[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]

The horizontally arranged artwork depicts a silhouette of a city skyline. In the foreground appears soft pink texture in arch design and a grid ladder pattern appears at the left edge.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]

The horizontally arranged artwork consists of textured paper in a blue-green that gradates to a pink color and moves from the foreground to the background in a curving motion. Angular brown lines are in the background and the middle ground consists of pink colors. Some white cloud like forms float through the picture plane and a gray stacked shape fills the left side of the picture.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]

The horizontally arranged artwork consists of silhouettes of mountains in the distance in various pale shades of gray. In the foreground are two curved shapes consisting of parallel lines of textured pink paper. Three lines geometric in shape move through the picture plane flattening while also creating more space.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed silk]

The artwork depicts a horizontally situated composition and is reinforced on the left and top sides by a wide gray gradated border. Emerging from the bottom edge is a wide, green curve that recedes into the distance. At the right is an open grid shape and behind that a large pink textured circle. Two small cloud like shapes float in the background.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork made of handmade paper on silk]

The horizontally arranged work consists of perspective lines receding into the distance. Halfway into the distance the receding lines are covered in blue soft textured handmade paper fibers. The floor of the space is checkerboard pattern and also recedes into distance. A brown ribbon type images also slither into the distance.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork of handmade paper on silk satin]

The long horizontal artwork depicts geometric shaped borders floating through the structured space. Loose ribbon shapes float among and between the geometric shapes. The colors are muted in blue, brown, green and pink tones.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[artwork of screen printed silk and handmade paper]

The horizontally arranged artwork depicts various grids floating and moving in space to create depth. In the background is a large semi-circular shape in a textured blue green color. There is also a wide strip of brown that begins in the far lower right corner and moves at four different angles until it reaches the left side of the picture.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bandana

The ceramic sculptural piece consists of several geometric tubular shapes decorated with various colors and textures. The piece is vertical and almost appears to be walking.
Date: 1983
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Big Heat

The black and white painting depicts a version of a famous scene in the movie The Big Heat from 1953 directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford. The brushstrokes are loose. One man holds a gun on a second wounded man. The man in the right foreground reaches out to the man in the center who leans against the wall.
Date: 1984
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Blue Bayou

An earthenware platter sits atop a shiny textured black base and blue and orange geometric shapes. The grooved dark portion of the base is shiny while the orange shape is textured and the blue shape is decorated with a dot pattern.
Date: 1989
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brooch

The silver and copper brooch is a triangular shape with a triangular shaped opening inside which is a coiled piece of metal with a second coil on one of the corners of the brooch. The surface is shiny and smooth.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cain and Abel

This large colorful painting depicts the brothers, Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The story of these brothers is also found in the Quran. The painting consists of many bright colors in flat fields with black lines and outlines. The shepherd brother is in the background herding sheep and in the foreground is the second brother holding a large club and peering over his left shoulder.
Date: 1989
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Canyon No. 2

The work depicts space in a canyon like fashion. Irregular shapes run through the work and from the edges are dropped perpendicularly gradated lines that create form and space. The illusion of space is also created by the gradations from white to pink to purple.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chitter Chatter, It's Girls' Night Out: Seven Years Series

The collage consists of purples, yellows, reds, and blue-green. A large black and yellow checkerboard pattern predominates the right half of the piece. The background is purple with some vertical poles in a blue turquoise color. Some long pink shapes encircle the checkerboard area and divide the composition.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Clouds That Sail Across the Sea

The artwork depicts some cloud like or wave like shapes in the foreground floating into the distance. The ground is depicted in a series of gradated stripes of dark purples and blues, also receding into the distance.
Date: 1981~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Color of Money

In this horizontally oriented painting, two men, in the foreground, are recognizable depictions of Paul Newman and Tom Cruise from the movie titled The Color of Money. In the background, a car and a woman are seen on the right side of the picture. The older man has his arm around the shoulder of the younger man and is holding a roll of money in front of the face of the younger man. The background is a light bright green color. The young man wears a pink and purple plaid shirt and blue jacket. The older man wears a green coat and has gray hair.
Date: 1986
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Daybreak

The horizontally placed artwork depicts a rectangular frame shape floating in the upper portion of the image. Receding into the distance are parallel horizontal lines created from textured paper in blues and browns. A vertical ladder shape is in the middle ground next to some silhouette gray geometric shapes reminiscent of buildings.
Date: 1985~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[detail view of frames, clouds, ladder, and wavy canyons]

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Date: 1986
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do Ya Wanna Dance?

The foreground is pink and the sky a darker pinkish red. In the foreground is a green table like form and leading to it is a pink and purple striped pathway leading from a blue platform. A yellow and orange cordial glass appears to be dancing with a purple cordial glass. These forms can be seen in this artist's three-dimensional works. Here the glasses appear particularly active. Three green cordial glass shapes are placed on the blue platform and one on the striped walkway. Several small geometric shapes float in the upper right portion of the artwork.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Double Red Vase

The vertically oriented sculpture consists of a red-orange textured geometric shape that twists and out of which emerges and wraps a yellow organic shape decorated with orange, blue and dark hash marks.
Date: 1983
Creator: Milnes, Robert
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Earrings

The earrings consist of domed circular shapes with a circular opening through which is a coiled piece of copper.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elvis / Blue Boy Still Life

This large, mostly black and white painting, depicts a scene of a bar fight from one of Elvis Presley's movies and a reproduction of the famous painting, Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough is superimposed. In front of the painting is a wooden table holding an apple, a pear and a pitcher, not unlike a Paul Cezanne still life.
Date: 1981
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[frames, clouds, ladder, and wavy canyons]

The blue sky is filled with wispy clouds, a ladder reaches from the lower edge of the work to the top edge. Two frame shapes reach from the outer edges of the work to the center creating depth. Behind the frames shapes are green wavy canyons.
Date: 1986
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[full moon in front of grids]

The majority of the artwork consists of a large moon shape in a gradation from white to blue. This moon is situated in front of a brown horizontal grid pattern and from the moon shape hang cotton tapes.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library