Against the Wall Gallery Presents:
Flight of the Blue Heron
The introduction
of a new art gallery in Seward, Nebraska
March 3rd
– 31st,
2006
Opening
Reception: Friday, March 3rd
6-9 p.m.
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March
brings about a warming of the skies and a
migration that is sure to tantalize the eye.
Images of the past come anew in Flight of the
Blue Heron a new exhibition at Against the Wall
Gallery featuring selected antique prints from
the collection of Jim Rosowski, PhD. This
exhibition is a preview of a dream that Jim is
realizing in Seward, Nebraska, an antique store,
art gallery and night club to be known as the
Blue Heron, which will open this summer or fall
west of the courthouse. Works will include
original, hand colored lithography of John J.
Audubon, John Gould, and others. All items will
be for sale. The exhibition
will be on display March 3rd
– 31st,
with an opening reception on Friday, March 3rd,
2006 from 6 to 9 pm. Live music (TBA), hors
d'oeuvres and refreshments will accompany the
artwork. Dr. Rosowski will be on hand to answer
questions you may have about the works, which
will be framed and unframed.
Please
join us in March for this excellent presentation
of natural history and beauty.
Against
the Wall Gallery is open Mon., Wed., Fri. and
Sat., 10-5; Tues, Thurs., 10-8. We are located in
Lincoln's Historic Havelock area at 6220 Havelock
Avenue. For further information, please contact
us at (402) 467-3484 or e-mail us at u
a t w (at)
a l l t e l (dot)
n e t .
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About Jim Rosowski: |
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Jim
is currently a ½ time professor of biology
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and he
lives in Garland. He started print collecting
as a graduate student at the University of
Arizona, in Tucson, where he worked part time
in the antique print gallery of C. Philip
Boyer, who was in his 70s at the time.
It all began one afternoon in 1967 when he
was in the gallery looking for a Hogarth
print for his wife, who was getting her Ph.D.
in 18th Century British
Literature. The response was “Yes,
I do have many Hogarth prints, but would you
mind helping me move a
refrigerator.” At the end of the
afternoon, having moved the refrigerator,
some tables, file cabinets and other items,
he walked out the gallery with a
“free” Hogarth print. Soon
Jim was working for Mr. Boyer, matting
prints, and then his wife, Sue, joined him in
the enterprise. In this shop Jim
found his second passion to biology, that of
the art of 19th century
naturalists, who used copper plate engravings
and lithography along with hand coloring to
produce spectacular, multiple images of
plants and animals that were affordable but
nevertheless one-of-a kind. From
natural history he began to collect
advertising art (trade cards), and
multicolored postcards, particularly those
for holidays done prior to 1915. A
sample of several of his collecting interests
on paper, beyond natural history, will be on
display.
Journal
Star article about the show...click here!
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