Summerland: A Ghost Story
Through June 15, 2014
Combining cautionary tale picture books with Gothic ghost stories, local artist Kenneth Gerleve
presents
Summerland: A Ghost Story
.
The sixteen-panel narrative installation features vignettes
from dreams of “the Artist.” Similar to the work of Edward Gorey, the installation is macabre yet
humorous, while acknowledging death and celebrating life.
Summerland
is excised from a larger
work in progress, an experimental, serialized graphic novel,
The Osiris Mechanism
.
Summerland
features atmospheric instrumental music written and performed by local musician Ross Crean.
G is for Gorey—C is for Chicago: The Collection of Thomas Michalak
Through June 15, 2014
This exhibition delves deep into the life of Edward Gorey by focusing on his biography—from
Chicago to Cape Cod. It features books and illustrations for book jackets, magazine articles, and
children’s books, many of which are fanciful and frightful. Works in the exhibition are drawn
almost exclusively from the collection of Thomas Michalak, a Loyola alumnus and board member
of the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts.
Co-presented by the Loyola University
Chicago Libraries.
Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
Through June 15, 2014
The illustrations and stories of Edward Gorey (1925–2000) display a Victorian and Edwardian
sophistication while maintaining a delicate yet witty balance between the hilarious and the horrific.
Elegant Enigmas
includes an illuminating array of more than 170 works, such as original pen-and-
ink illustrations, preparatory sketches, unpublished drawings, sketchbooks, illustrated envelopes,
book-cover ideas, and theatrical costume designs—all drawn from the Edward Gorey Charitable
Trust.
Co-presented by the Loyola University Chicago Libraries.
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From Top: Edward Gorey, Illustration from
The Doubtful Guest
,
pen and ink, 1957; Illustration ©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust. All rights reserved; Edward Gorey,
Poster for
Dracula
, 1977;
Kenneth Gerleve, Illustration from
Summerland: A Ghost Story
, 2013;
Pere Marquette and the Indians
, 1869,
oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 53 in, Gift
of Rev. Stanislaus L. Lalumiere, S.J., Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious,
and the American Experience, 1814–2014
July 19–October 19, 2014
Using historical maps, books, documents, objects, and textiles,
Crossings and Dwellings
tells
the story of 19th-century European Jesuits and women religious who arrived on the country’s
expanding western frontier to serve both Native American and urban immigrant populations.
The exhibition will include liturgical and educational treasures, including pencil drawings
made by Nicolas Point, S.J. (1799–1868), maps by Pierre-Jean De Smet, S.J. (1801–1873), and
clothing gifted to De Smet by Native Americans.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions generously sponsored by
Elegant Enigmas
has been organized by the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust and the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
