Box 02

Scope and Contents Photographs, University Correspondence and EventsMainly correspondence related to Bela Petheo as a teacher. Also informal photos, a few St. John's University publications, and a few documents related to events at St. John's and elsewhere in Minnesota.Informal photos, all but one black and white, from 3 1/2 x 4 to 8 x 10. Includes one contact sheet. Bela Petheo in the studio, with students, with self-portraits, or at his Duluth show.Bela Petheo, Painter and...

Scope and Contents Bela Petheo: A Retrospective: Works between 1985-2000"Meet the artist as he comments on a selected group of works over a lifetime in the form of a guided tour. This retrospective attempts to survey fifteen years of creative efforts of Bela Petheo, a widely recognized painter, and former senior member of Saint John's University's art faculty, whose work was commented on by Oskar Kokoschka, Klaus Berger, Marcel Franciscono and Evan M. Maurer."Accompanied an exhibition...

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Posthumous Recognition, 2017-

Remembering Bela. Exhibition catalog for retrospective show at the Paramount Center for the Arts, St. Cloud, June 6-July 7, 2018. 2 copies.

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Bela Petheo, by J. Gray Sweeney, is a monograph on a painter who was an art professor at St. John's University.

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Miscellaneous students recommendations

Two letters of reference for art students, 1970; 1972.

Two letters concerning a possible exhibition of College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University faculty art at the Saint Paul Art Center, 1971-1972.

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Bela Petheo: a retrospective, 1985-2000 is an exhibition catalog.

Inserted: postcard inscribed by Bela Petheo to Jane [Opitz] and a sticky note signed "B." with "a recent self-portrait."

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Bela Petheo: 50+ drawings "was published by the Bloomington Center for the Arts to coincide with Mr. Petheo's retrospective exhibition: Themes and Variations: 1952-2008. This publication is independent from the show and it does not necessarily reproduce works exhibited there."

Introduction by Nathan Goldstein.