Illustrating a Modern Education: the Textbook Drawings of Margaret Iannelli, 1925-1937
@ Uri-Eichen Gallery
2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 13th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, April 3rd
Illustrating a Modern Education: the Textbook Drawings of Margaret Iannelli, 1925-1937, a free public exhibition running from March 13-April 3, 2020
An accomplished artist who often worked alongside her husband, Park Ridge-based sculptor Alpohnso Iannelli, Margaret Iannelli (1893-1967) produced the illustrations on exhibition for a series of educational textbooks created by Carleton W. Washburne, longtime head of the Winnetka, IL school system, and published by Chicago’s Rand McNally & Company.
The illustrations reflect Margaret’s commitment to making modern art accessible in everyday life and the progressive philosophy behind the textbooks. Bold and colorful abstractions, the illustrations often have multi-cultural explorations and celebrations as their theme—rare in school textbooks of the era and, in some cases, rare today. Making them all the more exceptional is that the illustrations were produced after Margaret had become a patient at the Elgin State Hospital, where she would spend over half her life.
“Margaret Iannelli was a gifted Chicago-area artist who sought to bring modernism into people’s everyday lives through commercial design,” says Tim Samuelson, the exhibition’s curator and the City of Chicago’s cultural historian. “Her early twentieth century work for advertising, fashion and school textbooks democratically provided modernism to a broad audience without preaching or pretense. Hidden behind the joy of her illustrations were struggles with mental illness, and the loss of personal recognition for her work in the shadow of a well-publicized artist-husband sharing the same surname.”
Closing: April 3, 2020 from 7-9pm. Please visit http://uri-eichen.com/ for more details.
Open by appointment only outside of receptions though April 3rd. For an appointment call 312 320 7717
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Series 2020 May- October: The Erosion of Democracy in the USA.
May: Remembering Artist, Peace, and Social Justice Leader Mark Rogovin
June: Puerto Rico- curated by Monica Trinidad
July: Erosion of Democracy- Curated by Larry Redmond
August: Prison Neighborhood Arts Project and Disenfranchisement
September: Gerrymandering with Tom Greensfelder
October Special Guest Amos Paul Kennedy on the Election
November Spanish Civil War Paper Models
December Human Rights Day Show
URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 South Halsted
CHICAGO Illinois 60608
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