LASTING TREASURE ARTIST'S WORK RETURNS TO CSUN.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer NORTHRIDGE - A former California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , student's painting has come home. ``California Baroque,'' a 36-by-48-inch abstract painting that now hangs at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge , was created in the 1960s by the late artist Robert Curtis Wilson while he was a student there. Recently, his wife, Marilyn Wilson The following page is about an athlete. For the singer formerly known as Marilyn Wilson, see Marilyn Rovell. Marilyn Wilson (born July 14 1943), known after her marriage as Marilyn Young , was going through her husband's papers when she found a Jan. 14, 1960, article about him in the campus newspaper, The Sundial sundial, instrument that indicates the time of day by the shadow, cast on a surface marked to show hours or fractions of hours, of an object on which the sun's rays fall. . In the photograph that goes with the article, Wilson is seated in front of ``California Baroque'' and talked of his hopes that one of his paintings would someday hang in the university library. So she donated the painting to CSUN. ``I just feel like it's home,'' said Wilson, 54, Grand Island, N.Y., who traveled to CSUN recently to see the painting in its new location, in the lobby of the administrative offices, on the third floor of CSUN's Oviatt Library The Oviatt Library (Delmar T. Oviatt Library) serves the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) campus. The library is named for Delmar T. Oviatt who was instrumental in the founding of CSUN. Today it features over 1.2 million volumes in its collection. . ``I just felt that it had to be here, and I couldn't feel good until it was.'' CSUN President Jolene Koester Jolene Koester is the president of California State University, Northridge. The California State University Board of Trustees announced her appointment as president on November 16, 1999, and she took office as the fourth president of the University on July 1, 2000. thanked Wilson and admired the painting. ``He's one of ours,'' Koester said proudly. ``We have so many faculty like him who bring distinction to the university.'' The painting, done in muted golds, greens and browns and mixed with burlap, gold foil paper, rice paper and other materials, also contains a quotation from ``The Song of Wandering Aengus,'' by poet William Butler William Butler may refer to:
``I like the whole golden beauty of it,'' said Susan Curzon, dean of the university library. Robert Curtis Wilson was born in Sullivan, Ind., in 1926. Following service in the Army during World War II, he moved to Granada Hills, set up a studio and attended San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. State College, which at the time was a satellite campus of Los Angeles State College. It eventually became CSUN. Wilson earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the college, and taught art at Northridge Junior High and Pierce College. He later moved east to teach at State University College in Buffalo, N.Y. Best known as a landscape painter, Wilson's works currently hang in private and public collections across the United States. He is listed in The International Bibliographic Files of Venice, Italy, and Who's Who in Arts and Antiques. He authored books of art, historical fiction, murder mysteries, and 12 unpublished children's books, which he also illustrated. He died of cancer in 1996. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Curtis Wilson's widow, Marilyn Wilson, visits his ``California Baroque'' paintings, which now hangs at CSUN. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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