Untitled

Prints and Drawings

1955

Nancy Spero
American, 1926-2009

Nancy Spero graduated from SAIC in 1949. She received an honorary doctorate from SAIC in 1991. This lithograph was created at the Graphic Workshop run by her friends and classmates Ellen Lanyon and Roland Ginzel. At this early stage in the artist’s career, she was already influenced by the style and format of figures found on Egyptian and Etruscan sarcophagi—images she had seen firsthand at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and the Oriental Institute of University of Chicago, and later in Italy, where she lived with her husband, Leon Golub.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nancy Spero
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1955
Medium: Color lithograph from two stones on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image/sheet: 50.2 × 62.9 cm (19 13/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Roland Ginzel
Reference Number: 2014.1152

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