We took a moment to interview Elisa Quinlan, our new Director of Development and proud Northwestern alumna. In her role at the museum Elisa spearheads fundraising efforts and connects with our Board of Advisors to cultivate events. She also oversees gifts and acquisitions to the museum’s permanent collection. We asked her about her history in […]
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Pioneering software innovator Peter Norton has donated 68 contemporary artworks from his personal collection to Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, a transformative gift that includes a wide variety of media from more than four dozen internationally known artists.
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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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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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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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