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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 24, 1967
Japanese collection coming to KU museum
Staff members at KU's Museum of Art have been busy for two weeks setting up the first public showing of the Price Collection of Japanese art, to open Saturday.
But they have the help of the owner himself, Joc D. Price.
Price arrived in Lawrence last week from his home in Bartlesville, Okla., with about two thirds of his collection: 35 hanging scrolls, 10 folding screens, an album leaf and sliding door panels.
Over 100 years old
"They're all more than 100 years old," he said. The earliest is a Motonobu screen painted in 1580, and others are from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Japanese painting is an "art of evolution," Price explained. It took each artist years of practice to learn the delicate but precise brush strokes in his paintings.
"This is the great art of Japan— to express so much feeling in a simple brush stroke."
"There's almost no chance of seeing the arts of the Orient here in the Midwest," Price said. "It's time Western artists learned theirs is not the only art!"
Art expresses love of beauty
Art expresses love of beauty Price finds in Japanese art an expression of great love of beauty. "Western art so often tries to express ugliness," he said. "I feel the Japanese culture more—it's more natural."
A former engineer and pipeline builder. Price first became interested in Japanese art when he worked with architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed several buildings for the Price family.
Price used to sail the South Seas in an 1893 schooner, "the oldest afloat," which he bought in 1959 from actor Sterling Hayden.
The schooner struck a reef and sank near the French Polynesian island Pangaroa, but not before Price had made several trips to Japan to buy paintings.
Brought back a wife
On one of his many visits to the Orient, he "brought back a wife." His bride Etsuko is the subject of several of his 40 photographs, also on display for the first time, downstairs at the Museum.
Price admits he doesn't pay much attention to camera gadgets and technical complications. He strives to create the beauty he sees in natural subjects, such as unposed people and animals.
Most pictures were taken in Tahiti, Nepal, Japan and Africa. One shows a zebra from an angle so close that all one sees are two eyes and a mass of stripes.
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Price started taking pictures as a student at OU.
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"I made a 3.00 grade point average once, so they gave me a camera," he said. "The next semester I made a .30."
Lion's eyes
With a sweep of his hand, Price said, "This is the beauty I see."
In another, a lion's calm but
strong eyes stare out from over tall field grass.
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