PORTFOLIO 1 - EARLY WORKS
These images are from the collection of slides taken by Harvey Caddis at the memorial exhibition of Gary Minkert's work in 1969 in Bryan, Texas. Curator: Jesse Minkert.
Categories on this page include pre-college and student works, and then, in no particular chronological order, still lifes, figure studies, assemblages, and allegories.
2 PRE-COLLEGE
"Gary Minkert"
An ink portrait by a fellow student.
6 STUDENT WORK
Created under instruction at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 1959-1960.
"Jonah and the Fish"
welded steel
Liz age 9
etching
Jesse age 12
etching
Mink Art Supply and Picture Frames
family business
3 STILL LIFE
4 FIGURES
2 ASSEMBLAGE
Large-scale compositions made of everyday objects, scraps, paint, and some gold leaf.
"Venus" mixed media
Hammered copper, wood, staples, oil paint, gold leaf, etc.
Assemblage on a wooden door: Lettering exercise on oilcloth by Jesse Minkert, projecting stump branch, wooden bowl, wooden spoons, plastic egg cartons, bones arranged to make a female figure, scraps of fabric, gesso, oil paint, etc.
3 ALLEGORIES
"Madonna and Child"
Mink chose a traditional theme to paint a double portrait of his daughter, Patti, holding his grandson, Les.
"Ages of Man"
The life of a modern everyman from his grotesque mother's arms, up the ladder of success, and declining into the grave at bottom right. In the upper right, just to the right of the man in the suit, is a self-portrait.
"Life and Death"
His last painting. On the left is a blooming tree with birds and a deer, while on the right is a rundown building with a vulture in a denuded tree, and an outhouse. Above the building, on the forced perspective of the road, is a faint sketch of a horse and wagon.