Today in History revisits the September 9, 1965 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story about UND hosting an exhibit of Japanese abstract art collected by Dr. Roland Gibson. Continue reading for more details.
Japanese art to be shown at UND
A collection of work done by 40 contemporary Japanese artists, gathered by a former University of North Dakota faculty member, will be shown at UND Sunday through Oct. 17.
The story of the collection began in 1963, when Dr. Roland Gibson, former associate professor of economics at UND, spent two months in Japan visiting galleries and artists’ studios. In that period he brought together what has been called the most representative collection of Japanese abstract art in the United States. The exhibit includes paintings, etchings and woodblock prints.
The art in the collection represents a constant search for a mode of expression meaningful in postwar Japan. This search has caused many Japanese artists to turn to Paris and New York and to the oil medium, which is essentially unfamiliar to the Japanese.
The UND University Center Board of Governors will sponsor the showing, to be held in the University Center in one of the lobbies.
Before leaving North Dakota to assume a position on the Washington College, Chestertown, Md., economics staff, Gibson established the Gibson scholarship at UND, in memory of his mother, to assist an American Indian student each year toward a college education.
Ad in the Grand Forks Herald on September 9, 1965. Grand Forks Herald archive image.
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