President, Stanford University
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Brushed by Sun and Sandstone: Stanford 2000 was commissioned as a tribute to President Gerhard Casper as the 9th President of Stanford University. The painting captures the imposing façade of the Bing Wing of the Cecil H. Green Library. Inspired by President Casper's eloquent remarks at the dedication of the Bing Wing, the artist celebrates the library as the cornerstone of a university's role as custodian of many cultures. The president told the Stanford community that it had been a goal to collect all "the books of all the peoples of the world as early as at the beginning of the third century B.C. by the Ptolemy kings of Egypt for the Museum in Alexandria." The Stanford experience and the university's commitment to diversity are indelibly distilled in the brushstrokes of Sumi-e, a 2000 year-old art form.
