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Jane Bick MuddApril 7, 2000 - June 1, 2000 |
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Biography:For the past 23 years, Jane Bick Mudd has lived on a farm east of Fulton, Missouri with her husband, Tom, and their three children. She was born and raised in St. Louis and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fontbonne College in 1976. "In the 80's Tom and I built a home from scratch, had three children, farmed and worked at various jobs. I struggled throughout that time to continue painting whenever I could." In 1994, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Missouri, Columbia.
Mudd is currently an instructor of painting and drawing at William Woods
University in Fulton. Over the past decade the major subjects for Mudd's
paintings have been the human figure and natural landscape. Her work has
been shown and won awards throughout Missouri and other states. She has
had solo and group shows in Columbia, Fulton, and St. Louis.
Artist's Statement:"After studying other books and articles, as well as the Homo erectus skeleton and skull fossils from photos, I began working out ideas first in clay, then charcoal, with the intent of constructing more elaborate compositions in oil." The result is her newest collection, A Million Years Ago featuring works in oil, charcoal and terra cotta/stone. "I am attempting to reflect visually some of Leakey's empathetic curiosities as to what the life of these early hominids was like, how it evolved, and how these conceptions can benefit man today."
"About a year ago I read a book called Origins Reconsidered by
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