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S.C. Schoneberg Exhibit at USM Glickman Family Library

June 9, 2004

Eight works by Maine artist S.C. Schoneberg are on display, now through July 15, to celebrate the completion of the top floors of USM's Glickman Family Library.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays. Call 780-4270 to check on holiday hours. The library is located at the intersection of Forest Ave., and Bedford St., Portland.

Schoneberg's work is on exhibit in the UnumProvident Great Reading Room, located on the library's top floor, known as the Alfred and Dorothy Suzi Osher University Pavilion. USM Librarian David Nutty said the exhibit space will be used to showcase the work of artists, and as a way to introduce the public to the resources available in the newly expanded library. The top three floors of the library opened April 15, thanks to more than $3.3 million in private donations.

Many of the Schoneberg works on display are for sale. Thanks to the artist, 50 percent of the proceeds will support future exhibits in the UnumProvident Great Reading Room.

Another Schoneberg painting, "Quarry and Dolman at Iargalon, Me.," is on permanent display in the library's Alfred and Dorothy Suzi Osher University Pavilion. Schoneberg donated the work in honor of his friend and Glickman Family Library patron, Suzi Osher.

Schoneberg, a resident of Limington, has worked in a variety of forms, including portraits, drawings, ink drawings, paintings, prints, murals and sculpture. He has participated in more than 214 exhibitions, including 82 one-person exhibitions, and has studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, the University of Southern California, the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome and the Universidad Michoacana Morelia in Mexico. Schoneberg's works are showcased in many collections, including the National Museum of Mexico, the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece, the Fisk University Museum of Art, Nashville, Tenn., and the University of New England, where he taught for 10 years.

Journal Arts, a publication in Paris, described Schoneberg's work as "Unique classic drawings, sincere, robust, inspired by all possible themes." The Denver Post cited his "...masterful use of line, flexible, sensitive to nuance of both form and effect."

More information on his work is available at www.schonebergfinearts.com/

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