Ox-Bow slides
Photograph
Fourteen pages of color slides created by Mike and Mae Van Ark from the late 50s and early 1960s when he was the Business Administrator there to 2002.
Images captured include winter and summer landscapes, cottages, group shots, artists at work, a monoprint class, the fire pit, chairs on the porch, boats and canoes, lilypads and ducks in the lagoon, the Deam lighthouse, art pinned to wall for critiques, glass, a decorated pickup truck, flowers, the harbor, visiting fishermen, and a traditional Ox-Bow season/year "grave" with lily pad motif.
Slides were scanned in 2010 are included in this entry, at bottom.
2017.26.08
Slide
Ox-Bow/Summer School of ArtOx-Bow Inn/Riverside Hotel/Shriver family homeOld Harbor/Channel piers pre-1906/Ox-Bow LagoonKalamazoo Lighthouses 1839/1858/1956-presentTillstrom, Burr 1917-1985Van Ark, "Mike" MyronVan Ark, MaeWaldorf/Castoria/Drake studios, Shriver Ice houses/shanties
1910 Ox-BowNauticalBurr Tillstrom
Voss, Mary
2017.26
Van Ark, "Mike" Myron
Donation
Slides collection cataloged in June 2022 by Sally Winthers
1959 - 2002
ArtOxBow Summer school of Art buildingsArtists painting
026 Ox-Bow School of Art
Van Ark, "Mike" MyronTillstrom, Burr 1917-1985KuklaOllie the Dragon
Van Ark, Mae
06/16/2022
08/20/2025