MAY
- JUNE 1999 MUNOZ NEWS
RIE�S MAY RELEASES SELL VERY WELL
Two
of the three May releases, �Mother and Child� and �Ravens, Sitka�,
sold out on release day. �Cold Storage, Pelican� only has a
few remaining as of this update.
We received
many enthusiastic calls for these pieces!
Rie�s
next release is July 29 with two excellent prints
and the Frye poster featuring �Concert in the Park.�
RIE
MUNOZ, DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES
As part
of the 1999 Commencement ceremonies Rie Munoz was honored
by the University of Alaska SE with an honorary doctorate
degree of humanities. Rie attended a dinner in her honor a
few days before with the Chancellor of the University of Alaska
along with previous winners of this award.
During
a short speech, Rie told of her first Alaska painting of a
Russian Church that she gave to her new neighbor.
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Last year
he gave the original painting back because he was heading to
the Pioneer�s Home. Rie told of the estimated 2000 Alaskan paintings
she's done since then. She quoted an early 20th Century
American painter, Robert Henri, who said, �There is no
more real life than the adventurous one of living, liking and
expressing the things of ones own time.� Rie said she was trying
to express the things of her own time in Alaska as an artist
and that she intends to keep on doing just that.
The Commencement Ceremonies were carried out a few days later,
with much pomp and circumstance. Close to 500 people packed
the Centennial Hall in Juneau as Rie Munoz was given this high
honor. She spoke to the crowd and told them that most of them
in the hall have probably been subjects, albeit unwittingly,
to her paintings over the years. Rie ended this special evening
by saying it was the beauty of the land that brought her to
Alaska but it was the people that made her stay.
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MUNOZ
PAINTINGS
Available
for Purchase November 5
Exhibition opens November 6
The day
after the 1999 Washington Art Tour ends the Frye Art Museum
will make available the 100 Rie Munoz originals. This will
be a private evening event for Frye members and by invitation.
Contact us if you would like to be put on our Frye invitation
mailing list. Frye membership dues are $25 annually
if you would like to join.
- Friday
November 5 Original Exhibition Frye
Art Museum Seattle
Opening Night - Originals available for purchase.
Frye members & by invitation: 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
- Saturday
November 6, 1999 - Sunday January 9, 2000
Original
Exhibition Frye Art Museum
Seattle
Open to the public.
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�Winter
Fishing, Nome�
Painting to be available at the Frye opening reception
November 5
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TWO
NEW TAPESTRIES ARRIVE
We just received
two new tapestries, both of boats! �Boom Boat� and �Douglas Crab
Boat� were both commissioned by a couple from Olympia, Washington.
This will make their third Munoz Aubusson tapestry.

RELEASE
SCHEDULE
The following
is a tentative release schedule for Rie Munoz art in 1999:
September
4
Book/Catalog
- "Rie Munoz at the Frye Art Museum"
July
29
FRYE Exhibition releases:
Poster - "Concert in the Park"
Print release
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October
28
Print release
October
29
Washington Art Tour
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NOVEMBER
6, 1999 THROUGH JANUARY 9, 2000--
Original Watercolor Exhibition at the Frye Art Museum
Rie Munoz will
tour 7 galleries before the Frye opening. During these shows the
galleries will be showing the latest reproductions, silk-screens
and older works by Munoz. Rie will be signing books and posters
and chatting with customers. She will not be signing at the Frye
opening.
The galleries,
towns and dates are as follows:
- Wednesday,
October 27 Bergsma Showroom Port
Angeles
- Friday,
October 29 Darvill's Rare Print Shop
Eastsound Orcas Island
- Saturday
October 30 The Scott Collection LaConner
- Sunday
October 31 (Halloween) Art Concepts
Tacoma
- Monday
November 1 Eastside Gala-Rie Olympia
- Wednesday
November 3 Frame It Northwest Seattle
- Thursday
November 4 Kenneth Behm Galleries
Bellevue
- Friday
November 5 Original Exhibition Frye Art
Museum Seattle
Opening Night - Originals available for purchase.
Frye members & by invitation: 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
- Saturday
November 6, 1999 - Sunday January 9, 2000
Original
Exhibition Frye Art Museum
Seattle
Open to the public.
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