Portfolio of Work
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1000 Possums
1982 | Lithograph | Edition size 22 | Paper size 14 x 19 My mother lived in rural Missouri and often talked about possums killing her chickens. After her death, we found a possum skull attached to a coat hanger in her garage. Our speculation is that she heard a noise in the chicken house,…
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Collaboration
1996 | Lithograph | Edition Size 13 | 16 x 16 1/2 About a dance piece that moved me. ~Bob
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Cowbird
1989 | Lithograph | Edition size 30 | Paper size 14 x 19 Cowbird images based on ebony cowbird figure sent by Bob’s uncle Ralph Kettelkamp, who was a Medical Missionary in the Belgian Congo from 1924 to mid ’50’s. MJK
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Glenn Gould
2006 | Relief | Edition Size N/A | 14 x 16 1/2 Bob Loved music-jazz, classical, folk, and he usually had music on in his studio. Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations was a particular favorite. MJK
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I am Telling the Bees
1981 | Lithograph | Edition Size 20 | 21 1/4 x 30 TELLING THE BEES For his entry in the Great Beehive Exhibit 1981, Bob chose the folk practice of “Telling the Bees”. This custom of announcing the death of the family patriarch to the bees in order to prevent them from leaving, is mentioned…
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Immerson
1983 | Intaglio/ relief | Edition size 20 | Image size 38 x 50 Diptych SHEEP Bob was fascinated by the texture of sheep wool and once went to the sheep judging at the Utah State fair to make sketches of the various sheep breeds. He found water wash to be a technique that enabled…
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Little Cockscomb Bit Cockscomb Torry, Utah
Pastel Drawing | 23″ x 30 1/2″ | 1985 | Monotype
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Magic Rat-Fox Game Study #1
1989 | Lithograph | Edition Size Monotype | 18 x 25 Series of monotypes – spin off from a dream about a super pinball game in which small furry mammals (rats) stood in for the steel balls. Here they have ancestry in mummified animals, such as Egyptian cats. ~ Bob
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Magic Rat-Fox Game Study #3
1989 | Lithograph | Edition Size Monotype | 20 x 20 1/2 Series of monotypes – spin off from a dream about a super pinball game in which small furry mammals (rats) stood in for the steel balls. Here they have ancestry in mummified animals, such as Egyptian cats. ~ Bob
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Magic Rat-Fox Game Study #4
Lithograph | 19 v3/4″ x 21 1/4″ | 1989 | Monotype Series of monotypes – spin offs from a dream about a super pinball game in which small furry mammals (rats) stood in for the steel balls. Here they have ancestry in mummified animals, such as Egyptian cats. ~ Bob
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Maladies: Dorsal Incision for Access to Metatarsophalangeal Joint
1974 | Lithograph | Edition size 14 | Image size 20 3/4 x 29 3/4
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Maladies: Foot Print (Wilson’s Malady)
1980 | Etching | Edition size 14 | Paper size 22 x 31
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Maladies: Metatarsal Ulcer
1973 | Lithograph | Edition size 14 | Paper size 20 1/2 x 29 3/4
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Mole Breech
Lithograph | 21 1/2″ x 29 1/2″ | 1999 | Monotype One of a series of reductive monotypes combined with elements of other media. In this case the animal is a lithographic drawing and the rest is monotype. Probably originates with an early childhood peek discarded moles trapped in my uncle’s lawn. An early death…
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Morrison: West Cainville Hwy 24
1985 | Pastel | Drawing | 17 3/4 x 25 CAPITAL REEF Bob spent many hours exploring Southern Utah, especially the Capital Reef area. Some of his favorite locations were depicted in pastel drawings, MJK
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Mutter Kettelkemp (BIO)
1986 | Litho/letter press | Edition size 13 | Paper size 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 Near the end of her life, Bob’s great grandmother, Maria Geselbracht Kettelkamp, published a small book Ruckblick (a look back) sharing with her children memories of a life filled with joys and sorrows. At the age of 16, she…
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Puppet Study
1985 | Lithograph | Edition size 10; 2 AP | Paper size 22 1/4 x 30 When I worked at Head Start (1970-200) I found a box of discarded pluppets and animals (Creative Playthings 1855). They were flattened and fragile from being stacked and stored for many years, but Bob found them interesting and…
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Ruckblick Studies: Another sun
1986 | Pastel | Edition Size Monotype | 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 Near the end of her life, Bob’s great grandmother, Maria Geselbracht Kettelkamp, published a small book Ruckblick (a look back) sharing with her children memories of a life filled with joys and sorrows. At the age of 16, she was deeply moved…
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Ruckblick Studies: Homage to Mutter Kettlekemp (Broadside)
Relief, Lithograph, Letter Press | 103/4″ x 14 3/4″ | 1999 This was my first encounter with letterpress printing, done at Red Butte Press, U of U
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Ruckblick Studies: The Stars Were My Accusers
Pastel, Watercolor | 12 1/2″ x 18 1/2″ | 1986
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Ruckblick study: Head of Mutter Kettlekemp
1986 | Pastel | Edition Size Monotype | 12 1/2 x 17 3/4
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Ruckblick study: The vows we had made
1986 | Pastel | Edition Size Monotype | 12 1/2 x 18 1/2
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Schafmumien
1982 | Lithograph | Edition size 20 | Paper size 22 x 29 When we visited the British Museum in London, we were looking at cat mummies and noticed that the pattern of the cloth wrapping on the mummies often resembled the traditional Log Cabin pattern in traditional quilt making. That Christmas, I found a…
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Somewhere In Utah I Am Telling the Bees
1980 | Lithograph | Edition size 5 | Paper size 25 x 30
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Stasis: Kinesis
1998 | Lithograph | Edition size 13; 1 AP | Paper size 14 x 19 On being 70. ~Bob
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To Canterbury They Wende….
Relief/ Letterpress | 4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ | 2005 |Edition 20 20 Pages Self Cover View Entire Book
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We Used To Dip Sheep
1980 | Lithograph | Edition size 32 | Paper size 19 x 26 Not strictly autobiographical, I’m a city boy. The beginning of an ongoing interest in sheep as a personal symbol — not of anything I can identify. It just carries its own importance. Intricate wash textures in lithography are another ongoing interest.
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