Welcome

Welcome to the Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University. The MoTTU Art Collection encompasses more than 24,000 objects and five exhibition galleries managed by the Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art. This blog features an important part of the collection, which is available for study at the Museum by appointment. 

Please note: Amid staff changes, fulfilling Museum priorities and needs, and launching new programs, the Art Division is working to update the AP/RC blog as soon as possible. If you would like to submit an entry for review, please send your proposal to museum.texastech@ttu.edu. 

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Kent Kapplinger

This gallery contains 26 photos.

Kapplinger, emeritus professor from teaching printmaking at North Dakota State University, created Beautiful Recollections (2001) as a collaboration between himself and his father-in-law Elmer Weerts, at the time a semi-retired farmer. The multi-layered and multi-processed work consists of eleven woodcut, color … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Joyce Tenneson

This gallery contains 9 photos.

These nine photographs are from four different bodies of work by Tenneson (born 1955), an artist whose reputation catapulted with several published series featuring portraits of women [e.g., Transformations (1994), Illuminations (1998), Light Warriors (2000), and Wise Women (2002)] . Her … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Vernon Fisher

This gallery contains 2 photos.

The AP/RC seeks opportunities to connect prints in the collection with preparatory work for the printed image. In this case, we were able to obtain from Landfall Press a drawing by Vernon Fisher that relates directly to the lithograph, Perdido en el … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Larry Fink

This gallery contains 10 photos.

In the 1950s Fink (born 1941) hitchhiked through the Midwest United States to Long Island, New York, his family’s home. The peripatetic teenager moved on again, but just a short distance, to Minetta Lane, just two blocks from Washington Square … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Kristin Capp

This gallery contains 44 photos.

Most of Capp’s images posted in this AP/RC blog are from her work among the Hutterite communities in eastern Washington state, many published in her book, Hutterite: A World of Grace (Edition Stemmle, 1998). Capp was born in Portland Oregon … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Mort Baranoff

This gallery contains 25 photos.

Baranoff (1923-1978), a native of Montreal, Quebec, graduated in 1952 from the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 1959. In the same year … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Margo Kren

This gallery contains 16 photos.

Kren created this suite of lithographs, Dreams and Memories, with Mike Sims of Lawrence Lithography Workshop now located in Kansas City. Concerning this suite, she observed that, “(It) evolved in the early 1980’s while I was working on a series of … Continue reading

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New Edition to the AP/RC: Caleb Cain Marcus

This gallery contains 38 photos.

Marcus was born in Colorado in 1978 and currently lives in New York City.  The images donated to the AP/RC were created over a 1,500 mile journey of 40 days along the length of India and Bangladesh’s Ganges river. A … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Neal Cox

This gallery contains 89 photos.

Neal Cox, currently on the faculty in the School of Art at Steven F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, is a native of Utah. Cox received his MFA from University of Texas, San Antonio where he studied with another AP/RC … Continue reading

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