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	<title>Beyond the Exhibition &#187; Collections</title>
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		<title>Cox and Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behind the Scenes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation; John Rogers Cox; American painting; magic realism; Swope; Christina O'Connell; White Cloud: Smithsonian; To Make a Wrold: George Ault and 1940s america; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Geor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because conservation is generally behind-the-scenes I want to share this link to a blog written by Christina O'Connell. http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2011/04/28/less-is-more/]]></description>
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		<title>AAM 2011 Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lee Whisenhunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, TX.  I visited museums, talked with numerous colleagues and sat through several amazing sessions.  I also sat through several really boring sessions.  The thing I&#8217;m taking away from my time there is a reading list.  There were so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation&#8230; yes we can!</title>
		<link>http://www.swope.org/sammyblog/2010/conservation-yes-we-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Standish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the curator and I retrieved two paintings from the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s conservation lab. They had been sent to conservation because one had an abrasion and both were dirty. The Museum staff keeps a running list of objects that need conservation. Prioritized by the severity of damage and how soon they’ll be exhibited, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from American Art 101, Edmond Brucker, Ghost Town, Colorado</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abstraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Scene painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edmond Brucker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghost Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herron School of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I chose this painting as a bridge between the current exhibition of work by Todd Anderson “The Mountains are Shadows” and our upcoming season of Frank Lloyd Wright inspired programs. Anderson deftly marries medium to subject, and as ghost town architecture is often found in mountainous areas I thought this painting was a great segue. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leroy Lamis Obituary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sculpture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[antoine Pevsner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[geometric abstract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leroy Lamis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nam Gabo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plexiglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lippold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terre Haute artists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leroy Lamis, 84, died Thursday August 19th 2010 in Austin, TX.   Mr. Lamis was a sculptor and long-time professor of Art at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.  His Plexiglas sculptures, known for their geometric elegance, were exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and are in the collections of leading museums and private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Swope Exhibition, Still Life: Quiet Revelation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lee Whisenhunt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Petrulis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[still life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swope Collection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Varaldo Cariani, Bowl of Zinnias, 1962 A new exhibition of still life paintings from the Swope Art Museum collection has opened at the Museum and is on view through August 20, 2010.  Still Life: Quiet Revelation features over twenty-five paintings from the late nineteenth-century to the present illustrating many different perspectives on the still life.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encounters with two paintings and a conservator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1930s and 40s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Art History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american scene Painters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[museum practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painting conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painting Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tempera painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Hart Benton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zoltan Sepeshy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I used to think of when I heard the word tempera was that powdered paint we used in elementary school. Of course I didn’t know then that tempera (paint using a binder of protein such as egg or milk) can be traced back to ancient Egyptian culture, or that it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SWOPE ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES  NEW AWARD AND INAUGURAL RECIPIENT</title>
		<link>http://www.swope.org/sammyblog/2010/swope-art-museum-announces-new-award-and-inaugural-recipient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swope.org/sammyblog/2010/swope-art-museum-announces-new-award-and-inaugural-recipient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lee Whisenhunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March of 2009, the Swope Art Museum and Terre Haute community lost an ardent supporter and tireless cultural advocate, Marilyn Wheeler Pendergast.  Among her numerous awards, accomplishments and affiliations, Mrs. Pendergast was the President of the Swope’s Board of Managers for thirty years, leading the volunteer board established by the will of Sheldon Swope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>attributed to Ralph Blackelock</title>
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		<comments>http://www.swope.org/sammyblog/2010/attributed-to-ralph-blackelock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Museum visit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Encampment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Blakelock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Art 101 blog attributed to Blakelock I was all set to talk about the romantic landscape and the dubious use of bitumen with paint by artists of the 19th century. But this painting has another fascinating story related to its attribution. Have you ever wondered why a work of art is listed as “attributed to” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>companion looking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Petrulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[american Impressionism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[viewing art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Edouard Scott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is common to think of visiting an art museum as a solitary activity. And it can be conducive to quiet contemplation. However, as I found out a couple of days ago, viewing art with a group can focus your attention on things you might overlook on your own. For this months American Art 101 [...]]]></description>
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