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 |