Duet
<p>Ellen Lanyon attended SAIC, graduating in 1948. Duet exemplifies the artist’s conflation of her interests in early Italian metal-leaf methods and printmaking. The work was conceived at the University of Iowa, where Lanyon received a graduate degree in 1950, and revised in 1951 with additional plates and varying applications of gold and silver leaf. This experimentation served as the basis for the artist’s postgraduate study at the Courtauld Institute, London. Lanyon also taught at Ox-Bow beginning in 1960 and served as its academic director from 1972 to 1982.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1950
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 31.8 × 40.2 cm (12 9/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 46.7 cm (12 11/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ellen Lanyon
Artist
Painting
Ellen Lanyon was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History and studied restoration at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She also received an honorary doctorate from SAIC. Her works are in the permanent collections of many major American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Ulrich Museum.
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- Ellen Lanyon
- Year
- 1950
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 31.8 × 40.2 cm (12 9/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 46.7 cm (12 11/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1950-088737
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified