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The Big Heat

Description: The black and white painting depicts a version of a famous scene in the movie The Big Heat from 1953 directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford. The brushstrokes are loose. One man holds a gun on a second wounded man. The man in the right foreground reaches out to the man in the center who leans against the wall.
Date: 1984
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

BJ 02-9

Description: This predominately orange/red painting contains lined texture at various horizontal angles and contains curved vertical yellow parallel lines.
Date: 2002
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Blue Tide

Description: This queen sized bedspread, screen printed on cotton velvet, was created while Spear studied at Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The bedspread gradates from purples to blues with long wave shapes in a pale yellow gold color.
Date: 1978
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

BM 03-1

Description: This predominately black painting also contains curved and wavy parallel vertical orange lines and lined texture perpendicular to orange lines.
Date: 2003
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Bridges Into Space

Description: The vertical wall hanging is dyed in strips that hang vertically. Moving horizontally through the piece are large curved shapes and one has a stair step type edge. The vertical strips create the horizontal design.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Bush and McCain

Description: This work of art consists of three components, a black and white depiction of George W. Bush and John McCain with some text below. To the right of this panel is a red canvas containing more text. And, to the left of the main panel, resting against the wall on its side is a long, rectangular cartoon type piece.
Date: 2008
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

C 97-3

Description: Red, blue, and brown brushstrokes covered by a black mesh consisting of forty-nine openings arranged seven by seven through which the reds, blues and browns appear.
Date: 1997
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Cain and Abel

Description: This large colorful painting depicts the brothers, Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The story of these brothers is also found in the Quran. The painting consists of many bright colors in flat fields with black lines and outlines. The shepherd brother is in the background herding sheep and in the foreground is the second brother holding a large club and peering over his left shoulder.
Date: 1989
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

Canyon

Description: The almost square cotton velvet artwork consists of ribbon like shapes on edge receding into the distance creating a canyon like imagery. The colors are gradated in browns, purples and blues.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Canyon No. 2

Description: The work depicts space in a canyon like fashion. Irregular shapes run through the work and from the edges are dropped perpendicularly gradated lines that create form and space. The illusion of space is also created by the gradations from white to pink to purple.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

CE 04-6

Description: This predominately blue oil painting contains many parallel wavy vertical black lines, a few red and yellow vertical lines as well with horizontal linear texture.
Date: 2004
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Cezanne Painting

Description: This monochromatic painting depicts the artist Paul Cezanne in the countryside with some of his plain-air paintings and on the left hand edge text and dialogue unrelated to Cezanne.
Date: 2010
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022

CG 04-8

Description: This predominately white painting also includes vertical multi-colored parallel wavy lines with linear texture. In this photograph of the painting, the studio floor of the artist is visible.
Date: 2004
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent
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