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Baren Digest              Monday, 8 November 1999      Volume 09 : Number 772

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From: Gayle Wohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 08:57:21 -0500
Subject: [Baren 6522] Re: Baren Digest V9 #771 

James' idea for Exchange 5 seems like a good one.  We can
work and home and still have continuity that would come
if working together.  I vote for this one!

Gayle

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From: Elizabeth Atwood <elizuno@midcoast.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:42:35 -0500
Subject: [Baren 6523] Exchange theme 

I second Graham's vote...... on James' suggestion for a common subject for
all to interpret in Exchange #5. Sounds like a fun
challenge!...........ElizA

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From: Pedrobot@aol.com
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:58:30 EST
Subject: [Baren 6524] Re: Exchange theme 

Works for me.  I think that would provide some really exciting results.  
Count me in.

- --Pete

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From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:54:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Baren 6527] Print Fair 

Jack, thanks for continually bringing us back to an understanding of basic
materials! So important that we often overlook it.

I wanted to quickly report that Judy and I saw an enormous amount of hanga
woodcut today. Arthur Dow and many prints by American artists, (Helen Hyde
etc.) from the teens and twenties. Gustave Bauman, whose work looks hanga,
but I think is oil base. And the famous Matt Brown was well represented!

Sorry my memory for names is so hopeless, but Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai
and lots of Hiroshige were there, and whole packages of Japanese prints to
flip through. Love those packs of shunga! But my favorites, some deeply
colored shunga with lots of bright kimono patterns swirling around the
essential stuff, were over my price range, at $800 to $1200. My other
favorite was a Kunisada war scene triptich with a huge snake writhing over
the head of the warriors. A bargain at $1600, but beyond my means.

I did find the cheapest one in the lot to my taste, and picked up a nice
meiji fish print by Kyosai (?). It is not valuable, but a livley design, a
fish glancing to the side, with some long-legged shrimp and a turnip. I
just can't believe these wonderful things are for sale!

April Vollmer

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