This collection is a gift of Ellen Land-Weber, Professor of Art here at Humboldt State University. This collection belonged to her mother, Florence Epstein, who appreciates and collects fine art.

Doves, Byzantine architectural elements and the expressive features of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke are motifs repeatedly used by Shahn to reflect his feeling of love and loneliness.

Part of a series painted during the 1940's and 50's, this lithograph reflects Braque's preoccupation with birds and space in art and their forgotten symbolic meanings.

Arthur B. Davies
"Doorway to Illusion", 1929
Soft Ground Etching With Aquatint

The mirror in Davies' print serves as a metaphor for illusion. Which is more real, the woman or her reflection?

 

Born in 1901 in Italy, Marino Marini studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. The theme of people interacting with horses is often the subject matter of his work.

Arthur B. Davies
"Prelude", 1919
Lithograph

Lovis Corinth
"The Letter 'L' from the Alphabet in Pictures", 1917
Lithograph

One of many illustrations from Corinth's "Alphabet in Pictures". The Letter "L" presents us with a Lion attacking a Giraffe. The inscription in German reads, "Lion Ride!"

This illustration depicts a humourous scene from Nikolai Gogol's novel, Dead Souls. "The door opened and Proshka entered, a boy of thirteen, shod in such huge boots that as he stumbled along he nearly drew his feet out of them."