"The Artist as Historian: Painting the Wabash and Erie Canal" is the lecture topic by artist Terry Lacy, to be presented on Sunday, April 6, 2008, at the Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Society's George R. Mather Lecture Series.
The one hour long, 2:00 p.m. event that takes place in the Freimann Room at 302 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, is free to the public.
The one hour long, 2:00 p.m. event that takes place in the Freimann Room at 302 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, is free to the public.
How far does "artistic license" go? There have been many illustrations over the years romanticizing epic moments in history. Many of these have been flights of fancy with little connection to real facts. That cannot be said of works created by Terry Lacy, an artist with a conscience.
In creating a mural composed of a series of large scale oil paintings for the Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretative Center in Delphi, Indiana, in Carroll County, Lacy who has degrees from Herron School of Art (BFA) and Indiana University (MFA), had to imagine what certain sites may have looked like long after they had been altered by the intrusion of a modern world. Through extensive research and a keen eye for telling details, he created a sense of time and space from a bygone era. The mural circles the entire lobby of the Interpretive Center and most of the paintings measure between six and eleven feet in length.
Murals depict scenes on the Wabash & Erie Canal extending from Toledo, Ohio, through Fort Wayne, Wabash, Logansport, Delphi, Lafayette, Attica, Terre Haute south to Evansville on the Ohio River. This highly visual presentation will demonstrate how historic clues can contribute to a more faithful artistic expression.
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