Selby Gallery I: Treasures from the Frederic Remington Art Museum
Selby Gallery II: Southern Graphics Council International Exhibition

Gallery I: A traveling exhibition of work from the Frederic Remington Art Museum featuring 28 original works of art by the iconoclastic Remington—including bronzes, paintings and drawings. An exhibition of art from the Frederic Remington Museum of Art, Ogdensburg, New York.

Gallery II: This traveling exhibition is comprised of 39 prints by members of the Southern Graphics Council International (SGC International) demonstrating a variety of images and print processes.

[FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)]
Remington made his name as an illustrator, mostly of western and military subjects, for most of the widely circulated magazines of the late 1880s and 1890s. Among the magazines he illustrated were Harper’s Weekly, Harper’s Monthly, Century, Collier’s, Outing, Boys’ Life, and Cosmopolitan. He remains most closely associated with depictions of the old West. He created most of the art for reproduction in books and magazines using black and white media: pen and ink, ink wash and gouache, and black and white oil. In 1895 Remington began to make sculptures, producing 22 different subjects.

[FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM]
The mission of the Frederic Remington Art Museum is to collect, exhibit, preserve and interpret the art and archives of Frederic Remington. We foster an appreciation for and understanding of the artist by educating our audience in the visual arts, providing a context for Remington's art and times, and offering hands-on opportunities to individuals of all age groups. The Frederic Remington Art Museum, located in Ogdensburg, New York, houses a comprehensive collection of original Remington paintings, sketches and sculptures, as well as a broad array of personal effects and correspondence that serve to bring the artist and his vision to life.

[SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL]
The SGCI is the largest print organization in North America with over 500 members. The organization fosters dialogue about prints and print education through an annual conference held each spring, the publication of a quarterly newsletter, and the coordination of traveling exhibitions. In 1972 Boyd Saunders, from the University of South Carolina, invited every printmaker he knew in the South to meet at the annual convention of the Southeastern College Art Conference with the intention of forming a printmaker’s organization. First known as the Southeastern Graphics Council, then the Southern Graphics Council, membership is now national and international. In 2010, the name was changed to its current SGC International. In addition, SGCI encourages print collecting and print connoisseurship, and shares safety, technical, and commercial information concerning print and printed media. The print collection and archives are an independent body that operates a facility to accession and catalog donated prints to its collection. The purpose of the archives is to maintain a record of the SGC International and document the continued development of printmaking.

[OPENING RECEPTION]
Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, 5–7 p.m.
[CURATOR TALK]
TBA

Driving directions to Selby Gallery I and II Exhibits

Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art + Design
2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234