Bruce Moore, Coy Avon Seward

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Coy Avon Seward, Bruce Moore
Coy Avon Seward, Bruce Moore
Coy Avon Seward
Bruce Moore
1929
Coy Avon Seward
1884–1939
Bruce Moore, 1929
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lithograph; laid paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 330 x 431 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 0.9921 x 16 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 408 x 500 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 1/16 x 19 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in
Credit line: Gift of Drew Elder and Carole Gardner
Accession number: 2007.0040
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman,” Feb-2010, Kate Meyer Seward depicts his friend Bruce Moore at work on a portrait bust of Seward (now in the collection of the Wichita Center for the Arts). Moore lived and worked in Wichita in the 1920s and early 1930s prior to spending the bulk of his career in the Northeast. Seward’s clever border at the bottom of the image not only reveals Moore’s name and the date rendered in Moore’s preferred Art Deco style, but also celebrates Moore’s recent commission for the design of decorative architectural details at Wichita North High School. In this portrait of mutual admiration, Seward deftly evokes the bravura gesture of the sculptor at work.

Exhibitions

C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman
Kate Meyer, curator
2010

Citations

Lee Blackledge, ed., Spencer Museum of Art Register. 7, no. 9 (2008): 176.

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas. Spencer Museum of Art Register 8, no. 2 (2011): 152.

Meyer, Kate, and Carole Gardner, Barbara Thompson, David Thompson, Saralyn Reece Hardy. C.A. Seward: Artist and Draftsman. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011.