Ox-Bow slides

Name/Title

Ox-Bow slides

Entry/Object ID

2017.26.08

Description

Fourteen pages of color slides created by Mike and Mae Van Ark from the late 50s and early 1960s when he was the Business Administrator there to 2002. Images captured include winter and summer landscapes, cottages, group shots, artists at work, a monoprint class, the fire pit, chairs on the porch, boats and canoes, lilypads and ducks in the lagoon, the Deam lighthouse, art pinned to wall for critiques, glass, a decorated pickup truck, flowers, the harbor, visiting fishermen, and a traditional Ox-Bow season/year "grave" with lily pad motif. Slides were scanned in 2010 are included in this entry, at bottom.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Slide

Subject Person or Organization

Ox-Bow/Summer School of Art, Ox-Bow Inn/Riverside Hotel/Shriver family home, Old Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow Lagoon, Kalamazoo Lighthouses 1839/1858/1956-present, Tillstrom, Burr 1917-1985, Van Ark, "Mike" Myron, Van Ark, Mae

Collection

1910 Ox-Bow, Nautical

Cataloged By

Voss, Mary

Acquisition

Accession

2017.26

Source or Donor

Van Ark, "Mike" Myron

Acquisition Method

Donation

Notes

Slides collection cataloged in June 2022 by Sally Winthers

Made/Created

Date made

1959 - 2002

Lexicon

Search Terms

Art, OxBow Summer school of Art buildings, Artists painting

Location

Box

026 Ox-Bow School of Art

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Van Ark, "Mike" Myron

Person or Organization

Van Ark, Mae

Create Date

June 16, 2022

Update Date

August 23, 2024