2003

CONTENTS

Reed physics department recognized for achievements

Jean Delord, 1920–2002

Ellen Knowlton Johnson ’39 dies

Natalie Balakshin Dodge dies at 97

 

Reed receives grant to develop mathematical models of epidemics

Faculty news

Reed fencers cross swords in annual tournament

Political scientists bring eminent speakers to campus


REED IN A WHODUNIT

Reed College has made another appearance in contemporary literature, this time in a detective novel. Author James Lee Burke has the fictional daughter of one of his characters going to Reed College in his 2002 book Jolie Blon’s Bounce. This fictional character joins a friend of TV’s Meadow Soprano in fictional attendance at Reed, seen as an excellent college by both fictional and real participants.


Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled
 
Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, 1965 Courtesy of Washington Art Consortium, Virginia Wright Fund  
COOLEY GALLERY SHOW HIGHLIGHTS AMERICAN ART ON PAPER

Works on Paper: American Art 1945–1975, on display at the Cooley Gallery last fall, featured paintings, prints, and drawings on paper, primarily from the Washington Art Consortium Collection, by some of the most recognized artists of the twentieth century. Artists included Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works produced by the artists highlighted in Works on Paper were seminal in the dialogue about modernism. On opening night noted art historian Leo Steinberg discussed “The Mute Image and the Meddling Text” in a lecture sponsored by the Stephen Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Program in the Visual Arts. Steinberg has lectured widely on 20th-century art and published numerous books, including most recently Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper (2001).

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