Facilities are accessible to the disabled. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. The gallery is closed on Mondays.
Admission is free to the gallery and outdoor sculpture garden.
The winter 1998 exhibition at the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery showcases the work of celebrated Life magazine photojournalist W. Eugene Smith and contemporary Chicago School photographer Alan Cohen, adjunct associate professor, School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Smith is famous for his work as a staff photographer for Life magazine during the 1940s and 1950s, when he created photographs with great popular and dramatic appeal. Cohen traveled to Germany and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s to photograph the scant remains of concentration camps. His images bear witness to time's erasure of the evidence and memory of these sites of death and destruction. The exhibition begins at the mid-point of Smith's career, around 1949, after his rise to fame in World War II when he worked as one of the world's leading combat photographers for Life.