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School of Art & Art History Graduate Archive
For more than seventy-five years, the School of Art and Art History at The University of Iowa has collected thousands of artworks by artists attending the School's graduate studio programs. Each graduate student was asked to leave behind a work they completed during their graduate studies; the resulting School of Art and Art History Graduate Collection contains over 6,000 paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and other art objects. Within the last few years, the School has been collecting slides and digital images from graduate students while they can still donate works to the collection. The Archive is unique in the country and provides a critical overview of the developments in American art over much of the last century. The quality of the Collection is remarkable and reflects the extraordinary reputation of the School and its graduate alumni. The Collection contains works by notable artists who studied at the School, including painter Ellen Lanyon, whose work can be seen at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago; Elizabeth Catlett, famous African-American sculptor; Miriam Shapiro, painter/sculptor, co-originator of the feminist art program at the California Institute of Arts and co-founder of the Feminist Art Institute of New York City; Thomas Lawton, retired director of the Freer Gallery of Chinese Art, and Roy Sieber, former co-director of the Museum of African Art, both of the Smithsonian Institutions, among many, many others. The School of Art and Art History has played a crucial role in the history of American art. The University was among the first in the country to unite studio art, art history, and art education, and it remains among the relatively few major research universities to offer art history and studio courses in the same academic unit. With its national profile the School of Art and Art History is one of the University of Iowa's premier programs, ranked the sixth-best art school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. The School of Art and Art History continues to bring distinction to the University and to the state of Iowa.
English
Art objects Art
1980-1990 1990-2000
United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
School of Art & Art History Graduate Archive Iowa Gallery
University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History
2005/2007
For educational use only; no other permissions given. Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist. For more information, contact the School of Art and Art History at The University of Iowa.
https://art.uiowa.edu/
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