One of Jim Dine’s Pinocchio lithographic prints, made in 2009, hangs in the “Jim Dine: American Icon” exhibit at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art. PHOTO PROVIDED
One of Jim Dine’s Pinocchio lithographic prints, made in 2009, hangs in the “Jim Dine: American Icon” exhibit at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art. PHOTO PROVIDED
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Jim Dine: American Icon
Where: Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame

When: Through Dec. 11 Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

Admission: Free Parking: The museum is just north of Notre Dame Stadium. Visitor lots are south of the stadium, where visitors may use the west end of the Walsh Family Hall of Architecture’s parking lot. Buy a permit from a pay station near pole No. 31 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday (first hour is free). The lot is free after 4 p.m. and on Saturdays.

For more information: Call 574-631-5466 or visit sniteartmuseum.nd.edu.
SOUTH BEND — Smudgy, expressive lines and shadows give Jim Dine’s prints and paintings a rough-hewn, human feeling, a glimpse into an iconic artist who helped to define the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

This earthiness, which contrasts with the clean, mechanical feel of works from the movement’s compatriots like Andy Warhol, hangs in the “Jim Dine: American Icon” exhibit now through Dec. 11 at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art — 82 pieces in all. But that’s not all. They also are part of 238 prints that Dine has donated to the Snite to keep, thanks to a friendship with Director Joe Becherer.

Becherer admits he was “flabbergasted” when Dine, now 86, offered the unsolicited gift. Becherer says there may be just a handful of museums that have received substantial collections directly from Dine, who’s now living in France and Germany. Others may have purchased the artist’s works. But the sheer size, at 238 pieces, he says, “is quite something else.”

By comparison, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, he says, has more than 800 of Dine’s early prints.

The current exhibit takes a sort of biographical tour of the Cincinnati-born artist’s life from 1969 to the present — from self portraits that search his own aging mortality to Dine’s well-known study of hearts, robes and Pinocchio.
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