John Loftus is an artist, and a Professor of Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In September 1991, in celebration of his seventieth birthday, a major retrospective exhibition of his work was presented at the Colleges. This is the catalog of that exhibition.
Some of these works can be seen at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City, from May 26 to June 14, 1995.
John Loftus can be reached by e-mail at loftus@hws.edu.
(This on-line catalog contains the text and images from the original exhibition catalog. Text pages contain small images of the paintings. Click on any such image to download a larger, higher-quality image.)
This exhibition was made porrible by the Presidential Discretionary Fund (Atkins Fund), the Department of Art and Physical Education, and the Arts Council. For their help, encouragement, and support I want to express my gratitude to: Clayton Adams, photographer; Caroll Brewster, president of the Colleges; Gwen Butler, designer; Josephine Clare, poet; LouisDates, director of corporation and foundation support; AndrewHarvey, poet; Hilda Morley, poet; Ellen Staurowsky, director of athletics, William Smith College; Remy Saisselin, scholar-at-large; Max Yeh, polymath; Phillia Yi, artist. For work on the on-line version of this catalog my thanks to David Eck, Alissa Fleet, and Alexei Deshevoi.
ISBN 0-910969-01-9
Copyright 1991 by John Loftus
To the Tune of Ho Hsin-lang by Hsin Ch'i-Chi, exerpted from Old Friends from Far Away, copyright 1980 by Vincent McHugh and C.H. Kwock. Published by North Point Press and reprinted by permission.
Lines from "Cafe Guerbois" reprinted with permission from Cloudlessat First by Hilda Morley, published by Moyer Bell Limited.
Lines from "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" and "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" are copyright 1950 and 1942 by Wallace Stevens and reprinted from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.