John Loftus is an artist, and a Professor of Art atHobart and William Smith Colleges.In September 1991, in celebration of his seventieth birthday, a majorretrospective 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 MountainGallery in New York City, from May 26 to June 14, 1995.
John Loftus can be reached by e-mail atloftus@hws.edu.
This exhibition was made possible by the PresidentialDeiscretionary Fund (Atkins Fund), the Departments of Art andPhysical 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 theColleges; Gwen Butler, designer; Josephine Clare, poet; LouisDates, director of corporation and foundation support; AndrewHarvey, poet; Hilda Morley, poet; Ellen Staurowsky, director ofathletics, William Smith College; Remy Saisselin, scholar-at-large;Max Yeh, polymath; Phillia Yi, artist. For work on the on-line versionof this catalog my thanks toDavid 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 OldFriends 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 aSupreme Fiction" are copyright 1950 and 1942 by Wallace Stevens andreprinted from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by permissionof Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.