Obituary for Bernie Fuchs, 76, an illustrator whose influential work defined an era.
He graduated from WUSTL art school iin 1954.
His paintings were exhibited in galleries worldwide. Jill Bossert, editor of Society of Illustrators books, once described Mr. Fuchs' skill: "His colors shine with the brilliance of stained glass as if lit from within. His equine pictures rival Degas."

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1. Sept. 19, 2009 — Illustrator's Works Defined an Era in the The Washington Post

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Art review of the exhibition "Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait With Horn" at New York's Neue Galerie. In 1947 Beckmann moved to the United States, where he took a teaching position at WUSTL. He also taught at the art school of the Brooklyn Museum.

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1. Aug. 8, 2008 — The Mythic Imagination of Beckmann in Exile in the The New York Times

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Tuesday that it had acquired "Arii Matamoe," an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin that has been in a private collection in Switzerland for decades and has been exhibited publicly only once since 1946.
Elizabeth Childs, a Gauguin scholar who is chairwoman of WUSTL's art history and archaeology department, comments.

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1. March 12, 2008 — Getty Museum Buys a Seldom-Exhibited Gauguin in the The New York Times

The art exhibit "Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture," is being presented by WUSTL's Kemper Art Museum. It is curated by Catharina Manchanda, and it includes the famous silkscreens of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Roy Lichtenstein's pop art images of blondes in comics.

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1. Jan. 19, 2008 — Blonde Ambition: Iconic Blondes Shape History in the ABC News -- Good Morning America

Ronald Leax, WUSTL professor of art, received a CAA award as part of their eleven Awards for Distinction for 2008. These annual awards honor outstanding member achievements and reaffirm CAA's mission to encourage the highest standards of scholarship, practice, and teaching in the arts.

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1. Jan. 7, 2008 — Winners of the 2008 Awards for Distinction Announced in the ArtDaily.org

This past Friday, on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman's "Assignment America" segment featured the special relationship between WUSTL architecture professor Bob Hansman and his adopted son Jovan.

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1. Aug. 10, 2007 — A most unlikely father and son in the CBS Evening News / Assignment America

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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Japanese manga, or comic books, in the United States, yet Korean comics remain relatively unknown. This fall, the WUSTL's Kemper Art Museum will present Korean Comics: A Society through Small Frames, a rare U.S. exhibition of work from both North and South Korea.
The exhibition provides a decade-by-decade glimpse of the evolving social realities in contemporary Korea, as depicted in comics ranging from popular children's entertainment to aggressive forms of political commentary.

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1. Aug. 9, 2007 — Korean Comics: A Society through Small Frames at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in the ArtDaily.org

The January issue of Art in America includes a story on architect Fumihiko Maki, who was commissioned by WUSTL in 1960 to design Steinberg Hall as a home for the university's highly regarded art collection. Nine years ago he was selected again to design an entire arts campus, to be called the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. It opened in October. The article mentions current exhibits organized by museum director Sabine Eckmann, chief curator Lutz Koepnick, and others.

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1. Jan. 1, 2007 — Maki Designs Art Complex in St. Louis in the Art in America
2. Jan. 8, 2007 — Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany in the Dexigner.com

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A scholar has suggested that ''Laocoon,'' a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery -- possibly by Michelangelo himself.
WUSTL art history professor William Wallace comments.

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1. April 18, 2005 — An ancient masterpiece or a master's forgery? in the The New York Times

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Obituary for Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald, a sculptor who produced public commissions for several American cities, churches and universities. He taught at several schools, including WUSTL. In 1956, he gave up teaching and moved to Castine to be a sculptor.

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1. Nov. 1, 2004 — Clark B. Fitz-Gerald, 87, Sculptor in the New York Times

Artist's rendering of Krysztof Wodiczko's The St. Louis Projection.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko made his reputation 20 years ago taking on big political issues. At the height of the apartheid era, he projected a swastika onto South Africa's embassy in London. In recent years, he's added audio to his multimedia projects and turned from the political to the personal. In 1998, he used audio and video projected onto the Bunker Hill Monument to tell the stories of mothers from Charlestown who'd lost children to murder. When he was invited to mount one of his projections in St. Louis by Washington University, he says he once again wanted to give voice to people who had lost loved ones to violence.

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1. April 16, 2004 — In St. Louis, Healing the Scars of Violence with Art in the National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"

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