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Rolling Hills

Description: The artwork consists of four vertical panels that are hung at different heights. Each panel depicts a series of gradated horizontal lines that are overlaid with ribbon like shapes that seem to depict hills or mountains. The horizontal stripes are browns and pinkish grays while the ribbons are pink.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[room divider]

Description: The vertical hanging room divider consists of strips of color that start and stop creating geometric shapes. The colors are both warm and cool, pinks and blues.
Date: 1979
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[room divider]

Description: The room divider is of various muted ranges of reds, purples with some blues and greens. On the left side is a red wave form reaching into the distance or top edge of the room divider.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[room divider]

Description: The room divider consists of long strips of fabric dyed and decorated with ribbons that resemble waves of water. The colors of the strips range from orange to blue-green and browns.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[room divider]

Description: The vertical oriented room divider depicts a landscape type of scene with moon and sun type shapes floating through and among wave like shapes. The colors are in a range from warm orange and pale yellow to blue greens.
Date: 1979~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Santa Fe

Description: In this black and white painting are depicted three men. The two main figures wear cowboy hats and the figure on the right side of the painting also sports a sheriff's badge in the shape of a star. The brushstrokes are loose and expressive. The men appear to be having a dialogue.
Date: 1982
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

Senate Testimony

Description: The left hand section of the painting depicts three men seated at a table with microphones while the right side consists of text, dialogue between two people, Steve and a woman.
Date: 2011
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

Silk Panel I

Description: The vertically running piece consists of a predominately dark ground with some vertical stripes in lighter colors and shades. Moving inward from the lower two corners are some mountainous shapes that overlap on the lower edge and meet again in the upper portion of the piece in front of the vertical striping.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Silk Panel III

Description: The fabric yardage consists of a dark ground with some horizontal pink stripes and running vertically the length of the yardage are some ribbon shapes in purple, pink, brown and blue.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Silk Panel IV

Description: The yardage consists of light and dark horizontal cloud like forms intersecting with each other and occasionally overlapped with floating rectangular shapes.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[silk screened cotton velveteen artwork]

Description: This screen printed cotton velveteen artwork depicts in a horizontal orientation two curved brown boardwalk type images. These boardwalks reach through the sky and enter into two rectangular frame shapes. Mountainous shapes line the bottom edge of the work.
Date: 1988~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[silk screened cotton velveteen artwork]

Description: The horizontally oriented work consists of shapes that resemble floating sidewalks in the sky. Running from the upper left corner to the lower right is a long ribbon shape that floats into almost a calligraphic word. The ground depicting distance gradates from a darker blue to a pink at the horizon. In the far distance appears some shapes resembling mountains. The left and upper edge of the work is bordered by gradated stripes.
Date: 1984~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[silk yardage, batiked]

Description: The length of the silk yardage contains geometric shapes set at an angle and amongst the geometric shapes are smaller wave type shapes. The colors are dark blue to light blues and some warm yellow-browns.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Space Behind the Dark Wall

Description: The dark ground of the piece also contains square shapes that create great depth and floating on the surface appear trapezoidal pink shapes. The blue ground contains square that gradate from very dark to somewhat lighter and pink in tone. The pink shapes on the surface, floating parallel to the ground, gradate from a lighter pink to darker pink.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Space Beyond the Definition

Description: The horizontally oriented piece consists of gray gradations on the left and upper sides in rectangular shapes. On the right side are circular gradations in pinks. Flowing from the right lower corner toward the upper left are ribbon shapes that create the illusion of deep space.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Space for Eternity

Description: The horizontally oriented picture depicts water and a brown boardwalk of sorts receding into the deep space. Some small cloud like forms float in the top portion of the work and one-half of a rectangular shape floats in the top right hand portion of the picture. Some white tops of waves move out from the boardwalk area toward the right hand edge of the piece.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

St. Matthew

Description: This acrylic painting on paper consists of small geometric shapes spread across the surface of ninety-degree turned and columnar patterns. St. Matthew is depicted at the lower right edge in an outline. An upside down silhouette shape of a dog is included in the upper left portion of the painting.
Date: unknown
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Storm, NYC Rooftop

Description: Long multi-colored pieces are arranged on a rooftop in an urban setting. The pieces are arranged both in organic lines as well as straight lines filling the rooftop area. Some pieces partially move above the base and some appear suspended in space.
Date: 1981
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Stream

Description: The horizontally oriented artwork depicts ribbon like shapes floating from foreground to background with blue gradated wave like forms and a geometric thick wall-like form in the center right of the composition. Emerging from the left side of the piece is a rectangular frame in pale gray.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Study

Description: Vertical dark gray painting with shade gradations from white to black on surface. Some numbers and some text in upper right portion along with red, blue, and yellow green spots.
Date: 1996
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Study of Forms and Color

Description: The strong colors and vertical orientation with definite geometric shapes and stripes contribute to the graphic design. Blue and white stripes on the right hand side with a gradated purple sphere on the left and orange sphere at the top right are linked with some angled green lines.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
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