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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 5,1967
Watch the clocks at Museum
By Linda McCrerey
Kansan Staff Reporter
Three centuries of European clock and watch designs will be on display in the Museum of Art until Jan. 19.
John Ittman, Cincinnati, Ohio, sophomore, assembled the collection while working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art last summer.
Kansan photo by Mike Shurtz
"I knew there were many watches, clocks and prints of them scattered around the museum, but no one had ever bothered to collect them." Ittman said. "I catalogued them, and when the museum curators saw how many there were, they asked me to arrange an exhibition."
ARRANGING EXHIBITION
Arranging the exhibition meant not only assembling the material, but also deciding how to display it showing the evolution of decorative design in clocks and watches.
Most of the exhibition consists of 65 prints and drawings from the Metropolitan Museum, with about a dozen clocks from the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City and from the KU Museum of Art's own collection.
The earliest design, made in 1580, is for an ornament ring-watch. Timepieces then were also created in the form of pendants.
"A lot of these came from design books," Ittman said. "Various engravers would sell the books to jewelers, goldsmiths and clock-makers, who would copy the designs in their works."
Some prints show elaborately decorated watch cases, popular in the early 17th century.
"People considered watches precious, though they weren't yet that accurate," Ittman said. "They became objects of luxury, like jewels. In early 17th century France they stopped making clocks for several decades because everybody wanted watches instead."
Other prints depict the theme of the march of time. In Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder's print, "The Triumph of Time,"
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HDLF. Lecture. "Agression and Other Matters." 4 p.m. Nathan Azrin, Anna (Ill.) State Hospital. Forum Room. Kansas Union.
Peace Corps Exam. 3:30 p.m. Also
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Poetry Reading. 4 p.m. Nancy Willis
Story Reading. West Reading Room.
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Fresh Basketball. 5:45 p.m. KCJC.
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Carlion Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
John Itman sets a mid-19th century porcelain and gilt bronze mantle clock in its place for the Art Museum exhibition.
symbolic figures file past a clock in a tree.
Another mysterious allegory shows "One of the Seven Virtues, Temperance," in the form of a cloaked figure with a clock on its head.
"The 18th century is much easier to understand," Ittman said.
Clockmakers in the early 18th century handed out cards advertising their wares. One ad is for
a clock called "The Harmonious Temple of Apollo," saying the clock "will play 16 fine pieces of Musicix in Parts, compos'd by Signiors Corelli, Handell, and other Celebrated Masters. .."
Clockmakers also made engraved tradecards which they inserted under the watch cover to protect the crystal. "These are an art form in their own way," said Ittman.
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