October 29, 2017–October 28, 2018
The University of Maryland University College Arts Program welcomes you to explore Joseph Sheppard: Highlights from the UMUC Collection, a new exhibition that celebrates the master artist's work. A Baltimore native, Sheppard is an internationally renowned painter and sculptor whose work has been featured in collections around the world. This exhibition features selected pieces from UMUC’s collection, which includes more than 100 of Sheppard’s works. The selections highlight the artistry, craftsmanship, and diversity of his work and showcase Sheppard’s realism, vibrant use of color, and attention to detail.
The Leroy Merritt Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard honors Sheppard's extraordinary work, underscores his lifelong devotion to creating and promoting classical art, and celebrates the legacy of Maryland philanthropist and businessman Leroy Merritt. Designed by well-known Baltimore architect Jim Grieves, this extraordinary cultural arts center serves as an enduring tribute to the accomplished painter and sculptor. Established in 2010, the center furthers the university's goal of promoting lifelong learning and serves as a unique focal point for the university's highly acclaimed visual art collections.
The Center is particularly unusual in that it showcases the work of a unique, living artist—Joseph Sheppard not only paints and sculpts, but also has written several books on art. Sheppard was born in 1930 in Owings Mills, Maryland, and educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art under Jacques Maroger, the former technical director of the Louvre Museum in Paris. One of Maryland's most renowned artists, Sheppard stands now as an acknowledged master of a realism that recalls the style of the Renaissance masters. His credo, as put forth in the introduction to a recent major exhibition at UMUC, Beast of Burden, reads as follows:
* I believe that technical skill is still an important element in art.
* I believe that there is no object to non-objective, that minimal is less, that junk sculpture is junk, and form in painting relates to the illusion of three dimensions.
* My art is based on the return to those standards which demand the knowledge of composition, perspective, color, three dimensional form, draftsmanship and anatomy.
The Leroy Merritt Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard will house a permanent collection of more than 20 of Sheppard's finest bronze and marble sculptures, which have been donated to the university. The gallery will display a variety of paintings, on loan and in rotating exhibits, including a selection of Sheppard's most notable works, many of which were showcased in earlier exhibitions at UMUC, including Beast of Burden and Fifty Years of Art. The study center will house Sheppard's extensive personal collection of about 1,000 books about classical art and artists, along with a series of original drawings illustrating themes such as the male figure, still life, and head and portrait studies.
The Center features an interior by Rita St. Claira, as well as a state-of-the-art climate control system, a "green" roof planted with sedum, and custom lighting by specialist Cheryl Flota, of Light'n Up, whose extensive résumé includes the display lighting for one of the Smithsonian Institution's most prized possessions, the Hope Diamond.
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