Crayons, Neil S. Winokur

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Crayons, Neil S. Winokur
Crayons, Neil S. Winokur
Neil S. Winokur
Crayons
1994
Neil S. Winokur, artist
born 1945
Crayons, 1994
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: silver-dye bleach print (Ilfochrome™)
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 280 x 355 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 x 14 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 11 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 2 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase: Terry and Sam Evans Fund
Accession number: 1995.0071
On display: Brosseau Learning Center
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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2025–26 KU Common Book

I have an intense visceral response to the smell of a freshly opened box of crayons. It’s a very unique scent that instantly brings back memories of youthful drawing, coloring, and art making. To many people of my generation, crayons are one of the first things held in tiny hands, scrawling bright colors across a piece of paper. A tiny masterpiece that is proudly displayed on the most important gallery wall in the world, the front of the refrigerator. Each color is an exploration of the world. The larger the box, the more expansive that single piece of paper could become. Cerulean seas, fields of lavender, bright yellows and oranges of the sun. With crayons, we first learn to truly look at and appreciate the world in which we live.

Scott Barber gives a freshly opened box of crayons five stars.

Exhibitions

Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres
Rachel Epp Buller, curator
2000
Contemporary Art
2003
Modernisms: Late/Post
Deborah J. Wilk, curator
1997
Recent Acquisitions in Works on Paper
Stephen Goddard, curator
John Pultz, curator
1996
Art for Ava
Kate Meyer, curator
2020
Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2025–26 KU Common Book
Scott Barber, curator
Wyatt Haywood, curator
Suzanne Huffman, curator
Ellen Joo, curator
Luke Jordan, curator
Arial Kim, curator
Doug Bergstrom, curator
Susan Earle, curator
Sofía Galarza Liu, curator
Kevin Liu, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Cara Nordengren, curator
Hana Rose North, curator
Liz Pfeiffer, curator
Sydney Pursel, curator
Rachel Straughn-Navarro, curator
Eli Troen, curator
Maggie Vaughn, curator