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Brave, Thrifty and Reverent
Painting

1993
52 x 36 in. (132.08 x 91.44 cm)

Rick Arnitz (St. Louis, Missouri, 1949 – 2018) Primary

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Oil and oil enamel on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Carolyn and Preston Butcher
Accession Number: 1997.03

Exhibition


Bookish
, September 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, November 20, 2004 - July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, South Metro A and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

Is the Medium the Message?: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, March 2, 2002 - June 2, 2002, New Wing, Metro A, Skylight and South Galleries, Second Floor, San José Museum of Art.

SJMA Label Text


Bookish (2011-2012)

As a young man, Rick Arnitz was drafted into the Army and served as a radio operator. In these paintings, he used the dots and dashes of Morse Code visually to represent the attributes of the ideal Boy Scout enumerated in the titles: brave, thrifty, reverent, helpful, and obedient.


Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection (2004-2006)

Rick Arnitz calls himself a “quasi-radical who is no longer political.” As a young man, he was drafted into the Army and served as a radio operator. After ten months and four days he was discharged as a conscientious objector. Here he uses the dots and dashes of Morse Code to visually represent the adjectives named in the titles—brave, thrifty, reverent, helpful, and obedient—the characteristics of an ideal Boy Scout.

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