The Virginia National Bank /NEWS
RELEASE
February 28, 1979 |
CANADIAN-AMERICAN PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Bob
Sutton
by Mary Beth Patterson, Public Relations Officer |
NORFOLK, Virginia-
A display of black and white abstract photography will
be shown in Virginia National Bank's continuing program of artistic and
photographic exhitbits.
The exhibit, a Canadian-American Portfolio of Photography
by Bob Sutton will be on display during the month of March.
Mr. Sutton has been hailed by critics and artists alike
as having"a most sensitive eye creating an aesthetic purity of images."
He has studied the teaching of such notable photographers as Adams, Jacobs,
Vestal and many others.
Mr. Sutton finds his subjects close at hand: the planes
of a wall, an ironing board, a light bulb reflector. Dorothy Knowles, noted
Canadian artist says, "Fine images in a good new direction..... I like
what I see."
The exhibit of over 20 pieces of photography may be viewed
weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Friday evenings until 6:00 p.m.
at Virginia National's headquarters building in downtown Norfolk. |
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A proud Bob Sutton ( R.W. Sutton) with his blue ribbon award for
first place in photography, Stockey Gardens Ghent Art Show, 1979.
Daddy's photograph on the far left is a black and white photo taken from
a detail of a handmade quilt by his daughter Carol Sutton. The lower photo
subject is an art deco style ceiling lamp, which he always admired from
the Smith & Welton Department Store Main floor on Granby Street, Norfolk,
Virginia. Above is the blue ribbon. Next to it is a title work 'Bob Sutton'
with corner photo taken by his daughter Carol Sutton of Robert Sutton with
his camera and below is a text plaque of critics comments.
The
church in the background is where Bob Sutton son, Robert Porter Sutton married
Marcia Shipp. An extra note, Robert William Sutton and Nancy Chester Sustare
Sutton lived at 709 Stockley Gardens in an apartment as a young married
couple.
Daddy is holding one of his black and white photographs.
Date: June or July of 1979.
Place: Stockley Gardens, Ghent, Norfolk, Norfolk County,
Virginia, U.S.A.
Photograph by: Carol Sutton, daughter of photographer Bob
Sutton.
Title :
DoNut dinette founder obit, where Robert W Sutton, photographed 'stack
of plates'black & white, 1977 by Carol Sutton , Jan 18, 2003
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Categories: INDIVIDUAL FAMILY NEWS (i.e., Graduation, Birthday or Marriage, etc.),
OBITUARIES, SUTTON HISTORIES
Hi. This obit was found by luck on Jan 18 2003. It
is the obituary of the founder of a Norfolk, Virginia landmark,
© December 29, 2002
NORFOLK -- Ruby Schneider Massengill used to call it ``a dinky little
place.''
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- This
local stop was on the route my father, Robert William
Sutton, drove almost each work day, from Lockhaven, on Hampton Boulevard,
down Colley Avenue, and then on to Onley Road, ending up at Sutton Manufacturing Corporation,
at 112 West Wilson Avenue. Dad knew Ruby for sure, as he was a local and
loyal customer for over 25 years at the DoNut Dinette.
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- Once with his Nikon camera, Dad took a wonderful
shot from where he sat on his chosen vinyl morning stool [ 1 of the 15
described in the obit article], of what he usually stared at - the stack
of plates on the stainless steel shelf. This simple everyday object done
in black and white photograph, is in the tradition of art still life photograph,
such as those done by Joseph Sudek, the famous Czechoslovakian photographer.
Like him {Sudek} my Dad, "Red"
Sutton, was committed to photographing the
close world around him, the world he bumped into each day, his own first
hand experiences, and by the genius of his vision he took the ordinary
things things he saw, in this case the stack of white plates in his local
breakfast stop, the DoNut Dinette, and transformed this humus into
photographic art with depth and feeling. A sort of quest for the ordinary.
{Read film critic/ philosopher - book: 'In Quest for The Ordinary-
Lines of Skepticism AND Romanticism', by Stanley Cavell; University
of Chicago Press, 1988}
-
- I think that this 'Stack
of white plates - DoNut Dinnette' photographed by
Dad probably around 1977, was once shown in his exhibition at the Chrysler
Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. It was included for sure in the local
bank show, at Virginia National Bank , that was written about.
- See link: Virginia National Bank/News Release on Photographic Exhibition
of Robert William Sutton's Portfolio,February 28,1979
+
Virginia
National Bank/News Release on Photographic Exhibition of Robert William
Sutton's Portfolio,February 28,1979
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/photo_rw_sutton.html |
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- I
have a web link up to a page of this exhibition review in my small family
site in yahoo.[Note: Joseph Sudek, was was working in the poetic
tradition of Eugene Atget.
- Article: 'Josef Sudek's- Theater of Objects', by Jean Dykstra,
from: Art on Paper Magazine, page 33, Volume 4 No. 1, September-October
1999. - Special on Photography issue.]
-
-
- Another link between photography and the DoNut Dinette
is that the current owner Sheila Mullins has a sort of in house exhibit
of photo shots taken by various local artists of the place hanging up inside
the cafe. Some are the DoNut Dinette, from the outside view of the diner
on Colley Avenue, while others are photographs taken on the inside of the
restaurant.
-
- I took a few myself in May of 2002, and mailed them to
Susan Mullins recently December of 2002/ or early Jan 2003. Mine were an
echo of what my Father Robert had shot twenty or thirty years earlier;
chose if not almost identical as the view was virtually unchanged as it
was described by FRED KIRSCH in his article. Mine were in color, and Dad's
were in black and white. At least I thought so until I got back to my studio
in Toronto, Ontario, and upon looking at Dad's plates shelf photo I thought
that Dad's are superior to mine, as his hold that magic just right vision,
the contrast of the black under shelf bracket weighed in as a counter point
to the stack of grey white plate edges. I also did a few portraits of Sheila,
taken while she was at work making a supply order; sitting on one of the
now famous stools.
-
- Anyway, here is the link and the text to the obituary
of Ruby Schneider Massengill, mother of Sheila 'Lynne'
S. Mullins, current owner and president of T/A DoNut Dinette
of Norfolk, Virginia.
- Added POST NOTE: {Now added to SUTTON?DAVIS SITE:}
-
- I do not think that my father, Robert William Sutton was influenced
by Joseph Sudek. At least I never heard Dad speak of Sudek's work and I
can't remember talking about Sudek with my father.
-
- Dad probably knew of his photographs from various photographic journals
that he subscribed to; but Sudek was not widely touted in the 1970's.
-
- I came into contact with knowledge of Joseph Seduk's photographic work
via my ex art dealer in New York City, Salander/ O'Reilly. Now run
by Lawrence Salander and William Edward O'Reilly, who exhibit Seduk's photographs.
by Carol Lorraine Sutton, January 19, 2003.
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- URL:http://www.pilotonline.com/obits/nw1229mas.html
- News > Obituaries
Post Script: Doyenne of dinette made doughnuts and lasting friends
By FRED KIRSCH, The Virginian-Pilot
© December 29, 2002
- NORFOLK -- Ruby Schneider Massengill used to call it
``a dinky little place.''
- When she and her first husband bought into the Do-Nut
Dinette in 1961, there were no
- booths, no tables. Just an ancient yellow Formica counter
and 15 stools.
- In the 23 years Ruby owned the eatery on Colley Avenue,
she never changed anything.
- Not the color of those pale green walls. Not that counter
where grooves began to form from customers'
- elbows. And certainly not how she made those glazed donuts
- dripping with tons of sugar or her fried chicken, the
Thursday special.
- She might not have changed the place, but Ruby transformed
it: into a Norfolk landmark. Thousands of
- customers, from dockworkers to doctors, hunkered down
on those shiny stools. Most of them, like Ernie Johnson, just kept coming
back. `It was more than the atmosphere and
- food that made it special,'' said Johnson, who became
an ``instant regular'' after his first visit years ago.
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- ``She made every person who walked in feel like they
meant something to her.''
- Ruby Schneider Massengill, 80, died Monday of pneumonia.
A native of Alabama, Ruby and Ken
- Schneider, who died in 1975, were working to raise a
family that would grow to six children when they took over the tiny diner
on the north edge of Ghent.
-
- Jean and Herb Johnston, now in their 70s, had already
been regulars for years by then. ``She was the glue who held it together,''
said Jean Johnston. ``She'd be in at 4:30 to make
- the doughnuts. And they had to be perfect -- `like a
picture,' she'd say. She made breakfast
- and the lunch special. If the help didn't show up, she
worked the counter.''
-
- But no matter how busy she was, the little woman in
- the white apron always had time to tell a customer the
latest joke.
- ``Most were clean, but she would have to lean over and
whisper a couple,'' said Bucky
- Parker, a 40-year regular.
-
- Customers loved the place so much that when Ruby,
- who later married Bill Massengill, decided to sell the
place, one of them bought it, fearing it
- would change. In 1987, Ruby's daughter, Sheila Mullins
bought the place back. Not many days went by over the past 15
- years that Ruby didn't drop in to put on her apron on
and make the doughnuts.
- Yesterday, the day of Ruby's funeral, the Do-Nut Dinette
was open for breakfast. ``She
- would have liked that,'' said Herb Johnston.
-
FROM:
Obituaries articles
· Death notices for Sunday - Dec. 29, 2002
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Attachments: { 4 LINKS}
- CANADIAN-AMERICAN PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Bob Sutton {That
is this page.}
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- Cavell,
Stanley-In Quest of the Ordinary- book-at:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/2976.ctl
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- Doyenne
of dinette made doughnuts and lasting friends By FRED KIRSCH, The Virginian-Pilot
, currently {Jan 2003} online at:http://www.pilotonline.com/obits/nw1229mas.html}
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- Josef
Sudek, Still Lifes, ©all photograph images , at:http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/josefsudek/index.htm
or http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/
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- Joseph
Sudek(1896-1976) , biography at: http://astro.temple.edu/~marnie/sudek/biography.html
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L.,descendent of Thaddeus S. Sutton and Martha J. Norman
Thadeus Sutton[1844-1906] and
Martha J. Norman[1847-1921] - My
Great- Great-Grandparents
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SEE LEAD PAGES ABOVE FOR LINKS to:
Thaddeus S. Sutton --Martha J. Norman ( 10 children)-My Great- Great-Grandparents
SUTTON LINE: Thaddeus S. Sutton (4), (George
J. Sutton (3), John N. Sutton (2), Cornelius Sutton (1) &
NORMAN LINE: Martha J. Norman (6), Seymore
Norman (5) , James Norman Sr.( 4) [& Mary Nedley], John Norman (3 [&
Lydia Brown], James Norman (2), {& unknown wife] England, James Norman
(1) (abt 1678, Holbrook, Duffield, Derby, England,
+
Dakota Territories that became North and South Dakota-1860
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/dakota_territories_1860.html
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Distribution of SUTTON surname on 1850 & 1880 US Census Map
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/sutton_disp_census1850.html
Cornelius Sutton - Elizabeth Applegate,
(11 children) My 5th Great-Grandparents
John N. Sutton - Rachel Davis (12 children)
My 4th Great-Grandparents
George J. Sutton -- Eleanor Davis
(George had 10 children) My 3rd Great-Grandparents
Thaddeus S. Sutton --Martha J. Norman
( 10 children)-My Great- Great-Grandparents
James E. Sutton, ("Mack")---Alvertie
M. Queen. My Great-Grandparents
Porter Odry Sutton--Margaret Lorine Crocker-My -Grandparents
Robert William Sutton--Nancy Chester
Sustare- My parents
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Twelve Children of my GreatGGG Grandfather
John N. Sutton & my GreatGGG Grandmother Rachel Davis & their grandchildren
are listed on this page.
SUTTON LINE: John N. Sutton (2), Cornelius
Sutton Sr. (1) &
DAVIS LINE: Rachael Davis 5, William 4 ,T.
William 3, John 2, William1)
John N.Sutton,Rachel Davis & children data by Carol L.Sutton
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/john_rachel_sutton_child.html |
The generation prior to Thaddeus Sutton
George Johnson Sutton [1808-1845], who married Eleanor Davis [1812-1892]
had 11 children, parents of Thadeus Sutton[1844-1906]
-My 3rd
Great-Grandparents
SUTTON LINE: George J. Sutton (3), John N.
Sutton (2), Cornelius Sutton Sr. (1) &
DAVIS LINE: Eleanor Davis (6) (, Rachael Davis
5, William 4 ,T. William 3, John 2, William1)
George J. Sutton, 1808-1845,married 1830 to Eleanor Davis,1812-1892,in
Harrison Country, Salem, West Virginia.
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/george_j_sutton_e_davis.html |
James Edward Sutton, ("Mack") [1869-1954]
& Alvertie M. Queen [1873-1959] My Great-Grandparents
SUTTON LINE: James Edward Sutton, ("Mack")
5, Thaddeus S. Sutton (4), George J. Sutton (3), John N. Sutton (2), Cornelius
Sutton (1) &
QUEEN LINE: Alvertie M. Queen (6) , James
Pritchard Queen (5) & Angeline Bean, William Burrell Queen (4) &
Sarah Catherine Pritchard , Levi Queen (3)& Catherine Coburn , Charles
W. Queen Jr.(2) & Mary Haley, Charles Queen or MacQueen 1, {1)
Second page: James E. Mack Sutton & Alvertie Queen + ,Porter
Odry Sutton & Margaret Lorine Crocker; + Robert W. Sutton and Chester
Sustare
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/sutton-james_porter.html |
Porter Odry Sutton [1896-1962] & Margaret Lorine
Croker [1898-1930] My Grandparents & parents
of Robert William Sutton
SUTTON LINE: Porter Odry Sutton 6,
James Edward Sutton, ("Mack") (5), Thaddeus
S. Sutton (4), George J. Sutton (3), John N. Sutton (2), Cornelius Sutton
(1) &
CROCKER LINE: Margaret Lorine Croker 3, Rufus
Webb Crocker, Captain 2, Capt. David Crocker or Croker 1
Newspaper Article- P. O. Sutton, Engineer, Also Interior Decorator,
July 8, 1959, my paternal grandfather-
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/porter_odry_sutton.html
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Memories and genealogy notes on Porter Odry Sutton, my paternal
grandfather-at:
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/porter_odry_sutton2.html |
Father Robert William Sutton [1918-1995] , who married
Nancy Chester Sustare [1920-1997]
Obituaries- Robert William Sutton, "Red" or "Bob"
76, of Norfolk, an industralist, died Monday, February 13, 1995
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/robert_william_sutton.html
SUTTON LINE: Robert William Sutton 7, Porter
Odry Sutton (6), James Edward Sutton,
("Mack") (5), Thaddeus S. Sutton (4), George J. Sutton (3), John
N. Sutton (2), Cornelius Sutton (1) &
SUSTARE LINE (Sistare): Nancy Chester Sustare
7, Beverly T. Sutstare (6) & Clara Nannie Williams, Barnum Alexander
Sustare (5) & Sarah Amanda Ferguson , James Hiram Richardson
Sustare (4) & Holly Elizabeth Hemby, John Thomas Sistare (3) & Mary
Gwendolyn "Polly" Outen, Captain Lazaro Jose Gabriel Sustare Jr.
(2) & Elizabeth Beebe, Don Gabriel Sistare Sr. (1) & Marie Mitzavila
or Mityavila, from Spain.
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Virginia National Bank/News Release on Photographic Exhibition
of Robert William Sutton's Portfolio,February 28,1979
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/photo_rw_sutton.html |
WAY BACK WHEN: Cornelius Sutton Sr. [1750-1850] , who
married Elizabeth Applegate [1758-1789]; parents of John N. Sutton [1785-1857],
who married Rachel (Ruth) Davis [1792-1853], who were parents of George
Johnson Sutton. Mystery
man CORNELIUS SUTTON BY CAROL SUTTON-http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/cornelius_sutton.html |
Sutton family buried in Blandville,Doddridge Co.,WV Cemetery, Middle
Island 7th Day Baptist
http://www.carolsutton.net/sutton-geno/sutton_middle_island_cemet.html |
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Main
Sustare
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Nancy Chester Sustare Sutton |
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