The Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc

WisconScene
The Current July 2015. Page 9
The Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc
by Rodney Schroeter
for the Current
On Sunday morning, June 21, I
visited the Wings & Wheels exhibit
at the Sheboygan County Memorial
Airport. After gathering over a hundred photos of wings, wheels, and
propellers, I was in the mood for a
different kind of propeller, so I drove
up to Manitowoc. Destination: The
Rahr-West Art Museum.
The primary reason for my visit
was an exhibit of paintings with a
submarine theme. As director Greg
Vadney writes in a brochure for the
museum:
“A View from the Periscope is
traveling to us from the U. S. Navy’s
Art Collection. This unique exhibit
features over a
century of artists’
renderings of naval submarines.
The Rahr-West
was selected to
exhibit this collection due to Manitowoc’s history as
a naval shipbuilder during World
War II.”
Twenty-eight
submarines were
built in Manitowoc during World
War II.
The brochure also says that the
Navy Art Collection “includes over
20,000 paintings, prints, drawings,
and engravings consisting of naval
ships, personnel, and actions from
The item on display
is a replica, because
American officials
offered the actual
piece to the Soviets
(after making the
replica).
A View from the
Periscope will be
part of the first
annual Subfest in Manitowoc,
July
10
through
12. Activities
include scheduled events at
the Wisconsin Maritime
Museum; four
all eras of U. S. naval history.”
Remember
the ending of the
first Indiana Jones
movie? The warehouse? That’s the
kind of image the
above
statement
conjures
up
in my mind. I
wouldn’t mind
being allowed
to browse that
collection, for
about a year or
two.
A
View
from the Periscope will be
on display at Rahr-West until midSeptember of 2015.
Worthwhile as that exhibit is (as I
hope the photos here suggest), RahrWest has more to offer. Part of the
museum is “The Mansion,” a home
built in the early 1890s. Works of art
are on display throughout this mansion—not only paintings, but carved
ivory, dolls, porcelains, and items
from Manitowoc’s sister city in Japan, Kamogawa.
Also on display in the museum is
a replica of debris from Sputnik IV,
which crashed to the Earth on September 5, 1962. A 20-pound chunk
hit the street just outside where the
museum now stands, and is marked.
submarine movies at the Capitol
Civic Centre; live music; fireworks;
and sidewalk sales in the downtown
blocks.
The movies, which are scheduled
to run all three days of this event, are:
Legacy of Lagarto (2009 documentary)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
On Friday afternoon, July 10, Jim
Bates, who appeared in Run Silent,
Run Deep, will introduce the movie.
After the screening, he will answer
questions. This movie starred Burt
Lancaster and Clark Gable, and was
directed by Robert Wise (who also
directed The Sound of Music and
The Andromeda Strain). The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) lists
Jimmy Bates as one of the cast, playing “Jessie (uncredited).” A glance at
Bates’ other credits shows he had a
varied career as a TV actor, appearing in The Real
McCoys, Lassie,
Dennis the Menace, The Farmer’s
Daughter,
and
The Man from
U.N.C.L.E. being
just a few.
The Rahr-West
Museum is open
10 a.m to 4 p.m.,
Tuesday through
Friday; 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday. It’s
closed Monday.
Rahr-West Art Museum:
rahrwestartmuseum.org
Wisconsin Maritime Museum:
wisconsinmaritime.org
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