Exhibitions Archived in: 1983

Poetry on the Wind: The Art of Chinese Folding Fans from the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties

6 January–20 February 1983

The Chinese fan is a genre to itself. Fans were painted by masters of the technique and are embellished with gold leaf paper, paintings of landscapes, rocks, figures, and flowers, and are often complemented by elaborate calligraphy. The exhibition of 74 fans from the 15th through the 18th centuries at... more »

Medieval and Renaissance Ceramics from the Kassebaum Collection

10 March–24 April 1983

The Kassebaum collection, which consists of over 400 ceramics, has been assembled over the past several decades by John Phillip Kassebaum, Honorary Curator of Ceramics at the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, and is regarded as the foremost private collection of ceramics in the... more »

Max Ernst: Books and Graphic Work

12 May–15 June 1983

Max Ernst, German Surrealist and Dadaist, is best recognized for his dissonant images of larger-than-life objects and human bodies with animal heads. He influenced younger Surrealist artists like Jean Dubuffet, Salvador Dali, and René Magritte. He was also an accomplished printmaker, and more than 200 pieces of his graphic work... more »

Saul Steinberg: Drawings and Watercolors from the Hallmark Collection and The American Comic Strip

20 July–31 August 1983

Saul Steinberg, career cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, has 25 original drawings from the 1950s and 1960s on display at the Gallery. The drawings, which combine fine art complexity with cartoon whimsy, were originally purchased by the Hallmark Company for greeting card and calendar design. The accompanying exhibition, The... more »

New Image/Pattern and Decoration from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection

6 October–4 December 1983

New Image/Pattern and Decoration highlighted a variety of avant-garde paintings collected by a Chicago family, demonstrating the important role played by private collections in the creation of artistic styles and trends. The exhibition explores two distinctive sensibilities that have developed, in part, as reactions to the stark minimalist or non-figurative... more »

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