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Monday, August 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Art exhibit awaiting opening of gallery
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
A long journey for a University of Kansas art exhibit recently has been made even longer.
After languishing in damp warehouses for more than 20 years, 29 cast plaster replicas of classical statues and busts were to be put on display this fall at a new gallery in Lippincott Hall.
But a contractor's renovation of the gallery did not meet specifications, and the opening of the exhibit was to be back to next year, KU officials said.
As a result, replicas of such notable Greek statues of Apollo Belvedere and Diskobolos, the disc throuter, now sit partially assembled at the gallery. The bust remain in the boxes they were moved in.
The casts are part of the Wilcox Collection, which was assembled in 1888 by A.M. Wilcox, a KU professor of Greek.
Jim Modig, director of facilities planning for the Lawrence campus, said the project had appeared to be on schedule, but problems emerged in the spring when the statues were scheduled to be moved in.
The gallery's problems include flawed woodwork, rough walls due to sheetrock problems and the lack of grilles installed over heating and cooling vents.
At a May meeting with the contractor, Jo Co Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., the University decided to terminate the company's contract
because the work had not met specifications. Modig said.
The original contract was for about $60,000, Modig said, and the unfinished work will cost between $7,000 and $10,000.
The company agreed to refund about $8,300, with about $2,500 of that being for the air conditioning vent grilles. Mogadigai said.
Modig said his department still was debating whether to hire a new contractor or have the department of facilities operations complete the job.
"The way things are going, if we got someone started on construction by the first of December I would have to be extremely pleased," Modig said.
Betty Banks, associate professor of classics and curator of the collection, said the statues had been housed since the mid-1960s in various Lawrence warehouses, where they suffered water damage and decay.
The plaster status, about a century old, have since been restored.
They are valuable because of their quality. Banks said.
To get a cast today, an order would have to be placed with the museum that houses the original statue and then be shipped by air, she said.
"That would cost thousands of dollars, and they're not as good in quality." Banks said.
The casts in the Wilcox collection are from Europe, she said, and most were ordered in the late 19th century from a firm in Boston.
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