Rings
<p>Although her primary focus was painting and drawing, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Suellen Rocca decided to minor in printmaking, taking courses with Vera Berdich, who taught etching. While still a student Rocca married a jeweler and became fascinated with gems and settings. In this etching inspired by jewelers’ catalogs, she transformed rows of gemstones and miniature figures into an ordered script reminiscent of ancient pictograms.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 32.6 × 50.8 cm (12 7/8 × 20 in.); Sheet: 39.6 × 60.2 cm (15 5/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Suellen Rocca
Artist
Mixed Media
Suellen Rocca was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966 through 1969. She was curator of the art collection and director of exhibitions at Elmhurst College.
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1967 · Etching and drypoint in black with plate tone on ivory wove paper
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1966 · Offset lithograph in black on coated off-white wove paper
Untitled
1965 · Pen and black ink on wove paper
Bare Shouldered Beauty and the Pink Creature
1965 · Oil on canvas, on two joined panels
Foot Tree
1964 · Color drypoint, inked à la poupée, on ivory wove paper
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- Suellen Rocca
- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 32.6 × 50.8 cm (12 7/8 × 20 in.); Sheet: 39.6 × 60.2 cm (15 5/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1961-037803
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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