Known predominantly for paintings and drawings in tempera, watercolor, and ink, Chicago artist Lee Godie favored her own self-image as her principal subject.
Bringing to Light: The Massengill Family Photo Collection
October 11, 2015 — January 17, 2016
In the first museum exhibition of this body of work, the Massengill family photo collection demonstrates the role of photography in the recounting of daily lives.
The unifying element of Photography and the Scientific Spirit is that all the works in the exhibition characterize invention and imagination in a manner described by Walt Whitman as “the scientific spirit.”