The Wittliff Collection is located on the 7th floor of the Alkek library and is currently exhibiting:
ROCKY SCHENCK:
The Recurring Dream
Now through December 4, 2016
ANSEL ADAMS:
A Southwest Legacy
Now through December 4, 2016
MARC SIMMONS:
Southwestern Treasures from the Maverick Historian
Now through December 16, 2016
EMILIO NAVAIRA:
Tejano Music Icon
Now through December 16, 2016
LONESOME DOVE COLLECTION
On Permanent Exhibition
Entrance into a room containing Rocky Schenck: The Recurring Dream
Schenck creates black-and-white dreamscapes, but also hand tints the black-and-white prints with color oil paint for a truly surreal and unique experience.
Texas State sophomore Jake Gutierrez browsing the Rocky Schenck collection.“Lounge Singer” by Rocky Schenck stares longingly at “Taste”The main exhibition room of Rocky Schenck photographs.“Carnival” and “Carousel” by Rocky Schenck.Left to right: “Carnival,” “Carousel,” “Near Vegas” and “Show Girls.”Wall of surreal Rocky Schenck photographs.Colorful Rocky Schenck photographs.“Wedding Sheet” by Rocky Schenck, coy but letting it all hang out.“Burlesque” by Rocky Schenck exuberantly letting it all hang out.Display of Rocky Schenck art books.Texas State student Ethan Vaught, admires a wall of Rocky Schenck photographs.Trio of Rocky Schenck art, left to right: “Canyon”, “Lost Again” and “Bombay Beach.”
Another exhibition is the Ansel Adams exhibition. Adams captures the beauty of the Southwest in photographs with his intimate views of nature.
Welcome to the Ansel Adams exhibition. Left: “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” Right: “Aspens, Northern New Mexico.”Ansel Adams ground view, a hit of a tree in focus.More Ansel Adams prints containing nature and portraits.Exiting the Wittliff Collection.Be sure to visit soon, before these wonderful exhibitions are removed.
Blessings and Besos is the new installment in the Wittliff Collection to celebrate the photographic legacy of Bill Wittliff (1940-2019). Located on the 7th floor of Alkek Library, the exhibition features more than 80 of Wittliff’s photographs. Most of which are from his works in capturing vaqueros working cattle to the making of the miniseries […]
