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Becker Gallery & Permanent Art Collection

Information on the Becker Gallery and the permanent art collection.

Louis Mendez Art

Art bench by Mendez, stone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Mendez 

Rock Garden Bench  

1965

Hand built Stoneware

John Tenniel Art

Alice and the Royal Court

The Lithograph Information for This and The Following Pieces are as Follows:

John Tenniel, Illustrator

Watercolor Artist Unknown

Alice in Wonderland Illustrations

1961

Enlarged Lithograph on Paper, Colored Separately

Images from The Colorful Alice in Wonderland

Alice and the Caterpillar

 

Alice and the Cheshire Cat

 

Alice with Dumb and Dumber

 

The Rabbit Running Late to Tea

 

Tea Time with Alice, the Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter

 

Louis Mendez, Artist

photo of Louis Mendez

Louis Mendez: August 7, 1929 - July 27, 2012

Artist and Educator

Louis Mendez was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of Puerto Rican, Spanish and Irish heritage. He spent his early years in Spanish Harlem, where his family owned a restaurant at 108th and Madison.

Louis is best known for largely figurative ceramic sculpture inspired by a consistent aesthetic allied to both the ancient origins of cultures and a modernist treatment of forms and surfaces. His work appeals to an engaging sense of myth and an enigmatic playfulness within the context of historic ceramic styles. In his quest to capture the remnant vitality of ancient images and to interpret these forms in a highly personal idiom, he created a body of work at once decorative, evocative, and original.

Biographical extract from Louis Mendez website, Oct 10,2024

Image and biography used with permission.

John Tenniel, Artist

Lined drawing of John Tenniel

John Tenniel: February 28, 1820 (London, England)- February 25, 1914 (London, England)

Known for: Illustration, Children's literature, political cartoons

Sir John Tenniel was an English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist.

Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings remain the definitive depiction of the Alice characters, with comic book illustrator and writer Bryan Talbot stating, "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel."

Biographical extract from Wikipedia, Oct 10,2024