Arkansas Blog: Art search

A news release rolled in this afternoon that says a New York museum is looking for the painting on which this Goo Goo Dolls album cover was based. It was purchased in the Delta exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center in 1980. The purchaser was believed to be an Arkansas rice farmer.

Any clues? Contact info on the jump. Let us know, too.

The Castellani Art Museum, located in Lewiston, New York, is trying to find a very important painting by American artist Jed Jackson. The painting titled “Arkansas Sunset” (1980) (see attachment) was purchased from the Arkansas Art Center Delta exhibition in Little Rock in 1980. As the artist recalls, “the painting was purchased by a prominent rice farmer in central Arkansas.” Unfortunately this is where the trail ends…..as records of who purchased this painting are incomplete.

This painting was featured as the album cover art for the modern mega-rock band, the Goo Goo Dolls, 1989 album. The Castellani Art Museum is searching for this painting, which measures approximately 40 x 40 inches, to be included in an upcoming exhibition of the artist’s work in early 2009.

“It feels like a modern-day Indiana Jones expedition…except the whip and Colt revolver are replaced with phones and email,” exclaimed the exhibition Curator Michael Beam.

“We hope that the generosity of the central Arkansas print and television media will help us in the quest to find this famous painting by t heir own native son—Jed Jackson. ”

Please contact Michael Beam, Curator of Exhibitions, Castellani Art Museum at

716-286-82 86 if you know the owner of this important and historical artwork.

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You should check with Garbo Hearne at Hearne Fine Art in little Rock. She is up on African American Folk Art, of which I think this painting would fall, places quite a number of originals of that type and maybe they'll get lucky. She just may be able to help out. You never know.

Posted by: IABL1969 | August 29, 2008 02:54 PM

Contact for the gallery:

http://hearnefineart.com/

Phone: 378-6822

located in River Market district.

I just went to the website for contact info and there is quite a lot of that genre on the homepage.

Posted by: IABL1969 | August 29, 2008 03:00 PM

Hearne might be able to help, but it won't be because Jed Jackson is a black folk artist. He is white, originally from Blyetheville (I think) and studied art at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) in the mid-70s before earning a B.F.A. from the Memphis College of Art and an M.F.A. from Cornell. Last I heard he was painting and teaching art in Memphis.

Posted by: Whit E. Knight | August 29, 2008 03:26 PM

Beech-nut and Jack Black, you can tell the artist has personally been there.

Posted by: 70%er | August 29, 2008 03:26 PM

Indeed 70% and a Budweiser on the dash.

Posted by: eLwood | August 29, 2008 03:46 PM

Whit E. Knight

Ooops. I just assumed and you know what that does. Just goes to show I should never throw my two cents in when dealing with high culture.

Posted by: IABL1969 | August 29, 2008 04:01 PM

I see that now, I should ask my boss (wifey) for a new monitor.

My story about the subject is that it's Saturday evening and the farmer is surveying his work of the past week, listening to some twangy & clangy country.

Ya'll have a good weekend.

Posted by: 70%er | August 29, 2008 04:14 PM

This may already have been thought of, but someone should put a call in to Townsend Wolfe. And anyone who was on the AAC board at the time. Might get lucky.

Posted by: Squirrelhenge | August 29, 2008 04:55 PM

I'd be careful on this one, could be a government conspiracy to find out who the driver with the booze bottle on the seat and the Bud cans on the dash is so they can arrest him for posing with an open container. Yep, cruising down the road boozing it up, and then letting someone paint your picture! Intelligence not included! I be Bush has got homeland watching for these guys! Crime of the century I tell ya!

Posted by: JNYJ | August 29, 2008 07:12 PM

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