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Lyman Allyn Virtual Lecture: Norman Ives
03/16/2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeJoin us for a virtual dialogue between John Hill and Leonard Stokes as they discuss the work and life of Norman Ives. There will be time at the end for Q&A with attendees.
An innovative artist and designer, Norman Ives (American, 1923-1978) pioneered the use of type and letterforms as primary subjects for his designs. Illustrating the wide range of Norman Ives’s brilliant artistic output, Constructions & Reconstructions traces the artist’s enduring contributions to art and graphic design.
bout the Speakers
John T. Hill is a graphic designer, author and photographer. Hill was Ives’s student and teaching colleague at the Yale University School of Art where he taught both graphic design and photography. Hill co-founded Yale’s first Department of Photography and was its first director of graduate studies. For nineteen years, Hill was executor of the Walker Evans estate. He has produced a number of books and exhibitions on this iconic artist. Most recent was Walker Evans: Depth of Field, a comprehensive book and exhibition sponsored by the Josef Albers Museum. Hill is currently focused on book and exhibition design, and writing. Two of his book designs were selected for the AIGA 50 Books of the Year Award.
Leonard Stokes was Norman Ives’s assistant, colleague and friend at Ives-Sillman, Inc., art publishers in New Haven, Connecticut. He worked with Ives on various book projects including Formulation: Articulation by Josef Albers and Walker Evans: 14 Photographs. He also worked with Ives on a number of mural projects in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
At Purchase College School of Art+Design, State University of New York (SUNY), the focus of his teaching was in Color and in Drawing. He received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for excellence in teaching.
Beyond his teaching at Purchase, he served as Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts (color and drawing) and Acting Chair of the Department of Fine Art. He was a visiting faculty member in drawing at The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, as well as guest critic in drawing at Yale’s School of Architecture.
A collagist and digital montagist, Stokes has exhibited in NY and regionally. His work is in private, public and corporate collections, among them the Newark Museum, the Neuberger Museum, IBM, INA, and Hospital Corporation of America.
He graduated with a BA from Yale College in 1966 followed by an MFA and BFA from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1969.