This exhibition presents a wide array of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by one of Maine’s best-known artists, Dahlov Ipcar (1917-2017). Drawn mainly from private collections, the works represent periods spanning nearly the artist’s entire career. Many of the works in Blue Moons & Menageries are exhibited publicly for the first time. Ipcar, the daughter of prominent modernist artists, Marguerite and William Zorach, reached a wide audience through the many children’s books she wrote and illustrated, and many of these images are also included. She also maintained a steady studio practice, producing paintings, sculptures, and prints that have been widely collected in public and private collections. In 1939, Ipcar was the first woman–and, at the age of 21, the youngest artist to date–to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. An illustrated catalogue, with essay by Sara Torres, Education Researcher, MoMA, will support the exhibition.
Valley of Tishnar, 1966, oil on canvas, courtesy of the collection of Robert Ipcar and Jane LandisHunters of the Moon, 1966, oil on canvas, courtesy of the collection of Robert Ipcar and Jane LandisGolden Jungle, 1982, needlepoint, courtesy of the estate of Dahlov Ipcar, loaned from Rachel Wallis Fine ArtThe Dragon and St. George, 2011, oil on linen, courtesy of Charles Ipcar and Judy BarrowsBlue Moon Games, 2006, oil on linen, courtesy of Charles Ipcar and Judy BarrowsBlue Moon Dance, 2014, Estate of Dahlov Ipcar, loaned from Rachel Wallis Fine ArtDark of the Sun, 1965, oil on linen, courtesy of the estate of Dahlov Ipcar, loaned from Rachel Wallis Fine ArtMythological Seahorse, 1974, soft sculpture 10.5 x 20 x 5 inches, courtesy of Rachel Wallis Fine ArtBlue Moon Voyage, 2006, oil on linen, courtesy of Charles Ipcar and Judy BarrowsBlue Moon Square, 2007, oil on linen, courtesy of Ann Wescott DoddBlue Moon Night, 1990, oil on linen, courtesy of David Katz and Andrea ParnessBlue Moon Jungle, 2006, oil on linen, courtesy of Charles Ipcar and Judy Barrows
