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LAWRENCE-Elizabeth Schultz, University of Kansas Chancellor's Club teaching professor in English, is curating two illustration exhibitions in Massachusetts this summer, both pertaining to the great American novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
For Arrowhead, Melville's home outside Pittsfield, Mass., Schultz curated "A Mighty Theme: Rockwell Kent and Barry Moser Interpret Melville." The exhibit, which compares the work of two great 20th-century illustrators, opened in June and runs through the end of October.
At the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in New Bedford, an exhibit titled "Visualizing Race In Illustrations of Moby-Dick" opened July 9 and runs through the end of the month.
In fall 2001, Shultz will curate a third show of Moby-Dick illustrations with Robert Wallace for the international Moby-Dick conference at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
In 1995, Schultz curated the KU Spencer Museum of Art exhibition, "Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and American Art, 1930-1990,"including more than 80 works of art inspired by Melville's 1851 novel. The University Press of Kansas published a related book authored by Schultz, "Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art."