Tuesday Edition: Jane Mount

Good day, collectors! It's Sara, writing from sunny, snowy Colorado. I flew the coop for the holiday and Jen's on a flight right this very second. She's southbound for all the festivities of Basel Miami, the stateside art fair extravaganza. Jeffrey Teuton, Associate Director of the JB Gallery is in tow, and I'm perched here in the high country until my return to NYC tomorrow. Knowing that daylight would bring a scattered 20x200 team, Jen and I worked out the details of today's introduction to Jane Mount's 132 Birds Leaving the AMNH (response to Jason Polan) in the wee hours of the morning over IM:

1:14 AM
Jen: sorry
i'm warning you right now
that you might be pressed into newsletter service for tomorrow
me: ok, thanks for the head's up
Jen: jane's tomorrow
so you could like, link to flavorwire

1:15 AM
Jen: it could be a funny email about everyone in airplanes
ACTUALLY
haha
this is the seed of the newsletter right here
because the birds are leaving AMNH
we're all flying
me: everyone leaving NYC
Jen: every one of us!
me leaving, jane coming, you coming back a day later
the thrilla starting
all of us heading out to sf, migrating west
me: we're a very confused flock
Jen: oh it's something else
yes
and jane and jason are nesting in the gallery all week
me: global warming (why we're so confused)
Jen: while I'm out foraging
me: I think you could write it right now

1:17 AM
Jen: i think we just wrote part of it
this transcript will come in handy for you tomorrow
you know IM newsletters are almost as popular as birds on 20x200
and you can quote me on that :D
me: I just might

Since our thoughts at 1:00 a.m. might not be as clear and succinct or as funny as we think they are, it's a good thing Jen and I have already done a little writing about Ms. Mount and these birds. Jen gave a glowing introduction to Jane and her work back when we released Bookshelf 29 and Bookshelf 20 and I previously penned 132 words about why we love Jane and our friend Jason Polan for Flavorwire.

All of you in NYC will likewise have the opportunity to know and love and Jane and Jason as they'll be holding down the JB Gallery in Jen and Jeffrey's absence and hosting a draw-a-thon, Thrilla in Manila, to benefit the non-profit 826NYC, this week, starting tomorrow! Jane is likely crossing jet-streams with Ms. Bekman this a.m. as she flies home herself to warm up her drawing arm to duke it out with Jason.

It was, in fact, this painting by Jane that inspired the Thrilla in Manila meeting of the minds, and pens and pencils. She loved Jason's 132 Birds at the American Museum of Natural History so much that she decided to paint them a day of freedom from the museum. Painstakingly, she re-rendered each one of the birds Jason drew... with a couple exceptions. She knows and we know where the sleeping dogs (or birds, in this case) lie but do you? It'll take a keen eye, so Jane's included a key for you to download here and decipher the difference.

If you're the first to figure out which bird joined the flock and which one fled, Jane will send you a small, original painting. Email artist at 20x200 dot com asap and we'll see who's in the running. One hint: the turkey talk is over, it's not the little guy that became an adult that we're looking for!

So download, study, and seek for your chance to receive a lovely little painting by Ms. Mount. This contest isn't the only surprise we have in store for the coming weeks. As mentioned, Thrilla in Manila will be going on at the gallery, tomorrow through Saturday, with a benefit reception for 826NYC concluding the event next Monday, December 8th from 6-8 p.m. at 6 Spring Street. And, yes if you deduced that we're all bound for the West Coast, you were right, but know that we'll still be here, in newsletter-land, with great goodies for you. Jen, of course, will be back in spite of her southern migration, tomorrow, with this week's photography offerings.

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