Exhibit: The Beatles
July 1 through July 31, Ragtag Cinemacafé gallery, Columbia

During the month of July, some of the anti-Beatle letters received by entertainment journalist Arthur Unger will be on display at the Ragtag Cinemacafé gallery. Unger received these letters after John Lennon made his famous remark about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus. The Unger papers are held at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia.

Exhibit Opening: Lawrence Rugolo: Forty Years of Printmaking
July 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m

Nationally recognized printmaker Lawrence Rugolo has lived and worked in Missouri for over forty years. In this exhibit on display in the Main Gallery until September 15, a retrospective sampling of Rugolo’s serigraphs showcases his inventive use of the silk-screen technique. Drawn from the permanent holdings of the Society, as well as the personal collection of the artist, the often vibrantly colored images in the exhibition range in subject matter from naturalistic landscapes to surrealistic visions and geometric abstractions.

1993 - A Summer to Remember by Lawrence Rugolo

Exhibit Tour:
August 28, 5:30 p.m.

Join artist Lawrence Rugolo as he presents an in-depth tour of the exhibit Lawrence Rugolo: Forty Years of Printmaking. The artist, a nationally recognized innovator in the medium of serigraphy, has lived and worked in Missouri since the early 1960s. During the tour, Rugolo will discuss his experiments with technique and explain how aspects of his work reflect technical, historical, and personal developments over the course of four decades.

 

Artrageous Fridays
July 27, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

The State Historical Society’s Art Gallery will be open from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on July 27 for the citywide gallery crawl, Artrageous Fridays. At fifteen minutes after every hour, Joan Stack, Society art curator, will present a twenty-minute tour of one of the exhibitions on display.

• 6:15 Tour of Daniel Fitzpatrick: Artist/Cartoonist
• 7:15 Tour of Lawrence Rugolo: Forty Years of Printmaking (the artist will be present during this tour)
• 8:15 Tour of Artworks by George Caleb Bingham from the Permanent Collection

Exhibit: Exploration, Interpretation, and the Works of George Caleb Bingham
Through August 19, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia campus

The State Historical Society is lending four artworks, including Bingham’s celebrated 1876 Portrait of Vinnie Ream, to the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology to support this exhibit. The exhibit, on display in the museum’s second-floor galleries in Pickard Hall, provides visitors with the opportunity to view several rarely seen Bingham paintings, including Captured by Indians, The Dull Story, and Major Dean in Jail. In conjunction with the museum’s exhibit, the Society is displaying ten paintings by Bingham, including the artist’s masterpieces Order No. 11 and Watching the Cargo.

Talk: Tad Bartimus on Women and Media
September 11, Ellis Auditorium, University of Missouri-Columbia campus

Tad Bartimus, a 1969 graduate of the , worked at the Associated Press for 25 years, covering the Vietnam War and human interest stories in the American West. She has been a Pulitzer finalist three times. Join Bartimus at this speaking engagement as part of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the National Women and Media Collection. A reception in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia (WHMC-Columbia) reading room will follow the talk. The time of the talk has yet to be determined. WHMC-Columbia currently has a rotating exhibit on display featuring the records of journalists and media organizations from its holdings. During July and August, the exhibit will showcase Donna Allen, and Bartimus will be featured in September.

Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman
by Thomas McKenney and James Hall

Exhibit: Picturing Native Americans in the Nineteenth Century: Lithographs from McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America
September 29 through March

Thomas McKenney, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, worked with writer James Hall to publish a large portfolio of portraits and biographies of American Indians in 1832. This exhibit, which will be on display in the Main Gallery, will feature many of the remarkable hand-colored lithographs that illustrated the book. Viewers are encouraged to contemplate the images and consider how they influenced past and present perceptions of Native Americans in the United States and abroad.