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Print
[Woman and Glass]
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
25 x 18 15/16 in. (63.5 x 48.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1950
1950
1950
Arena Group
Print
lower right, below imagelower left, below imagelower left, in margin
1996.40
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
96.40SL1
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2 x 2
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96.40DI#2
digital image
3/15/2011
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Print
Two Sisters
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
26 7/8 x 20 5/8 in. (68.3 x 52.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1950
1950
1950
Arena Group
Print
lower right, below imagelower left, below image
1996.41
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
96.41SL1
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2 x 2
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96.41DI#2
digital image
3/15/2011
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Print
In the Garden
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
25 1/8 x 19 in. (63.8 x 48.2 cm)
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1950
1950
1950
20th century, Arena Group, birds, daily life, people in art, trees in art, wood blocks
Print
By overlapping a few simple forms, Dargis has created a lively and evocative scene that may have been inspired by memories of his Lithuanian home. Whether working in realistic or abstract styles, Dargis composed the elements of his prints and paintings in a bold and striking manner.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
lower rightlower leftlower left corner
1953.20
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
53.20SL1
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2 x 2
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53.20DI#2
digital image
Front
3/1/2011
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Print
Composition #64 - Girl with Plant
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
29 1/2 x 21 in. (74.9 x 53.3 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1953
1953
1953
Arena Group, art with Rochester connections, women, woodcuts
Print
The gauzy delicacy of line in the border and the almost winglike forms of the figure’s legs create an illusion of weightlessness that corresponds with the fragility of the small plant barely resting her hands.
lower rightlower left, in the blocklower left
1953.65
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
53.65DI#1
digital image
3/15/2011
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Print
The Harpist
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
18 5/8 x 15 in. (47.3 x 38.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1950
1950
1950
20th century, Arena Group, art with Rochester connections, musical instruments (depictions), women, woodcuts
Print
Using just a few expressive curves, Dargis has abstracted the essence of the harpist’s engagement with her instrument. He used the medium of the woodcut technique to his advantage in creating, with a few simple lines, the strings of the harp and the texture of the harpist’s skin. In this print he also employed the collagraph technique, in which a part of the image (in this case the harpist’s dress) are impressions of textured materials glued to a cardboard or metal base.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
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1956.58
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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full
8x10
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56.58DI1
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56.58DI#2
digital image
Front
3/1/2011
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Print
Untitled
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
21 15/16 x 17 5/16 in. (55.8 x 44 cm)
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Printer's ink, oil paint, colored pastel
Printer's ink, oil paint, colored pastel
1957
1957
1957
Arena Group
Print
One of the most intriguing aspects of Dargis’s work is its fluid shift from almost folk art-like simplicity to sophisticated abstraction. Yet, even in his most abstract work his imagery is never completely removed from the natural world.
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1964.84
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
64.84DI#1
digital image
Front
3/1/2011
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Print
Untitled
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
24 1/8 x 17 15/16 in. (61.2 x 45.6 cm)
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ca. 1951
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Arena Group
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1964.85
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
64.85SL1
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2 x 2
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64.85DI#1
digital image
6/4/2009
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64.85DI#2
digital image
Front
3/1/2011
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Print
Figure with Still Life
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
22 7/8 x 16 3/8 in. (58.1 x 41.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
1952
1952
1952
Arena Group
Print
In this print, the grain of the wood block that was used for printing has left a ghostly impression on the paper. Dargis most likely printed each impression in the edition several times, using one or more plates to print different areas of the image. Artist and MAG preparator Carol Acquilano states, “With Dargis, as with many printmakers, selective inking and wiping is very common, even with an edition.”
[Gallery label text, 2011]
lower right, below imagelower left, below imageverso, lower left
1998.3
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
98.3SL1
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2 x 2
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98.3DI1
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98.3DI#2
digital image
Front
3/1/2011
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Print
Lithuanian Program
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
16 9/16 x 11 in. (42 x 28 cm)
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1952
1952
1952
Arena Group
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Dargis’s 1951 arrival in Rochester and interest in his work on the part of MAG’s director, Gertrude Herdle Moore, and her sister, curator Isabel Herdle, prompted an exhibition of Lithuanian artists and culture. This exhibition was part of the ongoing Homelands series, begun at MAG in 1919, to highlight the cultural inheritance of various national groups represented in the Rochester population. Accompanying the exhibition was a performance of Lithuanian music and dance, for which Dargis designed this program cover. A solo exhibition of Dargis’s work accompanied the show.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
2005.83
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/3/2005
5981.94DI1
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00/00/00
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2005.83DI#2
digital image
full
9/27/2006
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Print
Untitled
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
17 x 11 13/16 in. (43.2 x 30 cm)
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Arena Group
Print
lower right, below imagelower left, below image
2005.87
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/3/2005
5981.98DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2005.87DI#1
digital image
8/1/2007
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Print
Untitled
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
19 7/16 x 15 3/8 in. (49.3 x 39.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
1950
1950
1950
Arena Group
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lower right, below imagelower left, below image
2005.132
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/3/2005
5981.143DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2005.132DI#2
digital image
Front
5/15/2007
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Print
St. George
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
25 1/8 x 19 in. (63.8 x 48.3 cm)
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1949
1949
1949
Arena Group
Print
St. George is a very important figure in Lithuanian culture, even appearing on the country’s coat of arms. He is a protector from evil and a guardian of cattle. His feast day, April 23, is celebrated with many agricultural traditions (perhaps the reason for the stems that flank the saint’s name in the print). Dargis has illustrated the familiar legend of St. George killing the dragon, but given it his own expressive form, with the small white horse pitted against the writhing dragon, whose tail winds all the way around the mother and child. Like the proper knight that he was believed to be, St. George is suited in armor and holds a shield that is anachronistically decorated with an image of himself!
[Gallery label text, 2011]
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2005.133
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/3/2005
5981.144DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2005.133DI#2
digital image
full
9/27/2006
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Print
Christmas Greetings
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
Primary
10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (26.1 x 16.5 cm)
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1955
1955
1955
Arena Group
Print
This charming card, sent to Rochester artist Sylvia Davis, includes a simple menorah-like form that suggests a connection to the Jewish holiday Chanukah as well as to Christmas.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
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2006.22
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/17/2006
6051.8.DI1.JPG
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2006.22DI#2
digital image
8/1/2007
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Print
Untitled (2 figures in a boat)
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
Primary
25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.2 cm)
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Arena Group
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2006.23
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Memorial Art Gallery
3/17/2006
6051.9.DI1.JPG
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2006.23DI#1
digital image
Front
3/14/2007
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Print
Untitled (3 figures)
Alfonsas Dargis, (Mazeikiai, Lithuania, 1909 - 1996, Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dargis, Alfonsas
United States
1909 - 1996
Male
Primary
24 15/16 x 19 in. (63.3 x 48.2 cm)
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ca. 1949
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1954
Arena Group
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What looks at first glance like a tree reveals itself to be a grouping of three figures topped with Dargis’s characteristic triangular faces, set against a domed form. The image floats against a blue background – perhaps the sky – creating an ethereal effect.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
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2006.13
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Memorial Art Gallery
3/17/2006
6051.10.DI1.JPG
digital image
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2006.13DI#1
digital image
Front
3/14/2007
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