Recently I was given four pictures that were copies of original paintings that needed to be housed in custom built portfolios. We have a wide variety of sizes of portfolios but none that would fit. I don’t mind making custom portfolios as they are fairly quick to construct and look professionally made.
But this wasn’t the first time I had seen the portrait of Petrina Jackson, Head of the Special Collections and University Archives here at Iowa State University. Last August while I was at the Iowa State Fair Petrina and Eric Schares, Science & Technology Librarian, had their portraits painted on site by artist Rose Frantzen of Maquoketa at the university’s state fair exhibit booth in the Varied Industries Building while people strolled by. The completed paintings themselves become a part of the university’s booth exhibit. I had stopped by the day Petrina was having her painting made and chatted with her for a moment while Rose painted away and does a nice job of capturing the individuals on canvas. So five months later I see the completed painting.
And it’s a perfect custom fit!
Library and Archives Preservation 