Art
Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
- When
Sep 22, 2009 – Dec 13, 2009
Tuesdays (10am–5pm)
Wednesdays–Fridays (10am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
- Where
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University, 847 491 4000) Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
- Price
- FREE
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In the late 1960s the British artist Henry Moore received an unusual gift—the skull of an African elephant. This exhibition highlights a series of etchings Moore created examining the object’s surfaces. Moore called the 28 prints “a mixture of observation and imagination” when he published them as an album in 1970. Today they are considered to be among the artist’s greatest graphic creations.
