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A white vase, holding what appears to be baby’s breath and several varieties of marigolds, sits upon a table. Its blaze of yellow, orange, and red overwhelms muted pinks and mauves of the table covering and wallpaper. Rollo accentuates this emphasis…

The vividness of this still life is the result of its muted brown background, combined with Rollo’s free use of white paint to highlight the tips of flowers in a vase. Shadows from light at the left side of his painting are minimized, creating an…

This painting depicts a naval battle of consequence, during the War of 1812, between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere some 400 miles southeast of Nova Scotia. The latter ship was only part of a Royal Navy with large numerical advantage,…

Based upon an Aztec story, the Mexican coat of arms depicts a golden eagle perched upon a prickly pear cactus devouring a snake. The founding of Tenochtitlan, the island at Mexico City's center, had been prophesied to the Aztecs by traveling until…

Two pages from a series of several different concepts for retrospective show on migrant farmworkers. Created by a professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, the exhibit showed the experiences of four different cultural groups--Mexican, Algonquin…

This program was created for a 1991 exhibition whose premise was quite formalist: that there are four types of passages "common to all migrant people": through historical time, through space, through seasons of nature, and through cycles of life.…

This program was created to accompany a 1991 gallery show featuring seven artists from the community of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake at Rapid Lake, Quebec. Since the late 1940s they had traveled seasonally to Western New York, where their skills…

Although it owes something to Cézanne’s post-impressionist fields of color, Rites’ painting often de-emphasizes formal shapes that would hold together such a composition. It takes a second look to discern a house, outbuilding, and dock upon a pond or…