Mike Lyon

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Topper 79 x 38 inches large pen and ink drawing

October 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Linda (the model’s spouse) phoned me last summer to say that she and her husband LOVED my drawing of “Arthur” which they’d first seen at the Kemper Museum’s Backstage Pass show, and again later at Arthur’s home.  She wanted to give her husband, Topper, a portrait (of him) for his birthday.  I thought Christmas might […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Full Figure, Intricacy, Kemper Museum, Pen And Ink, Pens, Topper, Visual Artist

Crosby watercolor and ink 90 x 45 inches

November 26, 2007 By Mike Lyon

When my “Sarah” drawing was first exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the founder’s wife appreciated it and invited me to create a similar life-size portrait of her husband, Crosby, a giant of a man and huge patron of the arts.  They loved this portrait and it was later purchased by the museum […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting Tagged With: Arches, Black Ink, Crosby, Flat Colors, Frisket, Gizmo, Hot Iron, Hot Press, Kemper Museum, Monotypes, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Patron Of The Arts, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Self Portrait, Watercolor Paper, Watercolor Washes

“Jim” Collaboration with Lawrence Lithography Workshop

October 15, 2007 By Mike Lyon

“Jim“, 2008, 43.25 x 30 inches, lithograph from seven plates on BFK Tan paper is available for $1,800 from Lawrence Lithography Workshop edition of 26. Collections: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art, The Collectors Fund, Consumer Growth Partners At the opening of the Kemper Museum “Backstage Pass” show […]

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Exhibition: Backstage Pass opened at Kemper Museum

September 8, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Last night, Linda and I had a ball at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art here in Kansas City. It was the opening of their new show, Backstage Pass: Collecting Art in Kansas City which runs September 7–November 4, 2007. By pairing artworks from area private collections with examples by the same artists represented in […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Exhibitions, Video Tagged With: American Artists, Andy Warhol, Christopher Cook, Collecting Art, Deborah Butterfield, Duane Hanson, Exhibition Catalog, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Kemper Museum, Lezley Saar, Mike Lyon, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Private Collections, Richard Estes, Willem De Kooning

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