Current and coming: Over the Moon for Blakelock in Iowa Sammy Dalati
Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. Macbeth Gallery Records.
The ethereal landscapes of Ralph Albert Blakelock are once again on view, this time at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, in an exhibition that explores Blakelock’s artistic development during the romantic and early modern periods, and draws on works some out of sight for decades in the museum’s permanent collection.
Encampment by Blakelock, late 1800s.
Except as noted, the works illustrated are in the collection of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, City of Davenport Art Collection, gift of Maurice Hemsing.
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Question of the Day By VANESSA MILLER - Associated Press - Sunday, January 31, 2021
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Some 70 to 80 years ago - in the days of Nile Kinnick, Tennessee Williams and Virgil Hancher - the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History began hosting exhibitions and collecting contemporary works, including Max Beckmann’s “Karneval” and the swirling abstraction that is Jackson Pollock’s “Mural.”
The UI opened its first Museum of Art in 1969, expanded it in 1976 and for decades featured and grew its collections until torrential flooding devastated the campus and its exhibition space in 2008.
2022 opening will return Jackson Pollock s Mural to Iowa City
Construction continues Jan. 14 on the new University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City. The facility, when it opens to the public likely in 2022, will mark a new home for the UI’s art collection after it was driven from campus in 2008 because of historic flooding. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Construction continues Jan. 14 on the new University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City. The facility, when it opens to the public likely in 2022, will mark a new home for the UI’s art collection after it was driven from campus in 2008 because of historic flooding. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Seating by Design includes works by Correia, her alumni, and her grad school mentor at Iowa
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 For Your Eyes Only by Hu Hung-shu
Visitors to the Figge Art Museum’s “Seating by Design” exhibition are greeted by an unconventional chair beige, wooden, oblong with a title: “For Your Eyes Only.” The piece serves as an appropriate opener to the exhibition, which features a series of chairs designed by artists associated with the 3D Design Program in the School of Art and Art History.
Created by the late University of Iowa Professor of Design Hu Hung-Shu, the piece invites visitors not to sit, but rather to experience exquisitely created works of art and design.