Art on the Third Floor
Poppies in Memory of a Northwestern Student Marie Pompilio, 1970-1988
M. Sodfrey, Unknown
This warm, floral print was added to the Norris collection in memory of Northwestern student Marie Pompilio. Pompilio was a freshman at Northwestern when she passed. The warm color and naturalist scene of this print reminds those who walk past it of the ever-present beauty surrounding us in life, and the urgency in grabbing such beauty while we can. Like the indulgently romantic tone of this print, life is for the cherishing.
Fly By
David Dreisbach, 1971
David Fraiser Dreisbach, printmaker, and educator, was born in Wausau, Wisconsin on October 7, 1922, to George Croll Driesbach and Lucy Adelaide Kilbourn.
David Driesbach was an extremely prolific artist, creating hundreds, if not thousands of artworks throughout his life. Up to the end of his life, he enjoyed drawing and painting at Wynscape. He was an innovator in the development of new printmaking techniques and was featured in multiple national and international exhibitions. In his later years, he traveled the country giving workshops at colleges on color viscosity printmaking, a technique he learned while on sabbatical in Paris.
In 2012, Driesbach received the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International.
Untitled
Margaret Ringhaver, Unknown
Ringhaver is an iconic figure in the art of printmaking in the Chicago scene. Along with two other women, Ringhaver opened Expressions Graphics in 1981. The original idea for the center was a place to printmake, etch, block print, and silk screen for those who were new to the form. They wanted to teach and educate about a side of art that not many knew much about.
Ringhaver’s print in the Norris collection is an impressive example of her own personal abstract style. Expressions Graphics is still around and thriving, though Ms. Ringhaver is no longer with us.
