Artist: John Henry Rock ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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John Henry Rock Reclining Figure Color lithograph 1963
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George Henry Durrie - East Rock, New Haven 1862 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Fitz Henry Lane - Becalmed off Halfway Rock 1860 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John La Farge, American, 1835-1910 Hanging Rock, Newport 1865 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Gift
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John Ferguson Weir - East Rock, New Haven c. 1901 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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The Vase, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Figure, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Models, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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The Shawl, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Reclining Figure, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Interior, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962-1963, Lithograph
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Henry Hamilton Bennett - Lane Rock with Canoe, Wisconsin Dells 1880-1890 albumen print Milwaukee Art Museum American
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Reclining Figure #2, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Glacial Strata, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Landscape, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962-1963, Lithograph
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Landscape with Rain, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Julius John Pommer Arrow Rock etching 19th - 20th century
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Julius John Pommer Sentinel Rock Etching 19th - 20th century
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Julius John Pommer Arrow Rock Etching 19th - 20th century
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John Frederick Kensett - Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor 1857 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gently a Summer Breeze, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Julius John Pommer Hammer Head Rock Aquatint 19th - 20th century
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Fortified Rock, William Henry Jackson (United States, 1843 - 1942) , circa 1870s, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Untitled, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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William Henry San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Squiggly Trinity," Bo Diddley; Lee Michaels; Avalon Ballroom, 11/17-19/67 lithograph 1967
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John Friederick Kensett - Marine View of Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor 1864 Oil on canvas The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens American
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Sunset Rock, paysage en Amérique (1er quart 20e siècle) by HAMMER John Johann
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Woman in the Wind, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Woman in the Wind, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Michael Bergt Rock 'n' Wave graphite 1981
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Hanging Rock, the Narrows, Canon Creek, Colorado, William Henry Jackson (United States, 1843 - 1942) , circa 1870s, Gelatin-silver print
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Peter Blume - The Rock 1944-48 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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John B. Neagle William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth) oil on canvas 1834
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David Singer San Francisco Rock Poster: Bill Graham Presents, The Kinks; Elton John; 11/12-15/70 color lithograph 1970
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Red Rock Repeat, Torrey, Utah, John Pfahl (United States, New York, New York City, born 1939-2-17) , 1977, Dye-imbibition print
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Cup, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Cup, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Owl, John Rock (born 1919) , 1965, Lithograph
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Owl, John Rock (born 1919) , 1965, Lithograph
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Pink Rock Rectangle, Lewiston, New York, John Pfahl (United States, New York, New York City, born 1939-2-17) , 1975, Dye-imbibition print
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John Gould Rock Martin - Hirundi rupestris lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Henry Somerset, First 18th - 19th century
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Head, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Head, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Combat, John Rock (born 1919) , 1965, Lithograph
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Outlined Bouders, Red Rock Canyon, California, John Pfahl (United States, New York, New York City, born 1939-2-17) , 1976, Dye-imbibition print
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Caracalla, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Caligula, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Agrippa, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Four Models, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Titus, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Four Models II, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Hadrian, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Four Models II, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Agrippa, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Four Models, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Untitled, John Rock (born 1919) , 1962, Lithograph
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Caracalla, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph
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Caligula, John Rock (born 1919) , 1963, Lithograph

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Who Shot Rock and Roll : A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present
The exhibition is in six sections: rare and revealing images taken behind the scenes; tender snapshots of young musicians at the beginnings of their careers; exhilarating photographs of live performances that display the energy, passion, style, an...
FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL CENTER: The Sixties and The Rock Poster: New Exhibition Celebrating the Sixties
These artists were given almost complete artistic freedom, and thus, the posters were liberated from the usual restrictions related to their advertising function. Originally intended merely as inexpensive promotional devices, rock posters ev...
San Diego Museum of Art: High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters from Haight-Ashbury, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Cabarets of Montmartre, Japanese Woodblock Prints and the Floating World of Edo
Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art, High Societies is an unprecedented collaboration among three of the Museum’s curatorial departments: American art, European art, and Asian art. According to the Museum’s executive director Don Bacigalupi, ...
Morley Gallery: Tokyo GlamRock: Art and Rock Featuring GORGEROUS Rock Band from Tokyo
These ruptures become more marked when they are enacted in artistic practice. Tensions emerge within the performative aspects of the work: the acting out by artists of fractured identities in relation to the normative discourses which they par...
PDX Contemporary Art: Nancy Lorenz: Rock Garden
Nancy Lorenz lived in Japan in her teens, received her MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. Lorenz has received major commissions including a 75-foot painting for the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hilton, among ...
Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center: Barry Markowitz: New Work
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Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum: Call to Artists: 31st Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition
The entry fee is$10 per entry. Submit slides and entry fee to: Toys Designed by Artists,
PO Box 2137,
Little Rock, AR 72203 or contact Leslie Schoultz at lgarrett@arkarts.com for a complete prospectus....
Atlantis Found Publishing Inc.: Call for Artists: Rock Meets Academia in International Concept Album Art Competition
The public will select the winners by voting online at the contest website. The "WORDS WITHOUT VOICES" series combines Art, Music, Language, and Internet Technology, and will be aimed toward the youth market, especially college art instructo...
Bartley Nees Project: Trunk Rock: A New Installation by Terry Urbahn
Terry Urbahn has exhibited with the Bartley Nees Gallery since 1994 including memorable exhibitions such as Urban Museum Reality Service (1997), saLOON (1999) and most recently a collaborative installation with Sean Kerr SHOWDOWN in 2000. His w...
Oval Artist Management and Gallery: Call to Artists: First Anniversary Juried Exhibition
Oval opened on Sept. 24, 2004, with a juried exhibition of Arkansas artists, which was seen by more than 1,000 visitors. In the first year, Oval has shown artwork by more than 120 artists from across Arkansas and around the world. Oval recen...
Memphis Brooks Museum: Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
Linda McCartney's Sixties is the first museum exhibition of her work in the United States since her death in April 1998. It is also the first time that a compelling selection of her photographs of twentieth century rock and roll icons is going...
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico: Rhythm Nation: Work by Edra Soto
The stationary bike exerciser figures into a certain compulsive-obsessive category, asking how fixated our society is with the idea of becoming perfect specimens willing to race like hamsters on a bicycle going nowhere, or possibly consider sur...
A Ramona Studio: HIlary Lorenz: Garden of Auspicious Rocks
The containers in which the colorful rock sculptures move and shimmer are tissue culture flasks used to grow cells in medical laboratories. Lorenz's artful rock gardens reflect her desire to "culture and grow [her] own creations."
Cafe Gallery Project: Destiny Manifest Eden's End: Cathy Ward and Eric Wright
Manifest destiny was a term first expressed by John L. O'Sullivan and used to describe the belief of the 1840's in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States: .... and that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to over spr...
Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum: Drawn from My Soul: The Art of J. Michael Walker
The idea is to modernize the highly respected images and themes of the Virgin Mary, says Walker. This series of works grew out of my immersion into Mexican rural, lower-class cult...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Philip Brophy: Fluorescent
His performance portrays a transmogrified sexual monster, roaming and prancing across a videosonic platform, energized by a pulsating 'fat' sound seething with a hunger for the bright, the shiny and the loud. The Gallery's contemporary proje...
g-module: Ken Weaver - Hillbilly Hardcore : Profonde Amerique
Ken Weaver spent his first decade in New York creating theatre and performance art, now being utilized in his works by staging friends and actors to recreate the characters from his rural/suburban past. It is the artist's belief that through a...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Far Out: Bay Area Design, 1967 - 73
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Marsi Gallery: The Rock Legend to The Heart of Sea: Paintings and Drawings by Pansa Sunavee
The artist, actually for this work, has tried to discover the graceful nature impresses on his consciousness and subconscious in the works, with liberating and deep meditation in mind. Without planning, disposition and the least in thinking, to e...
FOUR: Borderline: Paul McKinley, Robert Carr and Sufjan Stephens.
Robert's work to date has involved making objects from elemental building blocks, structured by a geometrical logic. He has focused his work on the use of visual rhythms, patterns and symmetries, on the effects of scale on perception, and on ...
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Noguchi's Beginnings (1985)
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Oval Artist Management and Gallery: Oval Artists: Selection of New Works
Gary Bolyer is a New York City based landscape artist who will be one of about twenty represented by the gallery. His style reflects his early influences, especially his formative years growing up in a rural area of northwest Louisiana, and his...
National Museum of African Art: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
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Linda Warren Gallery: Alex O'Neal
Working in the vein of Southern Gothic, O’Neal puts ostracized individuals, superstars, and superheroes center stage in his narratives to address a cacophony of ideas surrounding disguise, dysfunction, secrecy, anarchy, community, religious fervo...
Orange County Museum of Art: A Tale of Two Cities: Chris Burden
Each city is protected by natural rock formations. Behind each city is a large collection of houseplants representing the jungle. On view in the Installation Gallery of the main museum building in Newport Beach. IMAGE:
Chris...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Wild Choir: Cinematic Portraits by Jeremy Blake
Blake's (1971–2007) lush digital videos combine representational and abstract imagery in the service of visual narratives that are dreamy, historical, and richly psychological. Renowned for his shimmering, hallucinogenic “moving paintings,” which...
Jancar Jones Gallery: Virginia Holt: Paintings from the Mid-60s
Born in Pittsburgh in 1915, Virginia Holt moved to Pasadena in 1925. In 1960 she enrolled at Pasadena Community College, later transferring to Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles....
California African American Museum: Rhythms of the Soul: African Instruments in the Diaspora
The three Los Angeles venues will launch simultaneous exhibitions canvassing more than 32 musical traditions in Africa, North and South America, serving as focal points for a citywide celebration honoring the monumental contribu...
Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green: Henry Moore: Imaginary Landscapes
Moore combined two of his enduring fascinations, the human figure and the landscape perfectly illustrating his comments that ‘knees and breasts are mountains’. Woman 1957-58 and Reclining Figure: Hand 1979 relate the female form to undulating hill...
Menil Collection: Yves Tanguy Retrospective
Tanguy succeeded, more than any other Surrealist painter, in creating a tangible but inexplicable reality of the unreal atmospher...
Kröller-Müller Museum: Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000
This most comprehensive Dan Graham retrospective hitherto presents a wide range of his rich and surprising output. Approximately sixty works will reflect every facet of his oeuvre: phot...
HGTV / Weller/Grossman Productions: Calling All Indie-Crafters
To be considered, send a videotape showing us your cool craft, tell us a little bit about your creative process, and how you got started. Send the tape (3-5 minutes) & a sample of your of one-of-a-kind creation, by January 31, 2004 to: ...
Haus der Kunst: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
A newspaper photograph of the destruction of the towers of the World Trade Center reminded her of Peter Brueghel’s The Tower of Babel (1563) and provided the starting point for these drawings. In her book of poems Babel, published in 1978, she ...
Gallery Ophelia: Eva Armisen : new paintings
Eva Armisén's paintings and drawings are figurative, whimsical and expressive glimpses into the every day lives of her subjects. Her works create a visual language that captures the pleasures of every day life. Armisén's work explo...
Corporación Cultural de Las Condes: Sabattier Revisited by Bolivian Photographer Gonzalo Contreras
Also during the same month, Gonzalo’s work with additional images will be exhibited at ArsLatino Gallery on the commercial district of Santiago. (http://www.tacomal.com/index.php?view=foto) Following is an introduction made by the photograph...
Contemporary Arts Center: Views of the Garden: Jacci Den Hartog
Den Hartog builds topographies that she feels capture the fl...
DELUXE-ARTS Gallery and Creative Space: The Jokes on Us
The show, which opens with Rosie Coopers renowned Oscar acceptance speech, promises an eclectic mix of style and medium, from sound and video installations to performance events, combining in joyful celebration of the daft and obscure. Visual il...
Andy Warhol Museum: Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith
"Like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith isn't an artist who is easily categorized. She moves fluidly through the genres of music, visual art, and language," says John Smith, exhibition curator and archivist at The Warhol. "Her work and her career defy t...
Kröller-Müller Museum: Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000

Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: STAR STRUCK: 1,000 YEARS OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ASTRONOMY
Also featured are items on loan from several other institutions, such as an authentic moon rock from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), medieval manuscripts from the J. Paul Getty Museum, dramatic photographs of deep space...

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