The Elmhurst University Art Collection

Chicago Imagist & Abstract Art

Shep Step II, a 1973 painting by Barbara Rossi, uses acrylic paints on plexiglass to give the colors an almost iridescent quality.

Shep Step II, 1973

Acrylic on Plexiglass
29” x 23”

Barbara Rossi
American, 1940–

Illinois Arts Council Partners in Purchase Program, 1977

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