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The Big Heat
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.
BJ 02-9
This predominately orange/red painting contains lined texture at various horizontal angles and contains curved vertical yellow parallel lines.
Blessing of the Sea
The vertical strip of printed cloth depicts at forty-five degree angle wave like forms resembling water. At the left edge are orange square checkerboard shapes.
[blue and green waves layered amongst gray and brown frames]
Waves depicted in greens and blues within and without several framing devices of shades of gray and edged in brown.
Blue Tide
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.
BM 03-1
This predominately black painting also contains curved and wavy parallel vertical orange lines and lined texture perpendicular to orange lines.
Bridges Into Space
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.
BS 03-7
Light green painting contains many vertical wavy parallel black lines contrasted with perpendicular lined texture.
Bush and McCain
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.
Bush Meets Pope
The painting depicts George W. Bush meeting the Pope, Pope Benedict XVI. The colors are solid and flat with black outlines.
BV 03-10
Predominately white painting contains vertical curvy and wavy parallel black and gray lines with horizontal lined texture.
C 97-3
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.
CA 04-2
This mostly white painting includes vertical wavy parallel black and gray lines and lined horizontal texture.
Cain and Abel
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.
Canal
Water rushing into or out of this gradated in light brown tunnel creates a deep recession into space.
Canyon
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.
Canyon No. 2
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.
CD 04-5
This predominately yellow oil painting also has many vertical wavy black lines and linear horizontal texture.
CE 04-6
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.
Cezanne Painting
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.
CF 04-7
This predominately blue painting includes vertical black wavy lines and linear texture.
CG 04-8
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.
CH 04-9
This predominately red/orange painting has darker vertical wavy parallel lines and linear texture.
CI 04-10
This yellow painting includes curved and wavy lines with perpendicular linear texture.
[circles, rectanges and gridded window shapes create depth]
The artwork is layered with many concentric circles and gridded window images from handmade papers arranged at angles to give illusion of depth. The colors are muted blues and browns with some rusty pinks.
[circles, squares, and horizontal lines floating]
The horizontal predominately blue and muted gray fabric artwork includes shiny circles, squares with horizons, and groups of parallel lines that float through the space of the artwork.
CJ 05-1
This painting has a white background and many vertical curved and parallel multi-colored lines with a horizontal linear texture.
CK 05-2
This painting's background is predominately white and has many vertical wavy parallel multi-colored lines.
Clouds
The horizontally situated artwork depicts deep receding space and wide ribbons of gradated colors disappearing into the distance. The sky or space is a greenish blue hue and the ribbons range from rich orange brown to blue-green, dull yellows and beiges.
Clouds in the Evening Glow
Wavy ribbons recede into the distance which is encased in a framed gradation of color and in the background a circular opening through which the ribbons reach.
Clouds That Sail Across the Sea
The artwork depicts some cloud like or wave like shapes in the foreground floating into the distance. The ground is depicted in a series of gradated stripes of dark purples and blues, also receding into the distance.
CO 06-1
This painting consists of a white background with many curved multi-colored lines and heavy linear texture.
The Color of Money
In this horizontally oriented painting, two men, in the foreground, are recognizable depictions of Paul Newman and Tom Cruise from the movie titled The Color of Money. In the background, a car and a woman are seen on the right side of the picture. The older man has his arm around the shoulder of the younger man and is holding a roll of money in front of the face of the younger man. The background is a light bright green color. The young man wears a pink and purple plaid shirt and blue jacket. The older man wears a green coat and has gray hair.
[concentric circle and faces]
Blue amorphic outer shape holds concentric circles in which are faces cut from magazines. In the lower right portion of the work are many parallel vertical gray lines. Wisps of clouds can be seen in the background or sky area.
[concentric circle sphere with floating papers]
This almost square artwork begins with a light brown background and in the center a large pale blue sphere of concentric light blue circles and on the interior of the open sphere are light brown concentric circles and out of the ball shape seem to fly several sheets of paper.
CP 06-2
This oil painting has a predominately white background and many circular multi-colored lines with heavy linear texture.
CU 08-2
This square painting has a predominately light peach background and includes many gray curved lines and linear texture.
[dark blue silk yardage]
The yardage of dyed silk includes vertical blue and brown stripes with circular shapes that resemble eyes or wood knots covering the yardage.
Daybreak
The horizontally placed artwork depicts a rectangular frame shape floating in the upper portion of the image. Receding into the distance are parallel horizontal lines created from textured paper in blues and browns. A vertical ladder shape is in the middle ground next to some silhouette gray geometric shapes reminiscent of buildings.
Delight
The horizontally oriented work of art consists of many shapes and sections. Running horizontally is a long piece divided into two stripes, one green and the upper one a pink brown. Oval and ribbon shapes float across the linear banner. Behind the banner are vertical, placed unevenly, pink and purple panels.
[detail view of frames, clouds, ladder, and wavy canyons]
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[dyed fabric]
The fabric is dyed and includes designs in circular form that seem to resemble the moon or the sun in a warm pink color. The background is a deep blue-green and in the lower portion is a large reddish moon or sun shape that resembles a setting sun.
[dyed silk with horizontal washes of color in blues, greens, and pinks]
Silk yardage dyed in horizontal wash patterns in blues, pinks, and greens.
[dyed silk yardage]
Dyed silk yardage in dark blues with horizontal yellow and blue wave patterns are broken with intervals of vertical lines.
[dyed silk yardage]
Silk yardage dyed in vertical linear patterns of oranges, greens, reds, and browns spotted with circular shapes resembling eyes or knots in wood.
Elvis / Blue Boy Still Life
This large, mostly black and white painting, depicts a scene of a bar fight from one of Elvis Presley's movies and a reproduction of the famous painting, Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough is superimposed. In front of the painting is a wooden table holding an apple, a pear and a pitcher, not unlike a Paul Cezanne still life.
The Europeans
Two figures in the foreground, seen from the chest up, comment on European angst. A figure in silhouette exits by a set of stairs. Bright yellow light illuminates the exterior of the gallery in which the people in the foreground stand. Talk bubbles are used for the figures' comments. A poster on the wall depicts German Expressionism. The style is like that of cartoons and graphic novels. The colors are bright and flat.
Excuse Me
A male figure in the foreground looks at something on a woman's desk. She is seated and holds a telephone receiver. Behind her is a man looking closely at a painting on the wall. The woman states, "Excuse me, these are private papers." The painting on the wall consists of squares of different colors. The man in the foreground is painted in a dark pinkish red tone.
Fall River
The long vertical piece is in muted browns and blues. Many circular shapes seem to float or fall down from the top of the work. Horizontal hatch type marks decorate the entire piece.
[framed masked face floating above wavy landscape receding into distance]
Depth is achieved by the diminishing scale of purple wavy lines atop green straight verticals. Floating to the right is a multi-shade brown frame, again with the illusion of depth and inside is a masked face.
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