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Gallery 1001, 1001 Main Street, Winfield, KS (2026)

09/05/2026

"Venus of Willendorf" (c. 28,000–25,000 bc)

Venus of Willendorf, Upper Paleolithic female figurine found in 1908 at Willendorf, Austria, that is perhaps the most familiar of some 40 small portable human figures (mostly female) that had been found intact or nearly so by the early 21st century. (Roughly 80 more exist as fragments or partial figures.)

The statuette—made of oolitic limestone tinted with red ochre pigment (not found in Willendorf) would indicate that the artifact was made elsewhere and carried to Willendorf. Its arms, though visible, are negligible and crudely depicted. Though a head is present, the only detail to be seen is a pattern representing a braid or cap; there are no facial features. Feet too are missing and were probably never part of the overall design.

It has been suggested that she is a fertility figure, a good-luck totem or mother goddess symbol.

09/04/2026

Altamira Bison Paintings (c. 14,820 to 13,130)

Moving ahead around 60,000 years (give or take), we arrive at the Altamira cave in northern Spain. Altamira is famous for its magnificent prehistoric paintings and engravings.

Discovered by a hunter in 1868, the cave was visited by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1876. He returned in 1879 to excavate the floor of the cave’s entrance chamber, unearthing animal bones and stone tools. On one visit in the late summer, he was accompanied by his eight-year-old daughter, Maria, who first noticed the paintings of bison on the ceiling of a side chamber. Convinced of the antiquity of the paintings and the objects, Sanz de Sautuola published descriptions of his finds in 1880.

The black paint used in the drawings was determined to be composed largely of charcoal, which can be radiocarbon dated. By the turn of the 21st century, this method had been applied to several images on the Altamira ceiling. Scientists now believe the ceiling paintings were done during the Paleolithic period.

And that ain't no bull!

09/03/2026

"Blombos Ochre Block, South Africa" (c 72,000 BC)

This 77,000 year old ochre block excavated from Blombos Cave by Christopher Henshilwood is among humanity’s oldest carved objects. Humans began manufacturing paint in Blombos cave over 100,000 years ago. By 77,000 years ago they were carving patterns onto objects.

09/02/2026

Gallery 1001 Presents Joeni Fragadakis' "METAMORPHOSIS" - ART THAT AWAKENS TRANSFORMATION exhibit premiering Friday, September 4th from 5 to 7 PM
For those of you who didn't know, Joeni is the talent behind the incredible murals on the 10th Street side of the Gallery 1001. As a part of her exhibit, Joeni will be unveiling her new mural for the gallery.
In case your wondering what it looks like, well, show up on the 4th and we'll all find out together! Snacks, meat and cheese tray as well as all of the other accoutrements will be available for those in attendance.
We cannot wit to see Joeni's ne work and our new mural. In fact, I think that we are all filled with AN TIS I PA TION!

09/01/2026

"Cupule" (?)

Archaeologists tell us that Cupules are the earliest known prehistoric art, and have been found on every continent except Antarctica. It has also been discussed and stated that cupules were produced during all three eras of the Stone Age. The Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic (2.5 million years to 6,000 years ago).

According to Robert G Bednarik, a famed Australian prehistorian and cognitive archeologist (yeah, way beyond my knowledge), who's principal interests are in the origins of the human ability to create constructs of reality, and in a variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest. This includes the beginnings of art and language, and technological developments providing a measure of early human capacities, such as seafaring and the use of beads.

Okay, so this dude has written a bunch of books and claims that cupules, like the one shown, are actually early examples of hominid art. I'll give in to the fact that he has studied and written extensively on the subject, but after what little research I have done and interesting rocks with a bunch of holes in them that I have seen, I would question that this and other similar stones were created by our beyond ancient ancestors.

What do you all think? Is this one of the earliest forms of sculpture, or just a cool looking rock? You all be the judge.

08/31/2026

"The Problem We All Live With" (1963) - Norman Rockwell

In one of the most powerful paintings that I have ever seen. This painting marked a major shift for Rockwell as he moved away from lighthearted magazine covers to confront raw social injustice and racism head-on.

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. To ensure she made it safely to school, Federal judges ordered four Deputy U.S. Marshals to es**rt young Ruby to keep her safe from angry crowds. Rockwell created the artwork for LOOK magazine, where it was published as a two-page spread in January 1964.

We see Ruby, wearing a clean white dress, hair ribbons, and clean sneakers, looking neat and innocent walking past block wall defaced with racial slurs, a smashed tomato, and the letters "K*K". What I have always found fascinating about this work is how the synchronized, headless framing of the marshals creates a sense of rigid, automated movement that contrasts with Ruby's brave, individual steps.

08/30/2026

"John Wayne" - (1973) - Norman Perceval Rockwell (1894 - 1978)

Born in New York City, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator. He transferred to the Chase Art School at the age of 14, and then went on to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. There, he was taught by famous artists such as Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman

Rockwell’s first commission came when he was 18, with his first illustration for Carl H. Claudy’s "Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature." It wasn't long after that Rockwell began producing works for "St. Nicholas Magazine" and the Boy Scouts of America’s publication "Boys’ Life", of which he later became the art editor.

Rockwell’s involvement with The Saturday Evening Post began in 1916. His family had moved to New Rochelle, where Rockwell shared a studio with cartoonist Clyde Forsythe, who worked for the Post. Forsythe helped Rockwell submit his first successful cover painting, Mother’s Day Off, to the Post in 1916. Forty-seven years later, Rockwell’s work had appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post with the last, a portrait of John F. Kennedy, appeared in 1963, a week after the president’s assassination.

Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.”

About the painting:
In 1973, The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (then known as the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center) commissioned the piece to celebrate Wayne's induction into the Hall of Great Western Performers.

John Wayne sat inside Norman Rockwell's studio in Stockbridge, MA, so the artist could paint a portrait of the actor for True West Magazine.

08/29/2026

"Girl With Tear III" - (1977) - Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)

Today, I wanted to introduce, or re-introduce one of my favorite artists, Mr. Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein was a founder and foremost practitioner of Pop art, which is a movement that countered the techniques and concepts of Abstract Expressionism with images and techniques taken from popular culture. In Roy's case, comics books.

As a teenager, Lichtenstein studied briefly with the painter Reginald Marsh. After serving in the military during World War II, he attended the Ohio State University, teaching there from 1946 to 1951 and receiving a masters degree in 1949. He also taught at New York State University College, and at Douglass College of Rutgers University.

Early on, Lichtenstein painted themes from the American West in a variety of modern art styles, even trying Abstract Expressionism. His interest in the comic-strip cartoon as an art theme may have began with a painting of Mickey Mouse and Donald duck in 1960 for his children. However, he was dissatisfied with his technique, nor did he care for direct appropriation. He wanted something more. Roy increased the size of his canvases and began to manipulate the graphic and linguistic conventions of comic strips dealing with such genres as romance, war, and science fiction. In the style of comic strips, he used words to express sound effects. He developed a detached, mass-produced effect by outlining areas of primary color with thick black lines and by using a technique that simulated benday screening (a dot pattern used by engravers). His first one-man show, held in New York City in 1962, was a great commercial success, and his innovative work found an international audience. In 1966 he became the first American to exhibit at London’s Tate Gallery.

In my youth, I spent the majority of my allowance and paper route money on them. I became a fan of Roy Lichtenstein before I ever knew who he was and that his work was considered art.

08/28/2026

"Self-Portrait" (1935) - Ivan Albright

I just thought that I'd add Albright's self portrait to show you why MGM commissioned him to do yesterday's painting. He even did it to himself. I'll bet that portraits he did for his family and friends went over real well. Again, YEESH, say I.

08/27/2026

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1943) - Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (1897 –1983)

YEESH!

This bizarre image was commissioned by MGM for their 1945 movie of the same name.

Albright was contacted by the studio for his style of painting. He was noted for the exaggerated realism of his portraits, figure paintings, and still life images, as well as rendering the effects of aging on the human body. In 1916, after a year at Northwestern University, Ivan transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied architecture and engineering. During War I, Albright was a medical draughtsman, which required close scrutiny of wounded flesh and anatomy, which explains a lot.

In 1920, Albright studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his talents for life and portrait painting were recognized. Graduating with honors in 1923. After briefly studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and New York's National Academy of Design. Albright launched his painting career in 1925, working in a studio in Warrenville, Illinois.

His obsessively detailed paintings defined his idiosyncratic mature style, which emphasizes the physical imperfections of ordinary people and objects. Choosing titles for his works that evoke time's passage and the inevitability of decay and death, Albright drew on the long tradition of the so-called vanitas, a symbolic representation of the vanity of worldly ambition. Even his own self-portraits, which he made throughout his career, expressed his morbid fascination with the unflattering evidence of mortality.

In 1941, one of his paintings won top prizes at major exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia and, in 1950 he achieved full membership in the National Academy of Design. He was among eleven American artists invited to submit self-portraits to Florence's Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Museum) in 1981. A prolific printmaker as well as painter, Albright traveled widely from the late 1940s on, eventually moving to Vermont where made his home in 1965.

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