Featured artists include:
Penelope Jencks. This unique, terracotta sculpture, c 1970, was exhibited at Boston University in the artist's retrospective "Penelope Jenks" (March 4 - April 2, 2006).
Jencks is an American sculptor and a graduate of BU. Her public works include a statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on Com. Ave. in Boston and the Robert Frost Sculpture at Amherst College.
Philip Pearlstein, Girl on Empire Sofa, lithograph. Pearlstein "an artist whose coolly observed nudes, reclaimed the naked human body for painting, and found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait genre..." - New York Times
Reginald Marsh's Dance Marathon, c 1931. Marsh did not plan to be a painter, and after graduation from Yale in 1920, he moved to New York to become an illustrator. He got a job doing cartoon reviews of vaudeville and burlesque shows for the New York Daily News and in 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, Marsh was one of its original contributors.
Spotted-Tail, Sioux by Leonard Baskin, American, 1922-2000, 1993. Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world", often featuring the work of celebrated poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold, stark, energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints.