Tag: Collection Spotlight

Collection Spotlight: Peasant Couple Dancing, Sebald Beham

Bynublockmuseum February 3, 2020 0 Comments
Title: Peasant Couple DancingArtist: Sebald Beham (German, 1500–50)Year: 1522Medium: Engraving on paperDimensions: 3 1/4 in x 2 inCredit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, The Norman H. and Marie Louise Pritchard Collection,1985.2.99 In an image that is only the size of a couple of postage stamps, the sixteenth-century artist Sebald Beham creates a compelling...

Collection Spotlight: Skeeter, Catherine Opie

Bynublockmuseum November 6, 2019 0 Comments
Title: Skeeter Artist: Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) Date: 1993 Medium: Chromogenic print Edition: 5 of 8 Dimensions: 40 x 30 in. Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Armyan Bernstein and Christine Meleo Bernstein, 2018.9. Reproduced with permission from the artist. Skeeter; Sunflowers; Sunrise “A lot of my friends were fighting AIDS or dying. And...

Collection Spotlight: To Survive on This Shore by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre

Bynublockmuseum June 11, 2019 0 Comments
Title: To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults Artists: Jess T. Dugan (b. 1986) and Vanessa Fabbre (b. 1978) Nationality: American Date: 2018 Medium: Portfolio of 12 color photograph prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Photo Rag Pearl and 12 text panels on Canson Edition Etching Rag Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,...

Collection Spotlight: Pocahontas, 1976, Marisol

Bynublockmuseum December 17, 2018 0 Comments
Marisol (Marisol Escobar) (American, born in France, 1930-2016) Pocahontas 1976 Color lithograph Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Paul S. D'Amato, LS 1985.3.8  Image © 2018 Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Marisol was a Venezuelan-American sculptor active in the 1960s and 1970s pop art movement. Born Maria Sol Escobar, she shortened...

Collection Spotlight: Girl with Earring, 1961/1962, Milton Rogovin

Bynublockmuseum November 12, 2018 0 Comments
Milton Rogovin (American, 1909-2011) Girl with Earring from the series East Side, Buffalo, New York 1961/1962 Silver gelatin print Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Purchase, 2000.25.16 Image reproduced courtesy of The Rogovin Collection, Forest Park, Illinois Milton Rogovin was a documentary photographer best known for his work focusing...

Collection Spotlight: Flamenco, Ed Paschke

Bynublockmuseum October 8, 2018 0 Comments
Ed Paschke (American, 1939–2004) Flamenco, 1991 Eight-color screenprint Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, purchase funds provided by Leigh and Henry Bienen, Sarah Pritchard and Neal Blair, and Lori and Ted Souder, 2008.22 Flamenco is a screenprint by well-known Chicago artist Ed Paschke. Paschke was trained at the School of the Art Institute (BFA 1961, MFA 1970), and...

Collection Spotlight: P-049 Formal Language, IRI = 2, 1970, 1979, Manfred Mohr

Bynublockmuseum August 6, 2018 0 Comments
Title: P-049 Formal Language, IRI = 2, 1970, 1979 Artist: Manfred Mohr, b. 1938 Nationality: German Date: Drawn 1979 Medium or technique: Plotter drawing, ink on paper Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2007.22.1. Scattered with nonsensical, crisp, geometric forms, Manfred Mohr’s plotter drawing, P-049 Formal Language, IRI = 2, 1970, 1979, looks like a...

Collection Spotlight: Constellation Exhibit 1959, Joan Miró

Bynublockmuseum April 30, 2018 0 Comments
Title: Constellation Exhibit 1959 Artist: Joan Miró Nationality: Spanish Date: 1959 Medium or technique: Color lithograph Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1993.49, Copyright: © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In 1919, Joan Miró relocated from his native Spain to France, where he became associated with the Surrealist...

Collection Spotlight: Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe

Bynublockmuseum March 7, 2018 0 Comments
Title: Patti Smith Artist: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) Nationality: American Date: 1986 Medium: Gelatin Silver print Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, 2015.7.3   Singer and poet Patti Smith was one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s earliest and most frequent photographic subjects, and over two decades he took many photographs of...