Monday, October 31, 2011

Art in da news

artwork: Gladys Nilsson - "Arytystic Pairanoiya", 1978 - Watercolor and pencil on paper - Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Gift of the S.W. and B.M. Koffler Foundation. © 1978, Gladys Nilsson. On view in “Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection” until January 2nd 2012.

Washington, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum is pleased to present “Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection”, on view at the museum until January 2nd 2012. The exhibition features 25 paintings, sculpture and works on paper from 1960 to 1980, including works by Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Theodore Halkin, Vera Klement, Ellen Lanyon, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Barry Tinsley and Ray Yoshida. The artworks are all by Chicago artists from the S.W. and B.M. Koffler Foundation collection, given to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Samuel and Blanche Koffler.

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