A Selection from the Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection

14 July–31 August 1982

Earle Ludgin had many ties to the University of Chicago. He was a Life Trustee, served on various Visiting Committees, including the Visiting Committee for the Visual Arts, and with his wife, Mary, amassed a large collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture which was recently bequeathed to the Smart Museum. A selection of the bequest was the subject of the exhibition A Selection from the Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection. The works shown include some by Ivan Albright, Milton Avery, Käthe Kollwitz, Alice Neel, and Henry Moore. Many of the paintings are representative of American Realism of the 1930s–1950s, while the prints and drawings typify aspects of European Expressionism and Surrealism. 

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