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Pratt Graphic Art Center
The Pratt Graphic Art Center also called the Pratt Graphics Center was a print workshop and gallery in New York. The Center grew out of Margaret Lowengrund's Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre. In 1956 Fritz Eichenberg became the Center's director, serving until 1972 . (Sources disagree on whether Lowengrund or Eichenberg should be considered the ''founder'' of the Pratt Graphic Art Center, with most claiming Eichenberg was the founder.) The Center was associated with the Pratt Institute, providing a space specifically for printmaking. It was used by both students and established artists including Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Claes Oldenburg. The Center also published a journal, the ''Artist's Proof'' edited by Eichenberg and Andrew Stasik, and had an exhibition space. The Pratt Graphic Art Center closed in 1986. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has collected prints published by the Pratt Graphic Art Center. Artists represented in this collection incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lowengrund
Margaret Lowengrund (b. 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1957 New York) was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Lowengrund attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also studied with Joseph Pennell in New York. She founded the pioneering the Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre in 1955, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the Pratt Graphic Art Center upon her death. She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist. Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Delaware Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Newark Museum of Art the Spencer Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management ''Art in War'' exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942. Gallery Margaret Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Po Kim
Po Kim (1917 – February 7, 2014) was a Korean-American visual artist. Born in Changnyeong County, Changnyeong, Korea, Kim was among the first of a generation of Korean artists who moved to the United States in the 1950s and is one of the earliest-known Korean artists to permanently work and reside in New York City. Having received both Western and Eastern artistic training, he developed his own unique fusion of both traditions and continuously explored various styles throughout his career, from Abstract expressionism, Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, to realist still-life drawings in the 1970s and large-scale Neo-expressionism, Neo-Expressionistic figurative and allegorical works from the 1980s onward. Shortly after his death a critic called him "artist who found great inspiration in his identities as a Korean, an American, and a New Yorker," and said, "Po Kim’s artistic career was characterized by an ever-evolving style, and an eagerness to seek out new areas of inspirati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |