Exchange: Sp18 Ross Business School, Sanger Leadership Center

Sp18 Ross Business School, Sanger Leadership Center - Natural Disasters (paper study room)

In this print, three figures in a row boat approach a flooded store.

Thomas Hart Benton
Investigation
lithograph on paper
18 3/4 in x 20 15/16 in x 1 1/8 in (47.63 cm x 53.18 cm x 2.86 cm);18 3/4 in x 20 15/16 in x 1 1/8 in (47.63 cm x 53.18 cm x 2.86 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet

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A black and white photograph of a woman holding a caulinder full of objects. She walks through an area filled with scattered, broken furniture, windows and walls.

Leonard Freed
Woman gathers possessions from wreckage of home destroyed by tornado
gelatin silver print on paper
6 ¼ in x 9 ½ in (15.88 cm x 24.13 cm)
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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This horizontal format painting is done in shades of light and dark gray, cream and yellow. With abstracted forms it depicts jagged mountains sihouetted against a cloudy sky. In front of these mountains there are rolling hills and geometric forms that suggest a cityscape. In the foreground there are more mountain peaks.

Oswaldo Guayasamin
Landscape of Quito
oil on canvas
22 1/2 in x 37 in (57.15 cm x 93.98 cm);31 1/4 in x 45 1/2 in (79.38 cm x 115.57 cm)
Gift of Hugo and Sharon Quiroz

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Image of a book lying open to a page featuring painted clouds. A newsclipping featuring a photo of clouds lies on the book across the open page.

Joanne Leonard
Nolde and Ash Cloud
inkjet print on paper
24 in x 36 3/4 in (60.96 cm x 93.35 cm);20 3/4 in x 31 in (52.71 cm x 78.74 cm)
Gift of the artist

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Italian
Foro civile. Pompei. (475)
albumen print on paper
10 1/2 in. x 15 3/16 in. ( 26.7 cm x 38.5 cm )
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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A photograph of a large, dark stormcloud and tornado rolling over a flat plain. A barn is visible on the horizon line.

Chris Coffey
Tornado, Colorado Plains
gelatin silver print on paper
13 in x 19 3/16 in (33 cm x 48.7 cm);23 7/8 in x 27 7/8 in (60.7 cm x 70.8 cm)
Gift of Richard Spurgeon, in Memory of His Father, William Spurgeon

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In the top left, a volcano erupts with flame shooting upward. Around the volcano, wrapping from the center of the image to the lower left corner, are dozens of individuals who seem to be fleeing the eruption. The larged figure is a mother, a baby in her arms and her mouth and eyes wide open. The entire drawing consists of lines, including shading, with underlying washes of color.

Alfred Kubin
The Omen (Das Zeichen)
watercolor and ink on wove paper (map printed on verso)
12 1/4 in. x 5 5/8 in. ( 31.12 cm x 14.29 cm )
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

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Rough sea with a ship near the shore, people standing on shore.

George Wesley Bellows
Allan Donn Puts to Sea
lithograph on paper
17 ft. 9 in. x 15 13/16 in. (541.02 x 40.01 cm)
Dr. Herbert & Doris Sloan

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This is a black and white photograph showing a rocky outcropping with boulders and brush vegetation set agains a hazy scene of buildings and roads below. On the right are the rooftops of houses clustered at the base of the hillside and on the left are a group of laid foundations for a housing development. In the distance below are roads and buildings.

Joe Deal
Colton, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952

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A farmstead with a barn, windmill, truck, and hay wagon near a road.

Arthur Rothstein
Empty farm and idle truck, Beach, North Dakota
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 18 in (35.56 cm x 45.72 cm)
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80

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Image of a book lying open to a page featuring a painting of the crucified Christ. A newsclipping featuring a photo of an ash-covered body of a man lies on the book across the open page.

Joanne Leonard
Haiti Crucifixes (Earthquake Victim and Murdered Haitian Hero)
inkjet print on paper
24 in x 36 3/4 in (60.96 cm x 93.35 cm);21 in x 31 in (53.34 cm x 78.74 cm)
Gift of the artist

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