Collecting On The Edge
September 15, 2018 - July 31, 2019
Part I – September 15, 2018 – December 15, 2018Part II – January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019
Modern and contemporary art created in the American West, manifesting an independent
spirit and embodying unique ideas, has been largely written out of the mainstream
narrative of art history or placed in unhelpful contexts. Collecting on the Edge, featuring work by 172 artists from the collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum
of Art at Utah State University in Logan Utah, aims to correct that situation. Texts
accompanying each artwork, by eighty-one critics, art historians, curators, gallerists,
artists, and collectors, provide illuminating insights into the works and their creators.
In an introductory essay art critic Michael Duncan exposes the provincialism and regionalist
thinking that has dictated mainstream views of modernism: “Many of the nation’s most
daring, innovative, and iconoclastic works have been ignored…simply because they were
made on the wrong side of the Mississippi.” This extensive catalogue also includes
a substantial interview with visionary collector George Wanlass, who amassed these
works over a thirty-year period, providing a rare glimpse of his philosophy and practice.
An inclusive rewriting of the traditional narrative, with new perspectives on artists
both familiar and unfamiliar, Collecting on the Edge is a must-have resource featuring material unavailable online or through any other
publication.
See the objects in Collecting on the Edge Part I and Part II on our Collection page
Artists:
*Artist in Part I and Part II
Part I
Jeremy Anderson*
Frederick Archer
Ruth Asawa*
Charles Benefiel
Billy Al Bengston
Karl Benjamin*
Ben Berlin*
Forrest Bess*
Edward Biberman*
Emil Bisttram*
Dorr Bothwell*
Richard Bowman*
Nicholas P. Brigante*
Nancy Buchanan
Jo Ann Callis
Marjorie Cameron*
Karen Carson
Bruce Conner*
Edward Corbett
Jay DeFeo*
Roy De Forest
Paul DeMarinis
Tony DeLap
Doug Edge
Jules Engel*
Manny Farber
Lorser Feitelson*
John Ferren*
Oskar Fischinger*
Bob Flanagan/Sheree Rose
Llyn Foulkes*
Terry Fox
Karoly Fulop*
Sush Machida Gaikotsu
Charles Gaines
Sonia Gechtoff*
Selden Connor Gile
Jack Goldstein
Sidney Gordon
Ellwood Graham*
Scott Grieger
Lawren Stewart Harris*
Paul Harris
Helen Mayer Harrison/Newton Harrison
Wally Hedrick*
Mel Henderson
George Herms*
Hilaire Hiler*
Channa Horwitz
Charles Howard*
John Langley Howard*
Robert Boardman Howard*
Douglas Huebler
Robert Irwin
Nancy Jackson
Reuben Kadish*
James Kelly*
Adaline Kent*
Sister Corita Kent
Leslie Kerr
Martin Kersels
Hayward Ellis King*
Madge Knight
Paul Kos
Peter Krasnow*
Harry Kramer
Lucien Labaudt*
William Leavitt
Rico Lebrun*
Seymour Locks*
Maurice Logan*
Fred Lonidier
Jean Lowe
Kim MacConnel
Helen Lundeberg*
Tom Marioni
Don Martin
Fred Mason
Robert McChesney*
Jim Melchert
Knud Merrild
Ed Mieczkowski*
Ron Miyashiro*
Aaron Morse
Lee Mullican*
Manuel Neri
Patrick Nickell
Margaret Nielsen
Irving Norman*
Pat O’Neill
Gordon Onslow Ford*
Eric Orr
John Outterbridge
Wolfgang Paalen*
M. A. Peers
Agnes Pelton*
Don Potts
Robert Ormerod Preusser*
Clayton Sumner Price*
Joe Ray
Ed Ruscha
Birger Sandzen*
Elise Seeds*
Henrietta Shore*
Hassel Smith*
Clay Spohn
Norman Stiegelmeyer
Don Suggs
Ben Talbert
Leo Valledor
Robert Walker
June Wayne*
H. C. Westermann*
Edward Weston
Part II
Arlo Acton
Carlos Almaraz
John Baldessari
Russell Baldwin
Fletcher Benton
Derek Boshier
Roger Brown
Carole Caroompas
Enrique Chagoya
Harold Cohen
Guy de Cointet
Max Cole
Robert Comings
Robert Cumming
John Divola
Jim Eller
Howard Fried
Charles Garabedian
Sidney Gordin
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Jean-Pierre Hébert
Mel Henderson
Mary Henry
Charles Christopher Hill
David Ireland
Jim Isermann
Jess
John Knight
Dr. Kyo Koike
Frank Asakichi Kunishige
Frank Lobdell
John Mason
Michael C. McMillen
Kaz Oshiro
Richard Pettibone
Lari Pittman
Jim Pomeroy
Ann Preston
Noah Purifoy
Roland Reiss
Deborah Remington
Ben Sakoguchi
Peter Saul
Italo Scanga
Terry Schoonhoven
John Sonsini
Jim Starrett
George Stillman
George Stone
Mitchell Syrop
Joyce Treiman
Trimpin
John Valadez
Ger Van Elk
Gordon Wagner
Takako Yamaguchi
Norman Zammitt
Philip Christian Zimmerman
Ruth Asawa
Untitled (S.304, Hanging Six-Lobed, Multi-Layered, Continuous Form, with Double Spheres
Suspended in the First and Last Lobes, and Single Spheres Suspended in the Second
and Fourth Lobes), Detail, 1967
Naturally oxidized copper and brass wire
253 x 37 x 37 inches
Gift of the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Foundation.
Artwork © Estate of Ruth Asawa.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 1, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 2, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 3, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 4, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 5, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 6, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 7, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 8, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 9, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 10, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 11, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 12, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 13, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 14, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 15, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 16, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 17, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 18, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 19, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 20, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 21, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 22, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 23, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 24, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part I Exhibition. September 15 - December 15, 2018. Installation view 25, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, December 2018.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 26, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 27, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 28, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 29, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 30, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 31, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 32, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 33, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 34, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 35, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 36, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 37, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 38, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 39, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 40, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 41, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 42, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 43, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 44, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 45, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
Collecting on the Edge - Part II Exhibition. January 17, 2019 – July 31, 2019. Installation view 46, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah. Photograph by Adelaide Ryder, February 2019.
