Contribution to V&A's 150th anniversary album
2007
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2007
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Contribution to V&A's 150th anniversary album is a 2007 by Marie-Jean Lecca, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 2007, the V&A asked 150 artists to make a page for a 150th birthday album. Marie-Jean Lecca drew hers to mark the museum’s long run in South Kensington. Her work is a drawing, one of many styles they accepted. The album became a time capsule of how artists saw the V&A that year. Lecca’s page is part of a larger project celebrating the museum’s history. Look up the artist Lecca, Marie-Jean next.
The album page by Marie-Jean Lecca features a drawing of Victorian parents in black and white alongside their modern punk-styled children rendered in color. Created in 2007 for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 150th anniversary, the contribution is one of 150 pages by artists, designers, and architects expressing inspiration drawn from the museum’s collections. The page appears in volume two of a three-volume set containing 60 contributions.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Marie-Jean Lecca carried a sketchbook everywhere, like a second layer of skin. She once doodled on napkins during a Paris dinner, turning coffee rings into faces. That habit stuck—her quick, loose lines feel like…
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