Valerie Carberry Gallery

ELLEN LANYON
   
(1926 - 2013)
   
   
   
EDUCATION
   
1948 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1950 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2007 Honorary Doctorate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
   
TEACHING
   
Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Academic Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Associate Professor. Cooper Union, New York, NY
   
ONE-PERSON SHOWS
   
2012 Ellen Lanyon: Persistence of Vision , DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2010 Curiosities, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
  Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 At the Sign of the Hat, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Ellen Lanyon: A Wonder Production, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
  Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York, NY
2003 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1999-00 The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 
1999 Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Adrian College, Adrian, MI
1997 Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
  Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
  Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL
  Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica
1996 TBA Space, Chicago, IL
1994 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
  University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
1993 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Struve Gallery, Chicago IL
1992 Berland-Hall Gallery, New York, NY
  Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
1990 Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Printworks Ltd, Chicago, IL
  Julian Pretto / Berland- Hall, New York, NY
  Union League Club, Chicago, IL
1987-88 Ellen Lanyon, Strange Games: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1987 J.L. Becker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  Barat College, Lake Forest, IL
1985 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Susan Caldwell Inc, New York, NY
  N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL 
  St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
1982 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1981 Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
1980 Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
  Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
  Odyssia Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Bradley University, Peoria, IL
  Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1978 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
  Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
  Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY
1977 Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
  Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
1976 Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy
  Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
  Krannert Performing Arts Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
  Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1974 Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, WI
  Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1973 Stephens College, Columbia, MO
  Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1972 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
  Wabash Transit Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Madison Art Center, Madison, WI    
  National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1970 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1969 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1968 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, IL
1966 Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN   
1965 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, IL
1964 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Houston, TX
1962 Stewart Rickard Gallery, San Antonio, TX
  Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1958 Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1952 Bordelon's, Chicago, IL
1948 Carlebach Gallery, New York, NY
   
   
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2012 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  An Assemblage of Four, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL
2011 Re:Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2011 Ellen Lanyon & Philip Pearstein: Objects/Objectivity, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Bold Sabatoeurs, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2005 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  John Cain's Side Show, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Opulence, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI
2004 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  Out Of The Blue, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
  The Age of Pluralism in Chicago, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
  The Artist As Collector, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
2003 A Fine Line, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  Artists & The Cultivated Landscape, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI
  Challenging Tradition, Women of the Academy, National Academy, New York, NY
  178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2002 Made in Chicago ca. 1970, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
  Natural History, Aaron Packer Gallery, Chicago IL
2001 Reflections, Jean Albano Gallery
  Members Biennial, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2000 Black And White, Jean Albano Gallery
  Chicago Funk: Imagist Art 1950-1975, Whitney Museum at Champion
  The Likeness of Being:  Self Portraits by 60 Women, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999             Cats and Dogs, Jean Albano Gallery
  (Un)becoming, Jean Albano Gallery
  The 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York, NY
  Contemporary Classicism,  Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
  Primary Colors, Jean Albano Gallery
1998             Collaborations, Printworks Gallery
  The Joe Wilfer Show, Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY
1997             Selections from the Collection, Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL
  Silver and Gold, Jean Albano Gallery
  Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery
  Small Works, Printworks Gallery
  Eleven for Ninety Seven, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY
  Women and Chicago Imagism, Illinois Art Gallery, State Of Illinois Building, Chicago, IL
  Landfall Press/25 Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1996             Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
  Women and Chicago Imagism Curator: Scott Snyder, Rockford Art Museum,
Rockford, IL (catalog)
  Julian Pretto Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  New Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Moderate Fable, Andre Zarre Gallery New York, NY
  Generations: Chicago Printers And Printmakers, Suburban Fine Arts
Center, Highland Park, IL
  Art In Chicago 1945-95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
(catalog)
  Patchwork, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
  Self Portraits 1996, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995    New Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Lucy Lippard Collection, Bard College, Rhinebeck, NY
  Selections From The Toni Gutfreund Collection, Oakton College, Des
Plaines, IL
  Book As Art VII, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
(catalog)
  20th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994    The Peaceable Kingdom, Babcock Gallery, New York, NY
  55th Anniversary Invitational, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
  The Aesthetics of Athletics, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
  Artists' Sketchbooks: The Intimate Journeys,  Curator: Krystyna
Wasserman, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washinton, D.C.  (catalog),
1993    Through Thick and Thin, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
  Songs of Retribution, Curator: Nancy Spero, Richard Anderson Gallery,
New York, NY
1992    Landscape as Stage, Curator: Raphael Rubenstein, Marian Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA  (catalog)
  Print Works Ltd., Chicago, IL
  From America's Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, Curator: James Yood, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
  Face to Face:  Self Portraits by Chicago Artists, Curator: Greg
Knight, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1991    Berland-Hall Gallery, New York, NY
  Print Works Ltd., Chicago, IL
  Solo Press Gallery, New York, NY
  Randall Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  A Celebration of Prints, New Visions Gallery, Ithaca, NY
  Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, Curator: Nancy Spero, New York, NY
1990    Two Generations Chicago, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
  Broken Rifles, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
  Artists Christmas Cards, Midtown-Payson Gallery, New York, NY
  Julian Pretto / Berland- Hall, New York, NY
  For the Birds, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
  Recent Acquisitions, Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL  1989 
1989 Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Traveling exhibit: United States and South America (catalog)
  A Critical Subject: Portraits of Dennis Adrian, Struve Gallery,
Chicago, IL
  Symbolism, Cooper Union , New York, NY  Curator: Lenore Malen
(catalog)
  Coming of Age, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (catalog)
1988    Nature in Art, Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY   Curators: Ronnie
Cohen and Carolla van den Houten
  100 Women's Drawings, Hillwood Gallery, C.W. Post, Long Island
University, Greenvale, NY
  Collage at N.A.M.E.,  N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago IL,  Curator: James
Faulkner
  The Legacy of Surrealism in American Art, Ben Shahn Gallery, Wm Paterson College, Wayne, NJ  (catalog)
  American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution, Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta GA   Curator: Eleanor Tufts  (catalog)
  Hothouse, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
  Alice, and Look Who Else, Through the Looking Glass, Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
  Realism Today - The Rita Rich Collection National
Academy of Design, New York NY., Museum of Art, Smith College,
Northampton, MA, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AK, Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH  ((traveling ) catalog)
1987    Connections Project, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
NY
  Made in the U.S.A.: Art from the 50's and 60's, Curator: Sidra
Stich (Traveling), University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, VA.  (catalog)
  Movietone Muse, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY Curator: Gerald
Haggerty
  Retrospective Print Exhibition: Berdich, Golub, Lanyon, Printworks,
Chicago IL        
  The American Landscape, Selections from the Metropolitan
Life Collection, New York, NY
1986 Contemporary Screens, Curator: Virginia Butera, Traveling Exhibit:
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.; Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.;  Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Raleigh, NC; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.; Des Moines Art Center,
Des Moines, IA (catalog)
  The Atelier in America, Invitational, Northern Illinois University,
Dekalb IL
  Artists Source, Traveling exhibit. Curator: Dan Mills (catalog)
  Monumental Space Variations, Penn Plaza, New York NY, Curator: Donald
Kuspit
  Big Containment, Curator: Josh Kind Northern Illinois University,
Dekalb, IL 1986       
  Group Exhibition, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY
1985    Group Exhibition, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
  The Figure and the Landscape, Artists Choice Museum, New York, NY Curators: Jack Beal and Judd Tully   (catalog)
  Small Works, The Bank of Boston, Boston, MA  Curator: John Arthur
(catalog)
  Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Curator: George
Adams
  The Baseball Card Portrait Show, Renaissance Society, University of
Chicago
  Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC  Curator: Donald Droll  (catalog)
  American Art, American Women, Stanford Museum, Stanford, CT
Curator: Dorothy Mayhall (catalog)
  Art, Design and the Modern Corporation, National Museum of American
Art, Washington, D.C.
  The Folding Image, Yale University, New Haven CT & The National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
  Romantic Landscape, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
  Adornments, Traveling Exhibit: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
(catalog)
  American Realism, Glenn C. Janss Collection,  Curator: Henry Hopkins, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA & The National Academy of Design, New York, NY  (catalog)
  Summer Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana,
IL 1984       
1984 de Libros de Artistas, Bienale Internacionale, C.A.Y.C.,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Offset: A Survey of Artists Books, Hera Foundation (traveling, catalog)
  Animals, Animals, Stanford Museum, Stanford, CT Curator: Dorothy
Mayhall (catalog)
  Olympiad - Summer 1984, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Collectors Gallery XVII, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San
Antonio, TX
  Paintings and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN (catalog)
  Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  The Illinois Collection, Richard Gray Collection, Chicago, IL
  Summer Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana,
IL
  Images On Paper, Art & Arch Gallery, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville (catalog)
  A New Look at American Landscape, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Alternative Spaces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalog)
  Landfall Press Publications, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
  Screens, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1983    The Artist and the Quilt Curator: Charlotte
Robinson (traveling, catalog)
  20th Century American Watercolors, Independent Curators Traveling
Exhibition Curator: Janice Orseman (catalog)
  Fans, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL   Curator: Ellen Lanyon
  Continuity and Change, Independent Artists, Chicago, IL  (catalog)
1982    International Artists Book Invitational, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Multiples,  Curator: Esther Sparks, (traveling) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
IL, National Academy of Design, New York NY, National Museum of
American Art, Washington, D.C., Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
(catalog)
  Windows, Room, Furniture, Cooper Union, New York, NY & Japan
(catalog)
  Realism & Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, Curator:
Jeffrey Wechsler, Vorhees Museum, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
(catalog)
  Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, IL (catalog)
  American Prints 1960-80, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  The Image of the House, University of Houston, Houston, TX
  Summer Invitational Exhibition, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
1981   
1981 The American Landscape, Recent Developments, Whitney Museum,
Fairfield, CT
  Carnevale del Teatro, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Words and Images, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
(catalog)
  Re-Pages, New England Foundation for the Arts (traveling, catalog)
  New Dimensions in Drawing, Curator: Dorothy Mayhall, Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalog)
  Animals in the Arsenal,  The Arsenal, New York, NY
1980    LIS '80, Lisbon International Invitational; American  Curator:
Donald Kuspit, Lisbon, Portugal, (catalog)
  Prizewinners Revisited,  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Fire & Water, Ridgefield Center for the Arts, Ridgefield CT (catalog)
  Mysterious and Magical Realism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT   Curator: Dorothy Mayhall (catalog)
  Black and White Drawings, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
(catalog)
1979    Artists Books, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  Printmaking in America Illustration, Pratt Graphics, New York, NY
  The Pastel in America, Odyssia Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
  Self Portraits, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
  The Watercolor Still Life, Gladstone Villani Gallery, New York, NY
  The George Irwin Collection, Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana, IL
  100 Artists, 100 Years,  Art Institute, Chicago, IL Curator: KatherineKuh (catalog)
1978    Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI   (catalog)
  Great Ideas, Collection of The Container Corporation of America,
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
  Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (catalog)
  Sports, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
1977    Critics Choice, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Curator:
Dennis Adrian
  Artists Choice: Figurative Art in New York, Greenmountain Gallery, New
York, NY 
  Figurative Paintings in the Midwest, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
(catalog)
  Private Images: Photographs by Painters, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA   (catalog)
  Contemporary Women: Consciousness and Content, Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, NY
  Recent Works on Paper, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI  (catalog)
  Masterpieces of Chicago Art, Chicago Cultural Center Curator: Dennis
Adrian
  Out of the House, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1976 The Book as Art, Curator: Daniel Fendrick, Fendrick Gallery,
Washington, D.C.
  Landscape Art In Illinois 1830-1976, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago,
Illinois (traveling, catalog)
  American Artists '76, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio
TX
  Hyde Park Art Center Retrospective, H.Y.P.C., Chicago, IL  (catalog)
  America '76, US Department of The Interior Bicentennial Traveling
Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.  (catalog)
  Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA  (traveling, catalog)
  Society For Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1975 Foodstuff, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
(catalog)
  American Women Printmakers, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
1974 Still Life, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
(catalog)
  Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro NC, Curator: Donald Droll   (catalog)
1973    Artists' Books, Moore College, Philadelphia PA
  Chicago Style, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL
  Works on Paper, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
  Landfall Press Prints, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. (traveling, catalog)             
  Una Tendenza Americana, Curator: Luigi Carluccio,
Galleria Comunale D'Arte, Arezzo, Italy, Traveling Exhibition.
(catalog)
  Annual Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL
1972    Chicago Imagists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalog)
  Chicago Imagists, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (catalog)
  American Women 20th Century, Lakeview Center, Peoria, IL (catalog)
  Unmanly Art, Curator: Lucy Lippard  Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, NY
(catalog)
1971    Society For Contemporary Art,  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, IL (catalog)
  Each In His Own Way Curator: Jan van der Marck, FTD Traveling
(catalog)
  Beyond Illustration, HMH Publishing (traveling)
1970     Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  Birds and Beasts, Graham Gallery, New York, NY  (catalog)
1969    Annual Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
  Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1968    Annual Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
  Response, Artists' Protest Exhibition, Chicago, IL
  Violence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL  (catalog)
1968-69 Nostalgia, American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition
Curator: Ivan Karp
1968-71 Illinois Painters, Illinois Arts Council (traveling, catalog)
1967    L.B.J. Exhibition, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1966    Figure Painting, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
1965    Drawing Society Invitational, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
  Annual Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
  Stewart Rickard Gallery,two-person with Richard Hunt, San Antonio, TX
  The Drawing Society National Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
TX
  Art In Progress, Curator: Elaine Varian, Finch College, New York, NY
(catalog)
  Fourteen Illinois Artists, Illinois Arts Council (traveling, catalog)
1964    Society For Contemporary Art,  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
1963    Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY (catalog)
1961 Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Corcoran Gallery, 27th Biennial Exhibition, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
1960    Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1958-59     Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1958    Chicago Painters, Stuart Brent Gallery, Chicago, IL
1957-58    Modern Paintings of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
IL (traveling, catalog)
1957    Contemporary American Painting Curator: Allen Weller, Krannert
Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (catalog)
  Summer Painting Show, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
   Chicago Painters, Stuart Brent Gallery, Chicago, IL
1955   Society For Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Chicago Graphic Workshop Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
  Fifty American Printmakers, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1954    Chicago Artists, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
  Northwest Printmakers, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  Graphics USA, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL   (catalog)
  Print Annual, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1953     American Biennale Curator: James Speyer Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL (catalog)
  Young Printmakers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Contemporary American Painting, Krannert Art Museum, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL  (catalog)
1952    Prints, Drawings and Watercolors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY
1952    Printmaking Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, Society For Contemporary Art,  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1951     American Biennale, Curator: James Speyer Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL (catalog)
1950    Print Annual, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  National Juried Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, CA (catalog)
  Printmaking Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
  Print Annual, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  Iowa Print Group Exhibition, London County Council, London, England
  Print Annual, Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
  Annual Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA  (catalog)
1948    Carlebach Gallery, New York, NY
  Exhibition Momentum, Chicago, IL   (catalog)
1947    American Biennale Curator: Fred Sweet, Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL (catalog)
  Print Annual, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1945-69    American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibitions
1945-82    Chicago and Vicinity Annuals,  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
IL (catalog)
1945    National Juried Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, CA (catalog)
  Print Annual, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
 

 

COLLECTIONS
   
  Adrian College, Adrian, MI
  Albion College, Albion, MI
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
  The Brunnier Art Museum, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  City of Miami Beach, Police and Court Facility, Miami Beach, FL
  City of Chicago, Riverwalk Gateway Project, Chicago, IL
  CUNY Performing Arts Center, York College, Queens, NY
  Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland, OH
  Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
  Fred Jones Jr, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  Galleria Comunale D'Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy
  Haggerty Art Center, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
  Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
  Illinois Wesleyan University, Peoria, IL
  Institute of International Education, London, England
  Koffler Collection, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
  Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
  Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
  National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
  New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
  New York Public Library, New York, NY
  Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
  Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
  Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
  Simmons College, Boston, MA
  Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
  State of Illinois Building, Chicago, IL
  State of Illinois, State Capitol Building, Springfield, IL
  University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  Museum of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
   
   
   
AWARDS
   
2011 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2007 Honorary doctorate, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2005 Cora Bliss Taylor Fellow and Benefit Honoree, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
  Elected Member of the Century Association, New York, NY
2004  Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievment Award, University of Iowa   
2001 Honor for Lifetime Achievment, Womens Caucus for Art
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Lincoln College, Lincoln, IL      
1998 Florsheim Foundation Grant
  Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York,, NY
1997 Elected to National Academy of Art, New York NY
  National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Grant in Painting
1982  Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1981 Herewood Lester Cook Foundation Grant, Washington, D.C.
1976 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
  Ossabaw Island Project, Ossabaw Island, GA
1975 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
1974 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
  National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Grant in Painting
  Honorary B.F.A., Graduation Address, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1971 Cassandra Foundation, Artists Grant 
1950-51 Fulbright Scholarship, Courtauld Institute, University of London, London, England