Art Since 1948 | Collection on View | Krannert Art Museum

Art Since 1948 | Collection on View | Krannert Art Museum
Art Since 1948 | Collection on View
Art Since 1948, installation view during Grand Reopening Celebration at Krannert Art Museum, 2025. Photo by Fred Zwicky.
Art Since 1948, installation at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019. Photo by Julia Nucci Kelly
William Baziotes, Moon Animal, 1950. Oil on canvas. Installed in Art Since 1948 at Krannert Art Museum, 2019. University of Illinois purchase through the Festival of Arts Purchase Fund, 1951-6-1.
Exhibition
On View
Sep 1, 2019–Dec 31, 2040
Main Level | Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery
With strengths in American and European surrealism, abstract painting, mid-century kinetic and Pop art, and art addressing powerful themes of history, land use, and identity,
Art Since 1948
is a continuing installation that surveys the collection and encourages formal and conceptual connections across six decades.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
The gallery is installed thematically and chronologically, beginning with works of art collected in the late 1940s from the first years of what became the university’s historic Festival of Contemporary Arts, and continues to the present.
The gallery, designed by Julia Di Castri, a University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture graduate, was first installed in 2019. It is updated and reinstalled every semester with artwork utilized to highlight the gallery’s main themes.
Curated by Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
>> Ricker Library of Architecture and Art has developed a library guide that includes details about some of the work included in this gallery, as well as supplementary materials and curator-recommended reading:
Library Guide to Art Since 1948
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