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 |