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29 Sally Piller L-77 Evening
Lawrence, KS color woodblock print, 31.5 x 22 $1,500
Sally F. Piller is an artist/printmaker living in Lawrence, KS. After years of making woodblock prints using the Western method of printing with oil based ink on dry paper, she now has immersed herself in the art of moku hanga. This ancient Japanese method has its own set of challenges and many advantages, using nontoxic water based pigments, dampened paper, and the ingenious kento color registration system. Sally recently returned from an artists’ residency in Japan.
30 John Gary Brown L-31 Under The Sky Signs, 1996
Lawrence, KS oil on canvas, 36 x 48.5 $3,000
John Gary Brown lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas and Creede, Colorado. He has a Masters Degree (MFA) from The University of Washington in Seattle. John taught art classes at The University of Kansas, University of Nebraska, The University of Washington and The Wichita Art Museum. He has been painting since 1960 and has sold six hundred paintings in twenty commercial galleries over the years. He has won many museum prizes and purchases, including First Prize at the Mid-America Exhibition at the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, a purchase award at the Joslyn Gallery in Omaha, and a purchase by the Institute of Arts and Letters in New York.