Parrot and Plant
<p>In 1948 Lanyon earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had met her future husband, the artist Roland Ginzel. Together they attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, where she learned to attack the copper plate without preliminary drawing, bringing out the inherent physicality of her tools and gestures. Lanyon was known for her keen observational skills; though she never owned one of the birds, she once recalled a childhood memory of her neighbor’s parrot that used to squawk annoyingly into the courtyard of her apartment building.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1944
- Medium
- Drypoint, lift-ground, aquatint, and open bite, in black, with plate tone, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 45.2 × 59.5 cm (17 13/16 × 23 7/16 in.); Sheet; sight: 46.9 × 60.5 cm (18 1/2 × 23 7/8 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
- 1944
- Medium
- Drypoint, lift-ground, aquatint, and open bite, in black, with plate tone, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 45.2 × 59.5 cm (17 13/16 × 23 7/16 in.); Sheet; sight: 46.9 × 60.5 cm (18 1/2 × 23 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1944-119933
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified