Exhibitions Archived in: 1987

Print Exhibition: Prints by Käthe Kollwitz, 1919-1938

22 January–8 March 1987

Käthe Kollwitz saw art as a means to an end, never as art for art’s sake. She hoped that her work, executed in the democratic medium of the inexpensive large-edition print, would evoke social change in her native Germany. Many of her works were inspired by specific social and often... more »

Russia, The Land, The People: Russian Painting, 1850-1910

22 January–8 March 1987

The exhibition consisted of more than sixty canvases from the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century drawn from two major museums of the USSR – the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Leningrad. Embodied in these paintings are... more »

Japanese Quest for a New Vision: The Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters, 1600-1900

26 March–3 May 1987

Japanese Quest for a New Vision: The Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters 1600-1900 explored the cultural interaction between China and Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the 18th century, a growing number of artists outside the traditional painting schools sought new forms of artistic expressions. Though trade sanctions... more »

Print Exhibition: La Caricature and the French July Monarchy

15 May–30 June 1987

La Caricature, a journal founded by Charles Philipon emerged on November 4, 1830 in response to the freedom of the press promised by King Louis-Philippe and the July Monarchy. Philipon recognized the value of caricature in conveying his political views and he chose the medium of lithography, invented as recently... more »

Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963-1973

15 May–30 June 1987

This exhibition of more than 80 paintings, photographs, and sculpture portraying the Civil Rights Movement features more than 50 artists, whose works were profoundly affected by the turmoil and unrest that characterized the Sixties. The exhibit also includes anti-war and feminist artists whose own movements were influenced by the ideals... more »

EV, An Evocation of Ottoman Turkey

21 June–16 August 1987

EV, An Evocation of Ottoman Turkey, is designed to evoke the spirit of Istanbul, from two differing points of view; European topographical images of the city from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and the Turkish self-image projected by the illustrations in one famous manuscript in the Topkapi Sarayi Palace... more »

Post-war Czechoslovakian Printmakers in the Permanent Collection

15 July–30 August 1987

During and after World War II, cultural ties between the West and Czechoslovakia were cut, with the result that many of Czechoslovakia’s artists did not benefit from the sweeping changes in the mainstream of modern art during the 1940s and 1950s. However, those times were re-established in the mid-1960s by... more »

MFA Show 1987

16 July–30 August 1987

Eleven Master of Fine Arts graduates of Midway Studios of the University of Chicago exhibited their work in the annual MFA Show. The artists on view are Anne Binford, John Brunetti, Elizabeth Carrera, Koni Fujiwara, Dan K. Harris, Johnna Marcil, Tom Morris, Ann Schaefer, Julie Schnatz, J. Vincent Shine, and... more »

Print and Drawing Exhibition: Survey of Master Prints

Autumn 1987

This exhibition of prints ranging from the 16th through the 20th centuries featured artists from all regions of Europe, including Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, Pablo Picasso, and Käthe Kollwitz. The exhibition was coordinated with Professor Edward Maser’s... more »

The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists' Works, 1958-1987

4 October–6 December 1987

Roger Brown, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum, who were students together at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created a visual style that came to be known as Chicago Imagism. Chicago Imagism is characterized... more »

Print Exhibition: Illinois Prints, 1950-1987

6 October–6 December 1987

Vera Berdich, Phyllis Bramson, Roland Ginzel, Leon Golub, Richard Hull, Ellen Lanyon, June Leaf, and Dan Ramirez, represent a sampling of the diversity of printmaking in Illinois since World War II. While these artists are outside the tradition of Chicago Imagism themselves, each of them lived in Chicago at one... more »

Blossoms from the Desert: Three Centuries of Rajput Painting

6 October–6 December 1987

The Rajput were the ruling Indian warrior class who divided their territory into small princely states. Although there are broad stylistic differences in the paintings produced by these separate states, they have important features in common, including their use of vivid colors and exclusive use of religious subject matter. An... more »

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