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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Procreation: Fortune Be My Guide by Ashley Hairston Doughty, Image 5.

    Ashley Hairston Doughty

    Procreation: Fortune Be My Guide, 2019

    Paper, vinyl

    4 x 3.5 x 4 in

  2. Fools Gold #1 by Lee Cannarozzo, Image 1.

    Lee Cannarozzo

    Fools Gold #1, 2018

    Yucca Schidigera paper and 24k gold leaf

    9 x 9 x 0.25 in

  3. Untitled (Exquisite Corpse) by Collaboration, Image 1.

    Collaboration

    Untitled (Exquisite Corpse), 2013

    Mixed Media on paper

  4. Untitled (echo) by Sherin Guirguis, Image 2.

    Sherin Guirguis

    Untitled (echo), 2005

    Acrylic on masonite

    96 x 48 x 18 in

  5. No Title, No. 03.09 by David Hirschi, Image 2.

    David Hirschi

    No Title, No. 03.09, 2003

    Oil and wax on wood panel

    14.875 x 14.875 x 0.75 in

  6. Untitled by Max Pruneda, Image 1.

    Max Pruneda

    Untitled, 1992

    Mixed media sculpture

    23 x 36 x 14 in

  7. Untitled by Richard Francisco, Image 2.

    Richard Francisco

    Untitled, 1983

    Graphite and watercolor on paper

  8. Bench by David Bottini, Image 1.

    David Bottini

    Bench, 1978

    Steel, oil, pastel, varnish

    10.5 x 6 x 6 in

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About the artist

Rita Deanin Abbey

1930-2021

Abbey was raised in Passaic, New Jersey She graduated from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in 1954. In 1965 she joined the art department at the University of Southern Nevada (now UNLV) and taught there until 1987. In his book Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada (1999), the writer William L. Fox stresses her “prodigious” artistic output “in watercolor, ink, oil, acrylic, oil pastel, steel, bronze, copper, vitreous enamels, Plexiglass, fiberglass, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, mahogany,” and her debt to the basin and range landscape where she spent most of her life. “[W]here they [the works] take us is into contemplation of natural form, akin to what we feel when confronted in person by the geology of the desert.”

"A Towering Spirit" Piece by Scott Dickensheets about Rita Deanin Abbey in Double Scoop