OHRA 1980

The Prisoner

Art: 1980
Media: ink, watercolor, etching, linoleum block
Size: paper size 36 INCHES H X 24 W; framed size slightly larger

Collection:
Thompson Reuters West, St. Paul. Formerly West Publishing Company, a law book publisher

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Exhibits: West ’80 / Art & the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul. Sponsored by West Publishing Co. St. Paul.
Selected works from the West ’80 show, including The Prisoner,  toured the US and Canada, 1981-82.

Bibliography:
1980: American (ABA) Bar Association Journal, Chicago, color reproduction, July issue.

1980: West ’80 / Art & the Law exhibit catalog, pub. by the Minnesota Museum of Art & West Pub. Co.. St. Paul.
1986: The West Collection, a coffee-table art book published by West, 1986. (West is now Thompson Reuters West).

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The West ' 80 /Art & The Law show (including The Prisoner & The Law is the Eyes) was exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of Art, 1980. The Prisoner toured the US in 1981 in a West sponsored traveling exhibit.
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In 1982 West published offset lithos of The Prisoner. Segan donated a framed copy to the Law Library, Univ. of Washington, Seattle; and to the Jefferson Expansion National Historic Site, St Louis. The offset litho at the UW law library is on display in the library.

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I did this work my last year of graduate art studies, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. The lino block printed in the imagery is the 1974 Tom Mooney linocut portrait.

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The juror for the West '80 exhibit was the late American social justice and satirist painter Jack Levine (1915-2010).

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The West / Art & the Law exhibits and The West Collection were the inspiration of the late West vice-president, Gerard L. Cafesjian (1925-2013). Among Mr. Cafesjian's last projects was his creating the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, Armenia, which opened in 2009 and has had over one million visitors since.  His project to create The Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial in Washington, D.C. remained unrealized and in litigation at the time of his death.

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Two videos of the offset litho, posted by Segan on Youtube:

Prof. James Davis on The Prisoner, 1980 art by A.K. Segan, filmed Mar 8 '14 © (6 min., 5 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxZGjMCF3Ig

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Artist A K Segan on background to The Prisoner, 1980 West Art & Law purchase winner (3 min., 18 sec):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsW51aYG8wI