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December 2002

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UMUC Keeps Its Contract Teaching Troops in Europe

UMUC's Excel Helps Researchers Excel

Largest Joseph Sheppard Exhibit in Maryland Opens at UMUC

Faculty Forum: The Japanese Ainu and Native Americans

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The November 17, 2002, opening of the Sheppard exhibit drew hundreds of art enthusiasts, who came to admire masterpieces like the bronze sculpture Seated Boy pictured here.

Largest Joseph Sheppard Exhibit in Maryland Opens at UMUC

Sheppard

Joseph Sheppard

Joseph Sheppard was born in Owings Mills, Maryland, in 1930. From 1948 to 1952, he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he studied with Jacques Maroger, the former technical director of the Louvre.

Sheppard is internationally acclaimed for his vibrant paintings, drawings, and sculptures. His works are in many public and private collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Butler Institute of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The artist's many books on anatomy, drawing, and paintings have been translated into French, German, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. He has been commissioned to paint portraits of President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush, Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer, Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Cardinal William Keeler, among others. Sheppard was also commissioned to create Baltimore's Holocaust Memorial sculpture in 1988.

The artist resides both in Pietrasanta, Italy, where he maintains a studio, and Baltimore.

By Andrea Martino

UMUC is currently hosting its largest art exhibition to date in the Inn and Conference Center (ICC)—which, not coincidentally, is home to the largest collection of works by Maryland artists. Joseph Sheppard is one of those artists, and it is his work that now adorns every nook and cranny of the ICC. Though Sheppard’s home is in Baltimore, Maryland, and two other exhibits are on display concurrently in Baltimore, UMUC won the bid to host the largest show.

The exhibition opened November 17, 2002, and will run through March 16, 2003. It comprises 20 paintings and portraits, 13 drawings, and 11 sculptures, and covers Sheppard’s 50-year career as an artist.

"Over the past 50 years I have painted and sold nearly 2,000 paintings," said Sheppard. "I think perhaps out of those there were 20 that had special meaning to me as far as subject and composition. . . . These [are displayed] at UMUC."

In addition to UMUC, portions of the traveling exhibition are on display at The Walters Art Museum and the Evergreen House, at Johns Hopkins University, and on the artist's Web site.

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