Creator Record

Metadata

Name

Lyons, Beauvais

Other names

E.O. Hokes

Life Dates

b. 1958
Hanover, NH

Nationality

American

Geographic location(s)

Knoxville, TN
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Occupation

Printmaker
UT Professor

Notes

Artist Statement: "For the past four decades I have created academic parody in a variety of mediums. For much of this time I fabricated and documented imaginary cultures. More recently I have been interested in biography, folk art, medicine, zoology and circuses. My lithographs are influenced by plates from old encyclopedias, the novellas of Jorge Luis Borges, 18th-century science, 19th-century printing, natural history museums, mirrors and lenses, anthrospheres, wunderkammers, and various forms of neglected scholarship. I prize the vernacular history of art. I prefer the facsimile to the original, and the imaginary to the real. I believe history is a work of fiction."

Role

Artist

Related Records

2015.1.1 - Print
Colophon for the portfolio, "Drawn from the McClung Museum," 2014, archival inkjet print by Beauvais Lyons. Edition: 1/30

Record Type: Object
2015.1.17 - Print
"Goatman Pottery," 2014, from the portfolio "Drawn from the McClung Museum," lithograph by Beauvais Lyons. Edition: 1/30. Designed in response to McClung Museum object: 1936.4.1657, glazed earthenware pitcher of man-goat. Artist statement: I selected this unusual earthenware pitcher because of its "goat-man" subject. In addition, the form is so exaggerated, with an absolutely crazy handle, and it is hard for me to imagine anyone ever usin...

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.1 - Portfolio
Portfolio edition number 4 of 8. Individual prints are editioned between 20 and 30 impressions. Each print includes a rubber stamp of the Association for Creative Zoology emblem in blue or green with the edition number. The portfolio is comprised of nine prints, a title page, text page and seven prints of ornithological quadrupeds. The portfolio includes hand printed end-papers depicting hybrid animals, and a screenprinted cover. .1Title Pa...

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.10 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/30, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.2 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/20. Collected and Compiled by Reverend James Randolph Denton; Lithographed in Four Colours by Everitt Ormsby Hokes; A Publication of The Association for Creative Zoology; London & Philadelphia MCMXXIV.

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.3 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/15.

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.4 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.5 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/29, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.6 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.7 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/30, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.8 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/22, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object
2020.1.1.9 - Print
From the portfolio Ornithological Quadrupeds; Association for Creative Zoology, edition 4/8. Print edition 4/28, signed in stone: "E.O. Hokes."

Record Type: Object