The Morris Museum of Art announces the death of artist Philip Morsberger
Jerry Siegel, Philip Morsberger, Georgia, 2006, printed 2012. Digital C-print. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Courtesy of the artist.
AUGUSTA, GA
.- The world lost a great artist with the death of Philip Morsberger on Sunday, January 3, 2021, of complications due to COVID-19.
Philip Morsberger was blessed with many giftshis extraordinary curiosity and creativity, both of which sustained his skills as an artist, were only the most obvious, so, naturally, they are the immediate focus whenever his name comes up. But his interests were protean and encompassing, said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. He could speak with the same knowledgeability and enthusiasm about the film scores of Alfred Newman (only the greatest film composer who ever lived!) and the novels of Charles Dickens, which he read over and over again with devotional rapture. Old movies, radio dramas from
DUI, suspicious fire, flipped cars keep San Jose first responders busy on New Year s
San Jose first responders plenty busy on New Year’s
It was a busy few hours for the beginning of the new year in the South Bay. San Jose first responders worked several scenes, from crashes, to a fire and a DUI accident
SAN JOSE, Calif. - It was a busy few hours in the South Bay for the beginning of 2021. San Jose first responders worked several scenes, from crashes, to a fire and a DUI accident. Never a dull day in San Jose. Always something going on, said a witness identified only as Kenny.
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A small fire broke out outside the San Jose Museum of Art early Friday morning, according to fire officials.
A San Jose fire captain said the person who reported the blaze put out a similar fire outside a building across the street.
The captain said those two blazes happened in addition to a number of other small fires throughout the city overnight. At this point, the captain said they could have been warming fires or intentionally set.
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Susan Landauer, the curator for the Hassel Smith memorial celebration, talks with people who attended at the San Jose Museum of Art in March, 2008. Photo: Kurt Rogers, The Chronicle
Susan Landauer, an art historian and independent curator dedicated to California art and San Francisco abstract expressionism, died Saturday, Dec. 19, at her home in the Montclair district of Oakland. The cause of death was lung cancer, her husband, Carl Landauer, said. She was 62.
Landauer spent 10 years as the chief curator of the San Jose Museum of Art and wrote three books on art history.
“I see her as the foremost historian of California art, deeply dedicated to bringing artists to public attention who are not well known,” said Carl Landauer, who met his wife in graduate school at Yale University, where they were both earning Ph.D. degrees.