Gonzaga's Jundt Art Museum Online Exhibition

The Jundt Art Museum presents Deep Dive: An Exploration of Images of Water from the Permanent Collection of the Jundt Art Museum. Featuring more than 30 pieces, all the artworks deal with an aspect of water. One of the five essential elements, according to Eastern philosophy, water constitutes everything in this world. In science, the inorganic substance composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom allows for all lifeforms' existence. In literature, water represents various concepts like purity, fertility, energy, motion, renewal, metamorphosis, and transformation. This senior thesis exhibition has pieces from the 17th to the 21st centuries and contains works by notable artists like Glen E. Alps, Harold Balazs, Bernard Brussel-Smith, Ambrose Patterson, and John Wilson. 

This virtual display presents the works in respective categories that embody some ways water plays into our lives in hopes that viewers will recognize the importance and beauty that water has in one's life.