EXHIBIT SERVICE

AFFORDABLE EXHIBITIONS FOR SMALL MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Welcome to
Everett Spruill ~ Fine Art Exhibition Service

Everett Spruill Fine Art (ES/FA) developed this Traveling Exhibition Service to make the private collection and works by Everett Spruill accessible to a wider audience.

Designed to provide affordable exhibitions for small museums and organizations, the service offers exhibitions representing a variety of works from the Spruill Collection and of course includes the collages, graphics and paintings of Everett Spruill..

The rental fee charged for each exhibition reflects administrative and development costs, publicity kits, and educational materials. The fee covers an initial booking period of up to four weeks; additional one-week booking periods are available at a prorated fee. Rental fees must be paid three weeks prior to the beginning of the booking period.

Rush Contract Surcharge: Bookings made within 30 days of an exhibition's opening date may be assessed a surcharge of up to 20% of the total rental fee. The rate of surcharge will be dependent on size and complexity of the exhibit.

ES/FA staff members travel with and install the exhibition unless otherwise specified in original agreement. Otherwise, sponsoring institutions must provide persons to unpack, install, and re-pack the exhibition. Unless specified, hanging structures or other exhibit furniture are not provided with the exhibition.

For out of state traveling exhibits the sponsoring institution is responsible for transporting the exhibition from and returning it to ES/FA. A two-week period is allowed on each side of the scheduled exhibition dates for shipping/pick-up and return.

Wall-to-wall insurance covering the exhibition during shipping to and from the sponsoring institution as well as during the exhibition period is required for all exhibitions. Sponsors are requested to forward a certificate of insurance to the ES/FA coordinator at least three weeks before the exhibition opens.

Catalogs and other resale merchandise, films, and lectures are available for some exhibitions. Resale merchandise is available at 25% wholesale discount on consignment; films and lectures require a modest service fee.

Sponsoring institutions are required to credit Everett Spruill Fine Art and any specified funding agencies in all promotional materials generated for the exhibition.

Institutions interested in hosting a ES/FA exhibition should contact:

Exhibitions Service

Everett Spruill Fine Art

7927 Village Green Road

Orlando, FL 32818

407-292-3183

407-754-6133

e-mail: everettspruill@bellsouth.net

Charles Cobelle (1902-1994) is famous for his
ebullient, lighter than air Paris fantasy paintings
in his patented electric colors.
Charles Cobelle (born Carl Edelman) lived and
painted in Paris until the late 1920's when he
moved to the United States. In addition to his
studies at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris,
Cobelle studied privately with Marc Chagall
and apprenticed in the studio of Raul Dufy in
Menton on the Riviera. Cobelle was one of
the last links to the great tradition of the Open
Line School of Paris. Throughout his long
and prosperous career, Cobelle painted
his favorite subjects; Paris street scenes,
racetracks, ragattas and casinos.
In his bustling world, there were no
unpleasant images. The world he depicted
in his vibrantly colored mixed media canvases
and watercolors belongs as much to the artist's
imagination as to his powers of direct observation.

Yaacov Agam has left an indelible imprint
on the course of history in the 20th century
with his creations of kinetic and constantly
changing art. The pioneer of the kinetic art
movement, Agam is wholly dedicated to art
in movement by integrating the fourth dimension
of time as a factor in his art. His interactive
works have impressed audiences of various
nationalities, ages, and walks of life. His
monumental sculptures and fountains are
installed all over the world.
Born to an Orthodox Jewish family,
Agam studied st the Bezalel Academy
of Art in Jerusalem, and then in Zurich,
Switzerland. He attended classes with
Johannes I tten wt the Kunstgeverbeschule
and also with Prof. Siegfried Giedion at the
Universoty there. He is also very active in
the field of visual education and has written
a series of books on visual language for use in schools.
Agam has expanded the graphic arts
beyond the limit of static images. Agamographs,
named after its creator, are composition
in which images change constantly. The images
appear and disappear; the viewer never
sees the whole picture at one time. With
the creation of the Agamograph, Agam conveys
the dimension of time, the fourth dimension.
Agam has advanced, renewed, revolutionized
and expanded the graphic art form. The
Agamograph enables the viewer to interact,
explore and stretch his own view in the artwork.

Print 10" x 12"
Frame 18.5" x 20"
Lithograph in color on Arches paper.
Signed in pencil, numbered.
From the regular edition of 252.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976),
whose illustrious career spanned much
of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and
influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family
of celebrated, though more classically trained artists,
Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly
change the course of modern art.
He began by developing a new method of sculpting:
by bending and twisting wire, he essentially "drew"
three-dimensional figures in space. He is
renowned for the invention of the mobile,
whose suspended, abstract elements move and balance
in changing harmony. Calder also devoted himself to making
outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheet steel.
Today, these stately titans grace public plazas in cities
throughout the world.

"Stables" c. 1970
Image 12" x 16"
Frame 19" x 23"
Lithograph in color on Arches Paper.
Signed in pencil, "EA" artist's proof.

Welcome to my collection of African tribal art featuring a variety of ethnic groups. Items on display include wooden and bronze statues, masks, religious, ritual and domestic objects. Learn about the art, culture and history of each ethnic group.

"Dan" masks are characterized by a concave face, a protruding mouth, high-domed forehead and are often covered in a rich brown patina. There are a variety of Dan face masks, each of which has a different function. They may be the intermediaries, who acts between the village and the forest initiation camp, for peace-making ceremonies, for entertainment. Over time the ceremonial masks have lost their original function and are used in contexts related to entertainment, emerging only for festivals or events organized for visitors. Nonetheless, the great masks live on, they're even more rare because many do not survive the rigors of tribal life. The life span of a museum quality artifact such as the one above is shortlived, many are broken after being dropped or environmental factors like termites or other wood eating bugs.

For more info on Dan Masks click here.

FANG - ANCESTOR SCULPTURE

The statuary of the Fang Tribe can be classified into three main groups: heads on long necks, half-figures and full figures, standing or seated. Carved with great simplicity, at the same time they exhibit a high degree of sophistication in the coordination of bulging forms. The neck is often a massive cylindrical form. The arms have various positions: hands clasped in front of the body (sometimes holding an object); held in front of the chest or attached to it; hands resting on the knees in the seated figures. The navel is often exaggerated into a cylindrical form. Legs are short, stunted. Usually there is a domed, wide forehead and the eyebrows often form arcs with the nose. The eyes are often made of metal roundlets. The sculpture (bieri) would be consulted when the village was to change location, when a new crop was planted, during a palaver, or before going hunting, fishing, or to war.

For more info on the Fang People click here.

"SENUFO" - West Africa

Several types of mask are used by the Senufo people depending upon the occasion such as rites of pasage for boys and girls, marriage and childbirth. The kpelie, a human face with projections all around, is said to remind initiates of human imperfection. Danced by men, these masks perform as female characters. Animal-head masks usually combine characteristics of several creatures--hyena, warthog, and antelope. A type of animal mask called waniugo has a cup for a magical substance on top; these masks blow sparks from their muzzles in a nighttime ritual protecting the village from sorcerers.

For more info on The Senufo People click here.