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2012 and Before

1980-2012 Block Museum Exhibition List

 

Year

Title

Start Date

End Date

2012

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 1/17/12 4/8/12
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 5/4/12 6/17/12
The Immortal Art Project 5/10/12 8/26/12
Art on Paper: Prints, Drawings and Photographs from the Block Museum 5/11/12 8/26/12
Fluids: A Happening by Allan Kaprow Reinvented by Art Theory & Practice 5/21/12 5/21/12

2011

Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England 1/14/11 3/13/11
The Satirical Edge in Contemporary Prints and Graphics 1/14/11 3/13/11
Social Mobility: Collaborative Projects with Temporary Services 4/8/11 8/14/11
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith 4/8/11 8/14/11
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 5/6/11 6/19/11
Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons 9/20/11 12/4/11
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917 9/23/11 12/11/11

2010

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections 1/15/10 3/14/10
The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver 1480-1650 4/9/10 6/20/10
Engraving the Ephemeral 4/20/10 6/20/10
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 5/4/10 6/20/10
Land Without End and Other Works by Theo Leffmann 7/9/10 8/29/10
Leon Golub: Live and Die Like a Lion? 9/24/10 12/12/10
Shirin Neshat: Rapture 9/24/10 12/12/10

2009

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe 1/13/09 4/5/09
From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings from the Prado 1/23/09 4/5/09
Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks 4/24/09 6/28/09
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 5/8/09 6/21/09
Place and Presence: Photography from the Collection 7/9/09 8/30/09
Henry Moore: Elephant Skull 9/22/09 12/13/09
Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Collection of the Walker Art Center 9/25/09 12/6/09

2008

Imaging by Numbers: A Historial View of the Computer Print 1/18/08 4/6/08
Space, Color, and Motion 1/18/08 4/6/08
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/25/08 6/22/08
Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright 5/9/08 8/24/08
Dawn from Memory: Holocaust and History in the Art of Samuel Bak 9/19/08 11/30/08
A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope 9/19/08 11/30/08
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Reality of Dreams 9/26/08 12/14/08

2007

From the Trenches to the Street: Art from Germany, 1910s-1920s 1/19/07 3/18/07
Nonsense and Experimentation: Dada Film Shorts 1/19/07 3/18/07
Lovis Corinth: Weimar Period Prints 1/19/07 3/18/07
Wolfgang Gäfgen: Portfolios 1/19/07 3/18/07
Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97: From the Collections of Jordan D. Smith Schnitzer and His Family Foundation 4/13/07 6/17/07
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/27/07 6/17/07
The Exquisite Snake 7/6/07 8/26/07
Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film 9/28/07 12/9/07
Douglas Gordon: Feature Film 9/28/07 12/9/07

2006

The Anatomy of Gender: Arts of the Body in Early Modern Europe 1/3/06 3/12/06
Philipon's La Caricature and the Street 1/20/06 3/12/06
Jeanne Dunning: Making Boys and Girls 1/20/06 3/12/06
Comic Art: The Paris Salon Caricature 1/20/06 3/12/06
Political Currents across the Channel: James Gillray's Caricatures of France 1/20/06 3/12/06
Jim Dine, some drawings 4/7/06 6/18/06
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/21/06 6/18/06
Process of Abstraction: Two-and Three-Dimensional Work by Modernist Sculptors 7/7/06 8/27/06
Keeping Shadows: Photography at the Worcester Art Museum 9/22/06 12/10/06
Torkel Korling: Bridging Commercial and Art Photography 9/22/06 12/10/06
Realist Tendencies on Paper 10/10/06 12/17/06
…even in a room full of darkness 10/10/06 12/10/06

2005

How We Might Live: The Arts and Crafts Interior 1/4/05 3/6/05
Bill Viola: The Greeting 1/21/05 3/13/05
The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design 1/21/05 3/13/05
Foundations: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Prints from the Collection 4/8/05 6/19/05
Currents: Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Modern and Contemptorary Prints 4/8/05 6/19/05
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/22/05 6/19/05
Sculpting in Glass 7/14/05 8/28/05
Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature 9/23/05 12/2/05
Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Woman Artists, 1910-1960 9/23/05 12/11/05
Steina Vasulka: Orbital Obsessions 9/23/05 12/11/05
Maybelle Stamper: Works on Paper 9/23/05 12/11/05

2004

Lorna Simpson: 31 1/17/04 3/28/04
American Diorama: A Video Installation by Charles Woodman 1/30/04 5/9/04
American Expression: Art and Social Change, 1920s-1950s 1/30/04 5/9/04
Working Conditions: Depression-Era American Prints 1/30/04 5/9/04
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/15/04 6/20/04
Persistence of Vision: The Evolution of the Moving Image, 1895-1910 7/17/04 8/22/04
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics 9/10/04 11/28/04

2003

Max Beckmann: Self Portraits from the Collection of James and Pamela Elesh 1/17/03 3/16/03
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints 1/17/03 3/16/03
Small Wonder: Worlds in a Box, Photographs by David Levinthal 1/24/03 3/23/03
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/5/03 6/1/03
The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality 4/11/03 6/22/03
Curtis: On Becoming Animal, An Installation by Lane Hall and Lisa Moline 4/11/03 6/1/03
The Whitehouse Collection of American Crafts 7/18/03 8/24/03
Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 9/26/03 11/30/03
Old Master Drawings from the Collection: Traditional Drawing Practices in European Arts 9/26/03 11/30/03
Carolee Schneemann: Up To and Including Her Limits 9/26/03 12/14/03
Honoré Daumier: Public and Private Domains 10/4/03 12/14/03

2002

Portal (2nd showing) 1/1/02 3/17/02
selfportrait.map: LoCurto/Outcault 1/11/02 2/24/02
Jacob Lawrence: Prints from the Series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture 2/1/02 3/31/02
Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden 2/1/02 3/31/02
9/11: Visions, Sounds and Words, Evanston Township High School Students 3/15/02 3/24/02
MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice 4/5/02 5/5/02
In the Alchemist's Kitchen 4/19/02 5/26/02
Fazal Sheikh: The Victor Weeps • A Camel for the Son • Ramadan Moon • Simpatia 4/19/02 6/23/02
Kali: The Goddess of the Millennium 5/24/02 6/23/02
Ethnography and Desire: Video Installations by Daniel Peltz 6/11/02 6/23/02
Portal 9/23/02 12/10/02
The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz 9/27/02 12/8/02
2002 AIDS Day 12/2/02 12/18/02

2001

Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age 1/2/01 3/4/01
Imaging and Imagining Space: A Collaboration Between Art and Science 1/12/01 2/18/01
Chicago's South Side 1946–1948: The Wayne Miller Photographs 3/13/01 4/22/01
More Chicago 3/13/01 4/22/01
David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions 3/17/01 4/29/01
On European Ground: The Photographs of Alan Cohen 5/8/01 6/17/01
Artists/Alumni: Recent Graduates of the MFA Program of the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University 5/18/01 7/8/01
Pond II 5/27/01 6/17/01
Vera Klement: Drawings 9/21/01 10/28/01
College Proofs: The Riverhouse Editions Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 9/21/01 10/28/01
Prints by Sculptors: The Rudolph H. And Fannia Weingartner Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 9/22/01 12/9/01
Pastime: An Installation by Molly Davies 9/29/01 12/9/01
NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom 11/9/01 1/13/02
Hiratsuka Un'ichi: Color Woodblock Prints 11/9/01 1/13/02

2000

Self–Portraits of Lovis Corinth 9/23/00 10/15/00
Theo Leffmann: Weaving a Life into Art 9/23/00 10/29/00
Scratch Studies: New Work by Shawn Decker 9/23/00 12/10/00
Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Periphery of the Museum 9/23/00 12/10/00
Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection 9/23/00 12/10/00
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Work from 1965 to 1998 from a Chicago Private Collection 11/6/00 12/10/00
Prints from Printworks 10/1/00 12/10/00

1998

Narrative and Abstraction in 20th Century Photography: Works by W. Eugene Smith and Alan Cohen from the Block Gallery 1/8/98 3/1/98
The Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas: The Photographs of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits 5/21/98 8/9/98
Rapture: At the Interface Between Love and Disease 10/2/98 12/2/98

1997

Rudolf Koppitz: Viennese "Master of the Camera" 1/17/97 3/9/97
Frankisek Drtikol: A Retrospective 4/17/97 6/16/97
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture 4/17/97 6/22/97
Henry Simon, 1901–1995 9/19/97 12/7/97

1996

Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and Twentieth Century American Art, 1930–1990 1/12/96 3/3/96
Emigrants and Exiles: A Lost Generation of Austrian Artists in America, 1920–1950 4/19/96 6/16/96
Bert Van Bork: Prints and Watercolors 7/12/96 8/10/96
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago, 1935–1995 9/27/96 12/8/96

1995

Dabloids and Elephants: Leonid Tishkov Creatures 1/13/95 3/5/95
The Many Faces of Wenceslaus Hollar: Seventeenth Century Prints from the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 5/21/95 6/18/95
Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960–1990 9/22/95 12/3/95

1994

Stark Impressions, Graphic Production in Germany, 1918–1933 1/14/94 3/30/94
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Depression–Era Prints from the Collection of the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery 5/12/94 6/19/94
Displacements: South African Works on Paper, 1984–1994 9/22/94 12/4/94

1993

Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now 1/14/93 3/4/93
Sculpture and Drawings by Carol Kreeger Davidson, 1983–1993 4/25/93 5/4/93
Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540–1640 5/7/93 6/27/93
From the Border 5/15/93 5/16/93
Fluxus: A Conceptual Country 9/24/93 12/5/93

1992

Thinking Modern: Painting in Chicago 1910–1940 1/18/92 4/5/92
Constantin Brancusi: The Photographs 3/13/92 4/18/93
My Own Futurism: The Drawings of Fortunato Depero 5/1/92 6/27/92
Pacific Parallels: Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand, 1840–1990 7/10/92 8/15/92
The American Print: Originality and Experimentation, 1790–1890 9/24/92 12/4/92

1991

Jakob Ignaz hittorff, 1762-1867: German of Paris 1/11/91 3/10/91
The Modernist Tradition in American Watercolors, 1911–1939 4/5/91 6/22/91
The Drawings of Pietro Lazzari 7/11/91 8/17/91
Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca 9/5/91 10/20/91
Modernist Abstraction in American Prints 11/7/91 12/15/91

1990

Northwestern Collects: 1985–1989 1/11/90 2/22/90
Heritage of the Brush: Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting 3/8/90 5/12/90
A Different War: Vietnam in Art 5/10/90 6/24/90
Art at the Big Ten: Paintings and Drawings 7/19/90 8/26/90
Secessionism and Austrian Graphic Art 1900 – 1920: From the Collection of the Neue Galleria der Stadt Linz 9/25/90 11/19/90

1989

Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston 1/12/89 3/5/89
Abstract Options 4/6/89 6/18/89
American Screenprints: The Depths of Superficiality: Andy Warhol's Screenprints 7/6/89 8/20/89
Wild Spirits and Strong Medicine: African Art and Nature 9/21/89 11/22/89

1988

Landscape Drawings from Five Centuries, 1400–1900: From the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1/14/88 3/30/88
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America 4/7/88 6/5/88
David Giese: The Rise and Fall of Taste Jiri Anderle: A Selection from the Werksman Collection 7/7/88 8/21/88
ArtIsrael 1988 9/8/88 10/16/88
Brucke: German Expressionist Prints from the Granvil and Marcia Specks Collection 10/27/88 12/18/88

1987

Architects' Drawings from the Collection of Barbara Pine 1/16/87 3/1/87
Indian Miniatures from the Ehrenfeld Collection 3/19/87 5/31/87
The Photographs of Josef Albers: A Selection from the Collection of the Josef Albers Foundation German Photography of the 20s and 30s from Chicago Collections 6/19/87 8/9/87
A Collection Rediscovered: European Paintings from the Tweed Museum of Art 10/2/87 12/13/87

1986

Painting at Northwestern: Conger, Paschke, Valerio 1/24/86 3/30/86
British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art 4/18/86 6/1/86
Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection 6/12/86 8/10/86
Exploration of a Medium: The Polaroid Collection 8/29/86 10/12/86
American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors 10/24/86 12/14/86

1985

Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass 1/24/85 3/24/85
The 39th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 5/16/85 7/7/85
American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation 7/5/85 10/6/85
Picture Taking: Weegee, Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe 11/1/85 12/22/85

1984

Frank Stella Prints: 1967–1982 3/9/84 5/19/84
La Vie Moderne: 19th Century French Painting from the Corcoran Gallery 5/18/84 7/15/84
Fifty Years of Babar 8/3/84 9/19/84
Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection Master Drawings from the Collection of Northwestern University 9/28/84 10/28/84
All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Paintings of the Hudson River School Lay of the Land: 20th Century Landscape Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection 11/16/84 12/30/84

1983

Collaborations: Artists and Architects 1/27/83 3/6/83
The Sara Roby Foundation Collection 3/23/83 7/3/83
Forgotten Dimension: A Survey of Small Sculpture in California Now 7/29/83 9/18/83
Irish Silver: From the Collection of the National Museum of Ireland 10/14/83 11/20/83
Discoveries from Kurdish Looms 12/9/83 2/19/84

1982

Recollections: Ten Women of Photography 1/15/82 2/28/82
Pavlova! 3/12/82 4/4/82
Musical Manuscripts 4/15/82 6/20/82
Circa 1800: The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking, 1775–1835 4/15/82 6/20/82
Images of Landscape 7/8/82 8/22/82
Treasures of the Royal Photographic Society 9/15/82 10/24/82
Chinese Ceramics from Chicago Collections 11/17/82 1/15/83
Hans Hofmann: Colorist in Black and White 12/1/82 1/3/83

1981

Points of View: The Stereograph in America Jacob Jordaens: Drawings and Prints 1/16/81 2/22/81
Guy Pene du Bois: Artist about Town 3/19/81 5/21/81
Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest 5/13/81 6/28/81
Morning Star Quilts: Art of the Plains Indians 7/15/81 8/16/81
Contemporary Graphics from the Northwestern University Collection: Recent Gifts Designs of the N'debele 9/1/81 10/4/81
Exploring Society Photographically 10/14/81 11/29/81
Master Drawings Rediscovered 12/8/81 1/3/82

1980

Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest 4/3/80 4/27/80
Alderman Boydell's Shakespeare Museum 4/3/80 6/1/80
Form and Figure: Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing 5/2/80 6/1/80
American Art in the Union League Club of Chicago: A Centennial Exhibition 6/5/80 8/30/80
Collaborations 9/28/80 10/26/80
Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney III The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn 11/1/80 12/7/80
Illinois Partners: III 12/12/80 1/11/81