Elmhurst Art Museum and College Collaborate in Latest Exhibit: Works on Paper

In a first-time collaboration, Elmhurst College and the Elmhurst Art Museum have joined to showcase works of art from the college’s art collection in an exhibition titled, Works on Paper: Selections from the Elmhurst College Collection.

The exhibit is running now through Sunday, Sept. 4, at Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave., with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 20. A public lecture, The Chicago Imagists and the Figurative Tradition, will be given by Suellen Rocca, curator of the Elmhurst College collection, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5.

The college's collection features artists working in Chicago from the 1950s until now, with a large body of work by a group of artists known as imagists. Inspired by popular culture, (comic books, catalogues, wrestling magazines, etc.) imagists produced works that often were brightly colored, highly patterned and precisely crafted. Also included in the collection are outstanding examples of abstraction, surrealism and outsider art.

Works on Paper, which highlights works by the imagists, features drawings, watercolors, collages, lithographs, etchings and screen prints from many of Chicago’s best-known artists from the last four decades. Included are works by 19 artists, such as Ed Paschke, Gladys Nilsson, Richard Hunt, Karl Wirsum and Ray Yoshida.

Other exhibits being shown at the Elmhurst Art Museum include: The Unsentimental Journey of Seymour Rosofsky; Denise Burge: Original Dirt; and Robert Hudson: Between the Lines. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays. 

Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. Children under 12 and those with memberships are free. Fridays are free to the public.

The Elmhurst College Art Collection, with more than 100 works of art, is on permanent display in the A.C. Buehler Library on the College campus and is free and open to the public. Tours can be scheduled by calling (630) 617-3554.