Mead Art Museum honors Michael Mazur, distinguished artist and Amherst College alumnus, with exhibition
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The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College celebrates the memory of Michael Mazur with Perspectives on Michael Mazur, a new career-spanning exhibition of his work. Mazur, one of the most distinguished artists to graduate from Amherst, would have marked his 60th reunion year this spring. The exhibition draws on the Mead`s extensive holdings of Mazur`s work, as well as generous loans from classmates, H. Axel Schupf and Jane and Bob Keiter, Class of 1957. Many of the objects in Perspectives on Michael Mazur have never before been shown in public, including his senior thesis An Image of Salome. The exhibition also includes examples of his vibrant pastels, large-scale gestural paintings and well-known prints, such as those that Mazur created for The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, a former U.S.