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Renowned artist Rosamond Purcell speaks at Carlson Library 

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:00pm

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Please join the Department of Art and the Friends of the Library in welcoming the extraordinary, internationally known photographer and author, Rosamond Purcell at her lecture to be given at noon on Thursday, February 28, in the Carlson Library on the University of Toledo’s Bancroft campus.

 

Rosamond Purcell has written or illustrated 17 books, including two books with Stephen Jay Gould.  She is known for her photographic documentation of natural history collections housed in such far-flung places as the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.  In addition, Ms. Purcell has had more than 50 solo exhibitions of her photography including: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (1984); the Field Museum, Chicago (1988); Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1990; the Cleveland Museum of Art (1995); and, fall 2012 as part of Very Like a Whale:  Seeming is Believing in Shakespeare, exhibition by Rosamond Purcell and Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

 

This event is free and open to the public.  Reception with refreshments will immediately follow the lecture.

 

Date/Time:  Thursday, February 28^th at 12:00 noon

Place: Canaday Center for Special Collections, 5^th floor, Carlson Library

University of Toledo, Bancroft campus

 

For further information please contact:  Barbara Miner at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 419.530.8315, or David Remaklus at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 419.530.4030

Location Carlson Library, University of Toledo Bancroft Campus
Contact Barbara Miner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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