Title: Untitled (Milk Strainer) Artist: Mona Hatoum (1952- ) Nationality: Palestinian Date: 1996 Medium: Wax Paper Credit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Neal Meltzer; 2015.8.10. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander and Bonin Gallery. Curator Francis Morin invited Mona Hatoum to spend the summer of 1996 at the […]
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Title: Untitled, #49 Artist: Laura Letinsky (1962- ) Nationality: Canadian Date: 2002 Medium: Archival inkjet print Credit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, purchase funds contributed by Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross; 2014.1k Image Credit: Copyright by Laura Letinsky; February 27, 2015. Courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery Set in an interior space, a […]
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Title: Small Worlds III from the portfolio Kleine Welten (Small Worlds) Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (French, born Russia, 1866 – 1944) Year: 1922 Medium: Color lithograph on paper Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1985.136 Bringing together the wide-ranging fields of religion, music, color theory, and philosophy, the early-20th century painter and printmaker Wassily Kandinsky masterfully created some […]
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W. Eugene Smith, Jean Pearson (Theater Girl) series, 1949, gelatin silver print. Gift of Richard L. Sandor, 1986.1.158 I selected this W. Eugene Smith photograph from his 1949 Theatre Girl series. When I started to go through the collection online, I was drawn to the photographers, especially Smith. Smith was a Midwestern boy and a […]
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Staff at the Block Museum recently began sharing their favorite works from our collection with each other on a weekly basis. Now we’ve decided to let you in on the fun. Check back for new objects! Joshua Davis, Amoeba, from the series Once Upon a Forest, 2005, inkjet print. 2007.23. I chose this work from […]
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Staff at the Block Museum recently began sharing their favorite works from our collection with each other on a weekly basis. Now we’ve decided to let you in on the fun. Check back for a new object every week. April 2, 2012 Seymour Rosofsky, The Family, 1968, lithograph. Gift of the Estate of Seymour Rosofsky, […]
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Roy De Forest, The Campfire, 1993, lithograph. Gift of Thomas Deutsch, 1998.10.5. As the Museum’s registrar, I’ve seen everything in our collection. I wanted to pick an object that hasn’t been on exhibition yet to share with you and my colleagues. We have seven prints and one drawing by the artist Roy De Forest. All […]
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Honoré Daumier, a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and printmaker, is perhaps most widely recognized for his poignant social satires. Persistently chastising politicians, royalty, lawyers, and other types through his artwork, Daumier found his place in Parisian publishing firms as a prolific lithographer, working predominantly for Maison Aubert. The ability to quickly and inexpensively reproduce images through […]
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Jacob Lawrence is considered one of the most influential African American painters and printmakers of the 20th century. At the age of thirteen, Lawrence moved from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to New York City, where he began attending art classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, and later at the the Harlem Art Workshop and […]
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Carol Wax (American, b. 1953) is one of the foremost artists working in the medium of mezzotint printmaking. Mezzotint is a laborious form of intaglio printing in which the artist uses a metal tool with small teeth, commonly referred to as a “rocker,” to create pits, or burrs, on a metal plate that will hold […]
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