Milwaukee Art Museum
Petite Posters: Jules Chéret and Le Courrier français June 28–November 17, 2019
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Illinois State Museum --
Springfield
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris: Daphne’s Sister
This exhibition of over 40 years of painting and drawing by Chicago artist Eleanor Spiess-Ferris traces the development of her distinctive figures across her career and compares studies and sketches with final works. Spiess-Ferris’s figures are narrative bodies, telling stories of personal, spiritual and environmental crises.
October 26, 2019 to February 16, 2020
This exhibition of over 40 years of painting and drawing by Chicago artist Eleanor Spiess-Ferris traces the development of her distinctive figures across her career and compares studies and sketches with final works. Spiess-Ferris’s figures are narrative bodies, telling stories of personal, spiritual and environmental crises.
October 26, 2019 to February 16, 2020
Art Institute of Chicago
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The Impressionist Pastel
Although Impressionism is most closely associated with oil painting, during the late 19th century, Impressionist artists increasingly began to exhibit and market their prints and drawings as finished works of art. In fact, prints and drawings made up nearly half of the works in the eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886. This focused installation features pastels by four artists whose work was shown in the Impressionist exhibitions: Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Eva Gonzalès, and Berthe Morisot. to March 8, 2020 image: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, Two Dancers, 1893–1898; Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Col. Robert R. McCormick to the Amy McCormick Memorial Collection |
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Saint Louis Art Museum
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Printing the Pastoral: Visions of the Countryside in 18th-Century Europe
through December 1, 2019 Printing the Pastoral: Visions of the Countryside in 18th-Century Europe presents early and rare examples of copperplate-printed cottons, more familiarly known as toile. This textile genre has remained popular since its inception more than 250 years ago, when technological advances allowed textile printers to exploit the type of copperplates long used by artists to print on paper. Artisans were then able to create nuanced, intricate designs, and their creativity flourished. image: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745–1811; Activities on the Farm, c.1795 (detail); copperplate-printed cotton; 89 x 72 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 224:1931 |
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