Saturday, February 29, 2020

Francis Quirk brings Raphael Soyer Artwork to Lehigh

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We continue our stream of posts about artists who were helped by Francis Quirk by looking at Raphael Soyer. His work was part of a 1970 exh...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

More on William "Lone Star" Dietz

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After our initial post on William "Lone Star" Dietz , we subsequently found a very well written and researched piece about him by...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Joe Brown Boxer/Sculptor/Playground Equipment Designer/Princeton Professor

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While we tend to think of Quirk as a painter, he also had an interest in sculpture as shown by his purchase of various pieces for Lehigh Un...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

New Francis Quirk Portrait Comes to Light Pastel of Edward Quirk

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Through a relative of Professor Quirk, we have received an image of a pastel portrait of Francis' older brother Edward. The portrait w...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Francis Quirk and the Strange Case of Football Figure/Artist William “Lone Star” Dietz

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This post continues our series on artists supported by Quirk through exhibitions at the Lehigh University Art Galleries, we explore the str...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Francis Quirk Develops Smithsonian Loan Relationship for Lehigh University

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In previous posts we had highlighted Francis Quirk's efforts to expand the visual arts at Lehigh University. He expanded the Art Galler...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Quirk Traffic Exploding! Is a work coming up for auction?

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We have been experiencing sizable spikes in traffic to the blog in the past month.  Given that we have posted relatively little during this...