Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language

15 May–18 June 1980

Sidra Stich, Washington University in St. Louis Professor of Art and Archaeology, was the first to discover a connection between Surrealist Joan Miró’s work and pre-historic cave drawings. Professor Stich organized this exhibition of 45 of Miró’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures from 1924-1956 around that theme. The exhibition is assembled from works in private collections in Chicago and St. Louis, and was co-sponsored by Washington University and the Smart Museum. A series of lectures was planned in conjunction with the exhibition.

Curator: Sidra Stich, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis

Funding was provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Missouri Arts Council, and the Illinois Arts Council. 

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