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Six Episodes/ Monarch
1979 · hand-colored lithograph on black paper
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ellen Lanyon
1926–2013
WA-00045977
Chicago, IL, USA
Painting
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
149
Assets Indexed
3
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0
Publications Referenced
70%
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Authority Records (1)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962
No image
Young American Printmakers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953–1954
Field Verification (3 fields)
2 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (2)
- AicTier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
About
Why this artist matters now
Ellen Lanyon was an American painter and printmaker whose meticulously detailed works combined surrealist imagery with precisionist formal control. Based in Chicago, she worked across painting and printmaking, developing a distinctive visual language that merged dreamlike subject matter with technical mastery in both media. Her work has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, establishing her significance within mid-twentieth-century American art.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 85% · Updated 13d ago
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Artworks (2)
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2 published of 140 catalogued · 139 with image
- Art Institute Chicago1 publishedof 139 catalogued139 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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1 entries · 1 sources
- 1979 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Art Institute of Chicago
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