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One Thousand Years of Silence

Clay pottery and artifacts of Ancient Native Americans, buried for 1,000 years,

find new expression in the Oil Paintings of Bob Bickers

March 3 - 31, 2004 at the Undercroft Gallery

(Located at the First Unitarian Church, Shadyside, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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While contemporary artistic expression featuring the art of Native American Indians of the American Southwest are not uncommon, art depicting the ancient cultures that once inhabited the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys is rare. Bob’s life-long fascination with the people who called his home their home over a thousand years ago has culminated with the artistic resurrection of their art with his art. This show is a tribute to a noble but mysterious people from whom we have much to learn, to admire and to remember.

Sunstreaked    

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture Effigy figurine.

Holes and Triangles   

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas    

Mississippian Culture effigy figurine.

Three-Headed Pot    

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas    

Round Bottom Girl    

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture Effigy figurine.

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go            

24” x 30”; oil on canvas

Based on ancient North American pottery found  in Northern Mexico.

Toothy Grin   

22” x 28” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture Effigy figurine dating from approximately 1,000 years ago.

Bird Bowl

22” x 28” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture Effigy figurine dating from approximately 1,000 years ago.

Teary-eyed Beauty    

28” x 22” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture effigy figurine

Feathered Prayers of the Hopewell     

20” x 24” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture clay pot, copper bird and pipe dating from approximately 1,000 years ago.

Golden Arches    

24” x 18” ; oil on canvas    

Vortex     

15” x 15” ; oil on canvas     

Mississippian Culture.

Seeing Eye Pot          

15” x 15” ; oil on canvas

This painting of a Mississippian Culture pot is based on one on exhibit at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, TN.

White Spot Pot    

24” x 18” ; oil on canvas

Radius     

24” x 18” ; oil on canvas     

Swirls and Eddies    

24” x 18” ; oil on canvas    

Dusk in the City

20” x 24” ; oil on canvas    

Cook Forest Stream  

20” x 24” ; oil on canvas     

Near Moab  

15” x 30” ; oil on canvas

A scene in Arches National Park, Utah.  This painting came in FIRST PLACE at the EAST SUBURBAN ARTISTS LEAGUE’s OKTOBERFEST, Monroeville, PA, October, 1996.

Westmoreland October

18” x 24” ; oil on canvas    

Urban Jurassic

18” x 24” ; oil on canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

This is a view of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Seventh Street and Liberty Avenue. This painting was juried into the 10th ANNUAL REGIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Inc. at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, PA, from November, 2005 to February, 2006. It was featured on the back cover of the show's program.

Sunflowers

12” x 9” ; oil on canvas

Mississippian Pot          

13.5” x 18”; oil/canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

Based upon a pot in a small museum in eastern Arkansas.  The original was formed by Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.

This painting was not part of this 2004 exhibition, but was instead exhibited and sold in a prior show in 2001.  It is included as an example of the Mississippian Culture pottery that Bob was painting in this time frame.

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