Jerry Rudquist (1932 - 2001)

Serie ??? (Titel) mit 12 Lithographien, ca. 28 x 50 cm

Aufnahmen teilweise unscharf; Lithos in Cellophan eingepackt und auf Karton aufgezogen.

Moving Man-Serie, 1971, 10  Lithographien

ca. 70 x 100 cm; jeweils in Cellophan eingepackt, auf Karton gesichert)

(s. auch bei http://www.grovelandgallery.com)

Jerry Rudquist

Geboren 1932 in Fargo, North Dakota, gestorben 2001 in Minneapolis.

Bei youtube gibt es seit 2011 ein Video, das in 5 Minuten JR sehr gut portraitiert:

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwbzZGk0f8

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 Von Seite: http://www.grovelandgallery.com/artistdetail.php?aID=RudJ (2010)

 Twin Cities artist whose career spanned four decades, Jerry Rudquist was an integral member of the national art community. Rudquist earned his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1956 and his MFA in 1958 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He began teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul in 1958 where remained until his retirement in 2000. In 1963 Rudquist was honored with a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Center and later, in 1971, with a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Between 1997 and 1998, Rudquist was the subject of a traveling exhibition, "Rudquist/Reconsidering," which was shown at four Minnesota colleges and universities. At the time of his death in 2001, Rudquist was considered one of the Midwest's most significant artists.

Dort waren 2010 eine Menge Bilder von JR zum Verkauf angezeigt, u.a. aus derselben Serie, die wir haben:

 "Moving Man: Wosher" 1971

 lithograph 42.00" x 30.00"  -  $700.00

 Auch weitere Lithos aus dieser „Moving Man“-Serie waren damals mit 700 $ angesetzt.

 Internetadresse, Text und Lithopreise sind im Nov. 2013 identisch.

 
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http://www.macalester.edu/art/rudquist.html (2010) [2013: Link ist nicht mehr ok]

Having taught painting at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. since 1958, Professor Rudquist died, November 11, 2001. His works can be found in many museums and college collections across the country, including the Weisman Museum and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A selection of his paintings and lithographs were on display December, 2001 at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Contributions to the Jerry Rudquist Memorial Fund will help sponsor visiting artists at Macalester College. Contact the Art Department, 651 696- 6279, or the Development Office, 651 696- 6068.

Jerry is shown on the left with Sun Disc the 1995 painting commissioned for the lobby of the Whitney Fine Arts Building permanently on view at Minneapolis Community College.

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Im Star Tribune, Minneapolis, November 11, 2001:

Obituary: Minneapolis artist Jerry Rudquist dies

 By Mary Abbe, Star Tribune

 Even during his last seven weeks, as tumors invaded his brain, painter Jerry Rudquist took every occasion to talk about art. One such conversation took place during a radiation treatment, and when the nurse in charge suddenly realized who her patient was, she exclaimed, "You're the guru of color!"

 Rudquist, who died Sunday at age 67, delighted in just such unexpected encounters.

A longtime professor of art at Macalester College in St. Paul, Rudquist showed his color-saturated abstractions, portraits and antiwar paintings around the world -- from Finland, Germany and Iceland to Papua New Guinea. But he remained a committed Midwesterner whose down-home wit appeared regularly at the Minnesota State Fair.

 His immense image of a smug clown-nosed Chester White hog named "Petunia" won the coveted People's Choice award at the 1997 fair. Shortly thereafter he painted "After the Fair," which showed a beautifully back-lit pork chop suspended by a cord. In the long tradition of artists who have painted hunks of meat -- from Rembrandt to Chaim Soutine in the 20th century -- Rudquist saw nourishment and decay, beauty and tragedy in that flesh.

 "He got a lot of criticism about that pork chop painting from people who thought it was insensitive, but he was just being a realist," said his daughter Monica Rudquist.

 Weisman Art Museum director Lyndel King said Rudquist exemplified a type of artist that is disappearing. "He and artists of that generation integrated themselves into the community. They didn't just critique it as younger artists often do; they participated in a quite wonderful way that is really going to be missed."

 Rudquist was born in Fargo, N.D., spent his early years in California and his adolescence in Minneapolis. He graduated from what is now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1956 and earned a master's degree in fine arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1958. He taught at Macalester from 1958 until his retirement last year.

 "Jerry was very interested in the ways people approach the human mind and body. He was a painter who examined his direct experiences the way a philosophical phenomenologist would," said Gerald Weiss, a Macalester psychology professor and longtime friend.

 Antiwar paintings.

 Connoisseurs know Rudquist best for his fierce, unrelentingly candid portraits and antiwar paintings of blasted human skulls. Begun in 1956 with an image of a howling skull in a barren field, his "Must We Always Expect War" series spanned more than 40 years of U.S. conflicts. During the Gulf War he did skulls in colors representing the landscapes and national flags of the warring nations. Among them was bleak 6-by 9-foot landscape dominated by an immense skull, its brain cavity an empty void.

 His unsparing portraits include a 1989 image of himself in sharp tones of chartreuse and yellow, his furrowed face centered with a violet eye. He rarely did commissioned portraits, preferring to paint relatives and friends whose head shapes interested him. Dismissing what he called the "social function" of portraiture, he once told the Star Tribune that "it's too much of a burden to take on the responsibility of having it look like them to themselves and their friends."

 He was the subject of a short 1997 video, "The Painted Eye," by Twin Cities artist Mike Hazard, and his work is in several collections, including the Weisman and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

 Some of his paintings and lithographs are on display now through Dec. 6 at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in New York City. In the show's catalog, Yuko Nii, the center's founding director and a former Rudquist student, praised him as a model teacher and artist who allowed his students "space to breathe, so that they could freely choose their ways to find answers."

 Besides his daughter Monica, survivors include Raquel Rudquist, his wife of 43 years; daughter Michelle Rudquist Anton; two grandchildren, and a brother, John Rudquist, all of Minneapolis.

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University of Memphis:

An important aspect of Jerry Rudquist’s career for over forty years was his anti-war images, drawings, prints and paintings focused closely on bone fragments. He was also admired as a colorist, portrait painter and composer of gentle satirical takes on contemporary life. Rudquist spent much of his life in Minneapolis where he graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1956. He earned his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before returning to teach at Macalester College.