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Auction Ends: Apr 19, 2006 06:00 PM EDT

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Anita Douthat and Cal Kowal, <u>Untitled</u>

Anita Douthat and Cal Kowal, Untitled

Item Number
135
Estimated Value
800 USD
Opening Bid
450 USD

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Item Description

Anita Douthat's photograms--cameraless images exposed in sunlight--are widely exhibited and included in numerous collections such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Columbus Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. She received a BS degree from the Institute of Design, Chicago and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Douthat was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992. Her work was featured in two-person exhibitions with Cal Kowal at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2000 and the Weston Art Gallery in 2003. In 2004 Douthat was included in the exhibition The Chicago School at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Last year, she participated in the exhibition "Ideas into Objects: Reinterpreting the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" commemorating the Weston Art Gallery's ten year anniversary. Born in Cincinnati, she currently resides in Alexandria, Kentucky.

Cal Kowal's photographs and self-published artist's books have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester. His work was shown in two person exhibitions with Anita Douthat at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts. The exhibition Taken by Design organized at the Art Institute of Chicago also included his work. In 2004, his work was included in The Chicago School at the Cincinnati Art Museum and a major assemblage work was added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Last year his work was included in the exhibition Altered States at the Weston Art Gallery. Kowal received an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago and an M.S. from the Institute of Design, Chicago. A recipient of two fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, he taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1971 to 2002.

Item Special Note

2005 Collaboration print Gold toned silver gelatin photogram and graphite 20 x 24 inches

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Gift of the artists