BMA : Friends of the Beach : Gift Prints

John “Jack” O’Shea, K-State professor emeritus of art, has been selected as the Friends of the Beach Museum of Art 2004 Gift Print Artist. O’Shea’s work will be featured in a one-person exhibition at the museum from 23 April to 13 June 2004. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, O’Shea taught at K-State from 1956 until his retirement in 1997. In addition to printmaking, he taught art history courses for the art department for many years. O’Shea studied at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1950 to 1952 and earned a B.F.A. in art education at the University of Denver in 1954. In 1956 he received an M.F.A. in printmaking from Iowa University, where he studied with Mauricio Lasansky, arguably the most influential teacher of printmaking in America during the second half of the Twentieth Century. O’Shea’s work has been exhibited in this country and abroad.

O’Shea’s etching, While Titian was mixing rose madder, is available to members at the Sponsor level or higher. The print edition will be 25.

• For more information, or to place your order, contact LaDonna Piper at (785) 532-7718.

Also see: Past Gift Prints

While Titian was mixing rose madder
by Jack O'Shea