Art museum holds exhibition for Oregon-born printmaker

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will present the works of Norma Bassett Hall starting Aug. 23.

“Chipping the Block, Painting the Silk: The Color Block Prints and Serigraphs of Norma Bassett Hall” will be the first solo exhibition of Hall’s work since her death in 1957. The gallery will show more than 60 of Hall’s prints, several of them on loan from private collections.

Guest curator Joby Patterson, author of “Norma Bassett Hall: Catalogue Raisonné of the Block Prints and Serigraphs,” will lead a tour of the exhibition Saturday, Aug. 23, at 2 p.m.

Hall, born in Halsey in 1888, was known for her printmaking. Though she also was also a painter, her work on cherry woodblocks and her Japan-influenced prints are her most well-known pieces.

The exhibition will run Aug. 23 to Oct. 12. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens. Admission is free for those under 18, UO students with ID and UO faculty, staff and students.

—By Nathan Stevens, Public Affairs Communications intern