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Disclosing Eros

Print
1993 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jacqueline Morreau (1929-2016) was born Milwaukee, and attended the Chouinard Art Institute and then the Jepson Art Institute. She also qualified as a medical illustrator in 1958, and in 1972 she moved to London. She later taught drawing at the Royal College of Art. Her work was allied with the feminist art movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and she contributed to two notable exhibitions originated by the ICA: Women’s Images of Men (also a book, edited by Morreau with critic Sarah Kent) and About Time (both 1980). Her subjects were often drawn from myth and fable, which she used to explore personal and political themes including social injustice, religious intolerance and conflict, and the patriarchal oppression of women. Morreau often chose women from myth – Eve, Pandora, Persephone and Psyche - as figures expressive of women’s agency and independence, and the ways in which such agency has been labelled as disobedient or disruptive.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleDisclosing Eros (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Jacqueline Morreau: Disclosing Eros, 1993. Etching.
Physical description
Two figures, Eros and Psyche, reclining. Eros is asleep and Psyche is crouching over him with a lamp looking at his face. Printed in sepia.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 49cm
  • Sheet width: 49cm
  • Plate height: 24.5cm
  • Plate width: 30cm
Copy number
2/40
Marks and inscriptions
  • 2/40 Disclosing Eros J. Morreau (All in pencil)
  • PAUPER (Blind-stamp on paper)
Credit line
Given by Patrick Morreau
Subjects depicted
Summary
Jacqueline Morreau (1929-2016) was born Milwaukee, and attended the Chouinard Art Institute and then the Jepson Art Institute. She also qualified as a medical illustrator in 1958, and in 1972 she moved to London. She later taught drawing at the Royal College of Art. Her work was allied with the feminist art movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and she contributed to two notable exhibitions originated by the ICA: Women’s Images of Men (also a book, edited by Morreau with critic Sarah Kent) and About Time (both 1980). Her subjects were often drawn from myth and fable, which she used to explore personal and political themes including social injustice, religious intolerance and conflict, and the patriarchal oppression of women. Morreau often chose women from myth – Eve, Pandora, Persephone and Psyche - as figures expressive of women’s agency and independence, and the ways in which such agency has been labelled as disobedient or disruptive.
Collection
Accession number
E.2888-2016

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Record createdNovember 25, 2016
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