Dr. Sun-Young Won Lee is a painter and retired art professor from The Ohio State University at Lima. Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1943, she studied art at the Ewha Womans University in South Korea, the Pratt Institute in New York, and received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Art Education from The Ohio State University. Nearly all of her works employ color nuances and numerous layers that intertwine the concepts of multiplicity and unity, suggesting a universal inseparability between human existence and nature. The painting featured on our wall in the quiet area is Fragrance of Spring, painted in 1994.
Anna Atkins was a British botanist and photographer, and is considered to be the first publisher of a book illustrated with photographic images. Her work, Lastrea Spinulosa, is on of these photographic images as a cyanotype print. By placing this fern directly on the photographic paper, Atkins captured its precise outline so that the photograph might be used for scientific reference.
Chiuru Obata was a Japanese-American artist and art teacher, who arrived in the United States in 1903 at the age of 17. He had a successful career as a painter after working as an illustrator and decorator. He became a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley and served in this role from 1932 to 1954, which was interrupted by World War II when he spent a year in an internment camp. Evening Moon, Yosemite was created using a wood cut and depicts a high cliff under a moonlit sky at Yosemite National Park, with tall trees, possibly giant sequoias, in the foreground.