppard’s fascination with portraiture is kindled by the
larger art world.
humanity of the subject, and he is constantly searching for different expressions of the human experience.
Although this exhibition features only a small sampling
The works selected for this exhibition reflect diverse medi-
Center feature more of his art, and I invite you to explore
ums and formats: drawings, paintings, landscapes, and fig-
it all. On behalf of the UMUC Arts Program, I hope you
ures. As varied as these art forms are, the common threads
enjoy this exhibition, which provides just a glimpse into
among the artist’s works are an attention to detail and a
an extraordinary and continuing career.
passion for representing the human form in motion and the inner and outer world realistically. The wide-ranging
of Sheppard’s works, the other areas of the Leroy Merritt
Jon West-Bey Curator, UMUC Arts Program
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ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Sheppard Born: 1930 Owings Mills, Maryland
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
TRAINING
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Maryland Institute College of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland, 1948–1952 Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship to Florence, Italy, 1957
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Consiglio Regionale della Toscana, Florence, Italy
SELECTED AWARDS
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Tuscan American Association Award
Malcolm Forbes Collection, New York, New York
Florence, Italy, 2016 Sports Artist of the Year United States Sports Academy, 2016 18th Annual International Award
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy
Pietrasanta and Versilia, 2008
National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, Indiana
Gold Medal, C. Percival Dietsch Prize
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
National Sculpture Society, 1994
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Silver Medal of Honor
Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, Alabama
Allied Artists of America, 1986 Agop Agapoff Memorial Prize National Sculpture Society, 1986 William Meyerowitz Memorial Award Allied Artists of America, 1985
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Paul Puzinas Memorial Award Allied Artists of America, 1983 Tallix Foundry Prize National Sculpture Society, 1983 Governor’s Prize Maryland Artists Exhibition, 1971 John McDonough Prize Butler Institute of American Art, 1967 First Purchase Award Butler Institute of American Art, 1963 Bronze Medal of Honor Allied Artists of America, 1963 John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship, 1958 Emily Lowe Prize Allied Artists of America, 1956
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COLLECTION DONORS
Carolyn and Steven Aoyama John and Doris Babcock Jane Balderson Dorothea Barrick William Crouch Keith S. and Denise F. Franz Gerald Heeger Bernard Kleiman Pamela Lapides James M. Lardner Jack Luskin Stuart Millison Arnold Peterson Constance Pitcher Sharon and Herb Rochlin Helmut Schinzel Jonathan Sheppard Joseph Sheppard Diane St. Clair Morton Tadder Richard Tomasetti
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FEATURED ARTWORK
Reading in the Park 2012 oil on canvas 11½ x 15½ inches
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Tree in a Landscape 1950 oil on board 11½ x 15 inches
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Untitled (People and Horse Cart with Fruit) 1958 oil on Masonite 12 x 16 inches
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Figure Backstage 1952 oil on Masonite 15½ x 13½ inches
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Girl with Pearls 1954 oil on canvas 19½ x 15½ inches
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Grand Canyon 1993 oil on Masonite 20 x 30 inches
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Untitled (Park Scene) not dated oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Back View of Rib Cage 1973–74 pencil on paper 17½ x 9½ inches
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Side View of Vertebrae 1973–74 pencil on paper 17 x 9 inches
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Five Views of Skeletal Hand 1973–74 pencil on paper 11 x 15 inches
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Four Views of Shoulder Joint 1973–74 pencil on paper 13 x 13½ inches
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SEVEN DEADLY SINS SERIES The Seven Deadly Sins series, as depicted by Joseph Sheppard, is a visual explanation of the Christian concept of sins that would lead to eternal damnation: envy,
greed, sloth, gluttony, anger, pride, and lust. Although associated with Christian theology, the seven deadly sins are not enumerated as such in the Bible. They are based on the third-century writings of Evagrius Ponticus, who described the eight greatest temptations that Christians faced in their worship of God. In the sixth century, Pope Gregory I revised Ponticus’s list to the common list of seven.
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Envy Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Greed Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Sloth Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Gluttony Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Anger Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Pride Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Lust Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
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Parade 2000 oil on canvas 60 x 84 inches
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Girl and Brick Wall 1954 oil on board 16 x 12 inches
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Circus not dated oil on board 16 x 20 inches
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Untitled (Tree) not dated oil on board 16 x 20 inches
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Play Our Game 1976 oil on Masonite 44 x 36 inches
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Girl with Potbelly Stove 1955 oil on Masonite 12 x 12 inches
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Girl Thinking not dated pencil on paper 19 x 14ž inches
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Red-Headed Girl with Arms Crossed not dated pencil on paper 18 x 12 inches
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Watermelon and Fruit 1988 oil on board 28 x 40 inches
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Grand Canyon Trail not dated oil on board 20 x 27 inches
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Untitled (Woman Reading) 1954 oil on board 8 x 8 inches
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Untitled (Lying on a Bench) 1957 oil on board 9½ x 15½ inches
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EXHIBITION LIST
Anger
Girl with Potbelly Stove
Red-Headed Girl with Arms Crossed
Seven Deadly Sins series
1955
not dated
1960s
oil on Masonite
pencil on paper
oil on Masonite
12 x 12 inches
18 x 12 inches
24 x 36 inches
Doris Patz Collection of Maryland Artists
Side View of Vertebrae 1973–74
Back View of Rib Cage 1973–74
Gluttony
pencil on paper
pencil on paper
Seven Deadly Sins series
17 x 9 inches
17½ x 9½ inches
1960s
Circus
oil on Masonite
Sloth
24 x 36 inches
Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s
not dated oil on board
Grand Canyon
oil on Masonite
16 x 20 inches
1993
24 x 36 inches
oil on Masonite Envy
20 x 30 inches
Tree in a Landscape 1950
Seven Deadly Sins series 1960s
Grand Canyon Trail
oil on board
oil on Masonite
not dated
11½ x 15 inches
24 x 36 inches
oil on board 20 x 27 inches
Untitled (Lying on a Bench) 1957
Figure Backstage 1952
Greed
oil on board
oil on Masonite
Seven Deadly Sins series
9½ x 15½ inches
15½ x 13½ inches
1960s
Doris Patz Collection of
oil on Masonite
Untitled (Park Scene)
Maryland Artists
24 x 36 inches
not dated
Five Views of Skeletal Hand
Lust
1973–74
Seven Deadly Sins series
pencil on paper
1960s
Untitled (People and Horse
11 x 15 inches
oil on Masonite
Cart with Fruit)
24 x 36 inches
1958
oil on Masonite 24 x 36 inches
oil on Masonite
Four Views of Shoulder Joint
12 x 16 inches
1973–74
Parade
pencil on paper
2000
13 x 13½ inches
oil on canvas
Untitled (Tree)
60 x 84 inches
not dated oil on board
Girl and Brick Wall
16 x 20 inches
1954
Play Our Game
oil on board
1976
16 x 12 inches
oil on Masonite
Untitled (Woman Reading)
44 x 36 inches
1954
On loan from Pamela Lapides
oil on board
Girl Thinking
8 x 8 inches
not dated pencil on paper
Pride
19 x 14¾ inches
Seven Deadly Sins series
Watermelon and Fruit
1960s
1988
Girl with Pearls
oil on Masonite
oil on board
1954
24 x 36 inches
28 x 40 inches
Reading in the Park
*Artworks are part of the
2012
UMUC Permanent Collection,
oil on canvas
Maryland Artist Collection,
11½ x 15½ inches
unless otherwise noted.
oil on canvas 19½ x 15½ inches
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UMUC BOARDS
ART ADVISORY BOARD Javier Miyares President University of Maryland University College Anne V. Maher, Esq., Chair Attorney at Law Kleinfeld, Kaplan & Becker, LLP Eva J. Allen, PhD, Honorary Member Art Historian Myrtis Bedolla, Vice Chair Owner and Founding Director Galerie Myrtis Joan Bevelaqua Artist, Collegiate Professor University of Maryland University College Schroeder Cherry, EdD Artist, Adjunct Professor of Museum Studies Morgan State University I-Ling Chow, Honorary Member Regional President and Managing Director, Ret. Asia Bank, N.A. Nina C. Dwyer Artist, Adjunct Professor of Art Montgomery College
Eric Key
Joseph V. Bowen Jr.
Director, Arts Program
Senior Vice President, Operations,
University of Maryland University College
and Managing Principal, Ret. McKissack & McKissack
Thomas Li, Honorary Member Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ret.
David W. Bower
Biotech Research Labs, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer Data Computer Corporation of America
David Maril, Honorary Member Journalist
Karl R. Gumtow
President, Herman Maril Foundation
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer CyberPoint International, LLC
Terrie S. Rouse President, Rouse Consulting
Attorney at Law Christopher Shields
Juanita Boyd Hardy, Honorary Member Executive Director, CulturalDC Sharon Smith Holston, Honorary Member Artist’s Representative and Co-Owner Holston Originals Pamela G. Holt Consultant Public Affairs and Cultural Policy Administration
Kleinfeld, Kaplan & Becker, LLP
Director, Business Operations NASDAQ.com
Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige Jr., U.S. Army, Ret.
Barbara Stephanic, PhD,
Department of Defense/Intelligence Services
Honorary Member
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
Vice President of Operations, Ret.
Professor Emerita of Art History College of Southern Maryland
Sharon R. Pinder President and Chief Executive Officer
Dianne A. Whitfield-Locke, DDS
Capital Region Minority Supplier
Collector and Patron of the Arts and
Development Council
Owner, Dianne Whitfield-Locke Dentistry Brig. Gen. Velma L. Richardson, Sharon Wolpoff
U.S. Army, Ret.
Artist and Owner
President, VLR Consulting
Wolpoff Studios William T. (Bill) Wood, JD Elizabeth Zoltan, PhD
Founder, Wood Law Offices, LLC
Collector and Patron of the Arts Joyce M. Wright
Karin Goldstein, Honorary Member Collector and Patron of the Arts
Anne V. Maher, Esq.
BOARD OF VISITORS
Senior Consultant Fitzgerald Consulting
Mark J. Gerencser, Chair Chairman of the Board CyberSpa, LLC Evelyn J. Bata, PhD Professor Emerita University of Maryland University College Richard F. Blewitt, Member Emeritus Managing Partner, R&B Associates, and President, The Blewitt Foundation
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ABOUT UMUC
ARTS PROGRAM MISSION STATEMENT
SERVING BUSY PROFESSIONALS WORLDWIDE
The Arts Program at UMUC creates an environment in
University of Maryland University College (UMUC)
which its diverse constituents, including members of the
specializes in high-quality academic programs that are
university community and the general public, can study
convenient for busy professionals. Our undergraduate
and learn about art by directly experiencing it.
and graduate programs are specifically tailored to fit into the demanding lives of those who wish to pursue a respected degree that can advance them personally
The Arts Program seeks to promote the university’s core values and to provide educational opportunities for life-
and grow their careers.
long learning. From the research and study of works of art
UMUC has earned a worldwide reputation for excel-
Arts Program will play an increasing role in academic life at
lence as a comprehensive virtual university and, through
the university. With a regional and national focus, the Arts
a combination of classroom and distance-learning
Program is dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, study,
formats, provides educational opportunities to more
exhibition, and interpretation of works of art of the highest
than 80,000 students.
quality in a variety of media that represent its constituents
to the teaching applications of each of our exhibitions, the
and to continuing its historic dedication to Maryland and The university is proud to offer a distinguished faculty
Asian art.
of scholar-practitioners and world-class student services to educate students online, throughout Maryland, across the United States, and in more than 20 countries and territories around the world. For more information regarding UMUC and its programs, visit umuc.edu.
ABOUT THE ARTS PROGRAM AT UMUC
CONTRIBUTORS Director, Arts Program: Eric Key Curators: Eric Key, Jon West-Bey Editors: Sandy Bernstein, Beth Butler, Barbara Reed Director, Institutional Projects: Cynthia Friedman Designer: Jennifer Norris
Since 1978, UMUC has proudly shown works from a
Project Manager: Laurie Bushkoff
large collection of international and Maryland artists
Production Manager: Scott Eury
at its headquarters in Adelphi, Maryland, a few miles
Fine Arts Technician: René A. Sanjines
from the nation’s capital. Through its Arts Program, the
Administrative Assistant: Tawanna Manago
university provides a prestigious and wide-ranging forum
Artwork photographer: John Woo
for emerging and established artists and brings art to the community through special exhibitions and its own collections, which have grown to include more than 2,800 pieces of art. ON THE COVER:
Artworks are on display throughout the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at UMUC and the Administration Building in Adelphi as well as at the UMUC Academic Center at Largo. The main, lower-level
Watermelon and Fruit 1988, oil on board, 28 x 40 inches UMUC Permanent Collection Maryland Artist Collection
gallery in Adelphi is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, and the Leroy Merritt Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week. More than 75,000 students, scholars, and visitors come to the Adelphi facilities each year. Exhibitions at the UMUC Academic Center at Largo are open to visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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JOSEPH
SHEPPARD HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE UMUC COLLECTION
ARTS PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
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