The Haan Museum of Indiana Art in Lafayette, Indiana recently purchased Dance of Life, their first bronze sculpture by Tuck Langland. This is the tenth museum to include Tuck’s sculptures. See http://www.haanmuseum.org They also have Tuck’s portrait of John Purdue, who donated the land for Purdue University.
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Tuck’s sculpture, Matriarch, now stands in the lobby of the beautifully restored, historic Lerner Theater building. In Elkhart, Indiana. In part, it is there to help celebrate the world premier of Harriet the Musical, about Harriet Tubman. The musical was written by the artistic director of Premier Arts, Craig Gibson.
In May, when planting time returns to the Midwest, Matriarch will move from the lobby to the center of the Quilt Garden next to the Lerner Theater building. This year’s quilt is called Drunkard’s Path, a quilt once used by the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape from the south. The annual Quilt Garden display, which is all over Indiana’s Amish region, is all outdoors and is free to the public. http://www.amishcountry.org/things-to-do/quilt-gardens
Close up of Matriarch
Big trip to Indianapolis coming in early October: deliver two Pathfinder Awards to Indiana Sports Corporation, install and unveil a bust of Dr. Esch at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy), check on the busts being delivered to the Wishart-Eskanazi Hospital, set up a solo show in the UIndy Art Gallery and stay for the opening reception, speak with the fine art curator of the Indiana State Museum, then drive home four days later.
Everyone is invited to the reception to Tuck’s show, “Heads, Real and Imagined” at the University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. on Friday evening, October 4, 2013 from 4 to 6 PM. The show at the Christel de Haan Fine Arts Gallery will end October 25th. The real heads slide from actual portraits, like that of George Mackay Brown, the Orkney writer we admire, and inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, to Africans, to Tuck’s version of the Greek Apollo. Imagined heads are more abstract and interpretive: several versions of Alien Armor, Hovering Head, the Face of Death, and the piercing gaze of Pontius Pilate. The most humorous heads depict musicians, like the Blind Organist Playing Messeian and the Old Conductor who gets a round of applause just for making it onto the stage.
Video sculpture tour of Rochester, Minnesota, beginning with Tuck’s portraits of the Mayo brothers.
http://inside.iu.edu/features/videos/2013-03-06-video-sculptor-iusb.shtml
Tuck speaking about capturing the persona of Herman B Wells in his portrait sculpture
Video of Tuck Langland and IU President Myles Brand unveiling the sculpture of Herman B Wells on the Indiana University campus.
Indiana University South Bend article about on-campus sculpture called Memory
Indiana University South Bend article about on-campus sculpture, Crossroads
Indiana University South Bend article about on-campus sculpture, Ring Ribbons II
Tuck Langland Newsletter 