April 26 – August 5, 2018
Neil Raitt, Emerald Waters (New Beverly), 2016, Oil on canvas. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Northern Trust Purchase Prize and Dial Weil. Image courtesy of DePaul Art Museum. Photograph by Lizabeth Applewhite.
McArthur Binion Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago, 2009, Lithograph. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment. Image courtesy of DePaul Art Museum. Photograph by Lizabeth Applewhite.
Christina Ramberg Overlap, 1985-86, Wool and cotton. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Jerrold and Madelyn Seckler. Image courtesy of DePaul Art Museum. Photograph by Lizabeth Applewhite.
Zoe Nelson Swipe Right, 2017, Oil on canvas. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment and restricted gift of Scott Hunter. Image courtesy of DePaul ArtMuseum. Photograph by Lizabeth Applewhite.
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions is the first in an intermittent series of exhibitions showcasing newly acquired artworks to DePaul Art Museum’s permanent collection of more than 3,500 objects. This exhibition also marks a public introduction to a new collecting vision for the institution, one that focuses on art from Chicago, women artists, artists of color, and LGBTQ artists, while expanding the art historical canon.
This is DPAM’s first public display of these works by Candida Alvarez, Don Baum, McArthur Binion, Michelle Grabner, Miyoko Ito, Helen Mirra, Zoe Nelson, William J. O’Brien, Adam Pendleton, Neil Raitt, Christina Ramberg, Melanie Schiff, and Carrie Schneider, representing a fraction of the museum’s acquisitions within the last few years.
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions is organized by DePaul Art Museum and curated by Laura-Caroline Johnson, Collection and Exhibition Manager.