Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 45

IE05E Lansing State Journal Thursday, Nov. 27, 1986 mm mom sFTHD C7 wJ Mm HMJJJII.tJ.I.WH.!:HiaiBHil :ll.l-i.i:l.l.li.r.VJ1 "The Mad Hatter" is a work from the late artist Leo Weeks of Lansing. Weeks' collection is on exhibit at MSU's Kresge Art Museum. Weeks born to be an artist TAKE AN ADDITIONAL 25 OFF ALL MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CLEARANCE SHOES WITH EVEN DOLLAR ENDINGS SAVE 20 ENTIRE STOCK MEN'S AND WOMEN'S HOUSESLIPPERS reg. 2.99 to 13.99, NOW 2.39 to 11.19 FAMOUS BRANDS FOR LESS David Thomas CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY, OPEN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 9 A.M.

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WE ACCEPT MASTERCARD, VISA, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AND ELDER-BEERMAN CHARGE missed by either aviation buffs or anyone interested in photo history. East Lansing's Saper Galleries is hosting a reception on Sunday (1 to 4 p.m.) for a new exhibit featuring West German artist Volker Kuhn. Kuhn began in the early 1970s exhibiting kinetic light objects before moving on to drawings and graphics. Gallery owner Roy Saper has acquired 125 original color etchings of Kuhn's. The exhibit continues through January.

Nanci Winborn of the Friends of Kresge is putting together a Dec. 3 trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts for the exhibition "Of Water and Ink: Muromachi Period Painting From Japan 1392-1568." For more information, give the Kresge Museum a call at 355-7631. Congratulations to Lansing photographer W. Spencer Par-shall who took an honorable mention in the Detroit News annual photo contest. Parshall's winner, "Soaring Fin," was shot at an old-; car show with a wide-angle lens on a Pentax LX and appeared in the paper's most recent Sunday magazine.

Lansing Arts Council Center director Sue Mills informed me that Artrain will be in Lansing during Michigan Week (in May) next year. The 1987 Artrain exhibition will be devoted to the Cran-brook Academy of Art and will present drawings, photos, furniture, fabrics, ceramics and silver works from Cranbrook's collection. David Thomas is the Lansing State Journal's visual arts "When Leo was born, his mother knew he would become an artist," Ethelyn Weeks told me recently. "As the doctor picked him up, Leo's hand clutched the doctor's pencil." I had called Ethelyn Weeks at her Traverse City home to find out about her late husband, illustrator and painter Leo Rosco Weeks. The former Lansing resident is one Of 37 artists from Michigan's past whose works will be included in "The Michigan Experience" exhibit which opens Sunday at Michigan State University's Kresge Art Museum.

-Ethelyn Weeks was celebrating her 79th birthday on the day I phoned. She turned out to be a delightful lady and a meticulous conservator of information about her late husband. Born in La Crosse, she said, Leo Weeks came to Lansing in the early 1900s, attended Lansing High School and was a well-known area gymnast In fact, with Lansing's Larned Runnels and Irving Davenport, he formed a tumbling act that performed at local events. But Leo's mother was right. He did become an artist, developing his talents by creating illustrations for the "Oracle" (Lansing High School's yearbook), attending the American Academy of Art in Chicago and eventually working as an illustrator and art director for Popular Mechanics Magazine in Chicago and New York.

"He could have made a lot more money (as an illustrator) than he did, but he wanted time to do his paintings," she remembered. Weeks' paintings included landscapes, portraits and still lifes in oil and transparent water-colors, winning him many awards in Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey between 1938 and 1976. "Stacking The Straw," his work for next week's Kresge exhibit, is an oil painting of a harvest on a near Buckley. Ethelyn Weeks is extremely excited about "The Michigan Expe- BRILLIANT PREMIERE. THE SEIKO JEWELBYCOLLECTION.

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The opening reception for "The Michigan Experience" is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. I stopped by the R.E. Olds Museum on Sunday to see the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit called "Early Flight 1900-1911." It includes dozens of photos related to the early aviation successes (and failures) of Orville and Wilbur Wright It's a nice exhibit and shouldn't be Outdoor news every Sunday Easy Living PROVIDENCE Oriental Classics JOVIAN Regency Manor COUNTRYSIDE Regency Manor NAPA VALLEY Silken Shadow DIANA MCNABB'S MILLIKEN PLACE MAGIC CARPET gold-tone, its graceful shape repeated link after link. D.

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