Testimonials
Current Artist Spotlight:
Roger Anliker, 1924 - 2013
Roger William Anliker was a master creator and beloved professor. A professor at Carnegie Mellon for over ten years and then in Tyler’s Painting and Graphic Art Department for over thirty years, his work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris. However, beyond his professional achievement, his paintings continue to deeply inspire his family and students. I have the honor of going through his dazzling work and creating the best solutions to protect it, as well as organizing his paperwork post-mortem. Outside archiving his career, I am actively searching for pathways and venues by which to celebrate this man, whom I believe was fiercely devoted to excellence and still has much to teach us. Click below to learn more about Roger’s paintings and 2023 summer exhibition, designed in memory of his profound legacy.
“Falling Through” gouache on arches paper. 21.5 x 29.5”, 1969-1981.
Charles Schmidt
Emeritus Professor of Painting | Tyler School of Art | Temple University
“The Special Collections Library of Temple University has asked me for my ‘papers.’ This includes a large diverse body of material and contains photos of my paintings and drawings. Isabella Christian took on the job to organize it for presentation to the library. She did a thoroughly professional job. She approached the work with organizational skill, intelligence, and was quick to understand new ideas. She worked steadily and wasted no time. She was pleasant to work with and efficient. Isabella is clearly an accomplished archivist and I highly recommend her.”
Dale Roberts
Thirty-Year Philadelphia Gallery Artist
”As an artist working consistently for over forty years, the business aspect of the art life can become a monolithic process, the sheer volume of work amassed can be staggering.
Seeing the results of Isabella bringing order to the chaos has confirmed the wisdom of our decision to engage her in this endeavor. The logical and often elegantly beautiful pathways she has developed for archiving my practice cannot be overestimated.”
Bruce Herman
Gallery Director | Gordon College | Art Department Founder
“Bella Christian worked as a studio apprentice and archivist for me in addition to being my teaching assistant at college. In all settings she was highly motivated and equally organized—in fact her skill was essential in organizing and cataloguing my fifty-year art career with all its piles of paper, exhibition notices, publication, essays, etc. She was a life-saver!”