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Suellen Rocca

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Suellen RoccaAmerican, 1943 - 2020

Suellen Rocca was an artist and educator with deep roots in the Chicago area. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964 and two years later began exhibiting her paintings at the city’s Hyde Park Art Center, with a group of artists who became known as the Chicago Imagists. This group of painters shared a similar irreverent style and approach to art making that often involved detailed making processes, clearly delineated forms, bright colors, and humor. Rocca, like many Imagists, often used shapes and imagery taken from advertisements and comics, as well as other materials culled from pop culture. She was also an art educator who directed an organization that sent professional artists to teach in Chicago public schools, and taught painting, drawing, and design studio classes at Elmhurst College, in addition to curating the college’s art collection.

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All Santas
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1964
Medium: Etching (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.79.1
All Santas
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1964
Medium: Color etching (black and blue) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.79.2
Bam-Wer
Suellen Rocca
Date: Spring 1963 - 1964
Medium: Lithograph (black) on white wove paper
Object number: 2006.62
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.1
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.2
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.3
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.4
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.5
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint (blue) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.6
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Color etching, drypoint and aquatint (black and blue) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.7
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Color etching, drypoint and aquatint (black and blue) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.86.8
Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint (black) on wove paper
Object number: 2001.390
Birth
Suellen Rocca
Date: circa 1963
Medium: Mezzotint and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.57
Cha Cha Couple
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1967
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1997.19
The Chicago Imagist Print
Roger Brown
Date: 1987
Medium: Color offset lithograph
Object number: 1997.94
Curly Lamp
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1968
Medium: Drypoint and aquatint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.87
James Falconer
Date: June 1967
Medium: Offset lithograph commercially printed, based on an original collaborative drawing made for the purpose by the six artists (black), on newsprint paper
Object number: 2006.89a-c
Da Hairy Who Kamic Kamie Page
James Falconer
Date: June 1967
Medium: Offset lithograph commercially printed, based on an original collaborative drawing made for the purpose by the six artists (black), on newsprint paper
Object number: 2006.89a
Da Hairy Who Kamic Kamie Page
James Falconer
Date: June 1967
Medium: Offset lithograph commercially printed, based on an original collaborative drawing made for the purpose by the six artists (black), on newsprint paper
Object number: 2006.89b
Da Hairy Who Kamic Kamie Page
James Falconer
Date: June 1967
Medium: Offset lithograph commercially printed, based on an original collaborative drawing made for the purpose by the six artists (black), on newsprint paper
Object number: 2006.89c
Dancing Couple
Suellen Rocca
Date: circa 1965 - 1967
Medium: Etching (black) on wove paper
Object number: 2001.384
Dat-Dot Game
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1965
Medium: Etching (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.80
James Falconer
Date: 1969
Medium: Offset lithograph (black) commercially printed on different colored wove papers (cover: pale salmon wove paper; introduction: cream wove paper; Gladys Nillson: buff wove paper; Jim Nutt: pale green wove paper; James Falconer: yellow wove paper; Karl Wirsum: pink wove paper; Suellen Rocca: pale blue wove paper; Art Green: tan wove paper), based on original drawings and handwritten texts made for the purpose by the six artists plus a typewritten introduction
Object number: 2001.691
Extra Color
Suellen Rocca
Date: 1964
Medium: Etching, aquatint and drypoint (black) on off-white wove paper
Object number: 2006.77.1