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Curator's Talk: “Chipping the Block, Painting the Silk”

Sat, 08/23/2014 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Dr. Joby Patterson, guest curator of Chipping the Block, Painting the Silk: The Color Block Prints and Serigraphs of Norma Bassett Hall, shares her adventures in uncovering Hall's life and work and provides a tour of the exhibition. Reception and book signing of Patterson’s new publication, Norma Bassett Hall: Catalogue Raisonné of Block Prints and Serigraphs, to follow.

Norma Bassett Hall (American, 1888-1957)
A Street of Villefranche, September 1925‑March 1927

Color block print on laid greyish "sludge" paper, 10-7/8 x 5-13/16 inches (image); 13-11/16 x 8-3/16 inches
Private collection; L2013:186.1