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Showing posts with label contemporary woodcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contemporary woodcuts. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Anderson, Seward, Fowler, Jones
Frank Hartley Anderson was a miniature print/bookplate collector, who wanted to feature print makers the way Alfred Fowler had done. In 1936 as Secretary-Treasurer Anderson started the Southern Print Makers.
Coy Avon Seward was a miniature print/bookplate collector, who wanted to feature print makers the way Alfred Fowler had done. Seward became Director of the Kansas Federation of Art, out of Wichita, Kansas. His group was a sponsor for the American Block Print tour.
Coy Avon Seward was a miniature print/bookplate collector, who wanted to feature print makers the way Alfred Fowler had done. Seward became Director of the Kansas Federation of Art, out of Wichita, Kansas. His group was a sponsor for the American Block Print tour.
Michael W. Jones is a modern day miniature print/bookplate collector. Like Fowler, Anderson and Seward, Jones enjoys featuring print artists. He invites them to take part in a print exchange. Each artist creates an edition of 23 prints, and sends that edition to Jones. He, in turn, separates the editions into sets, and sends a set to each participating artist. A recent "Black And White" exchange took place. Print makers took part from Australia, Canada, France, Russia, and the United States. I took part in the print exchange myself, cutting and submitting my own linocut. I asked participating artists about their involvement, to better understand a print artist like Fred Geary. You can read about what I found HERE.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Catalogue of The First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Woodcuts
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This exhibit was at the Brooklyn Museum as Woodcut Society: 01st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Woodcuts, June 6, 1933 through June 30, 1933.
(courtesy of the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO, accessed December 4, 2010. Brooklyn Museum, http://brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/1509, accessed February 22, 2010)
Friday, December 31, 2010
Contemporary Woodcuts 1932 - Traveling Exhibition
Alfred Fowler learned about the wood blocks of Richardson Rome through the Alden Galleries and John Bender. When Fowler assembled the first exhibition of Contemporary Woodcuts in 1932, Rome's work was included, along with wood blocks by Fred Geary.
In his introduction to Prints 1490-1995, The Collections of the Nelson-Adkins Museum, curator George L. McKenna spoke about the traveling exhibits arranged by the Woodcut Society, "In addition, the Society sponsored traveling exhibitions, opening in Kansas City, in 1932, 1933, 1935, and 1936, of woodcuts by contemporary American and European artists. Participants submitted two impressions of each of their prints, one for circulation and one for a permanent collection. The latter, comprising 212 examples, was presented to the (Nelson-Adkins) Museum between 1935 and 1939, forming the nucleus of our holdings of modern woodcuts." (The Collections of the Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art: Prints, 1460-1995 by George L. McKenna, 1996, pg.xi, courtesy of Carrollton Public Library, 1 North Folger Street, Carrollton, Missouri, United States, accessed December 31, 2010)
In his publication The Story of The Woodcut Society (1934) John Bender noted, while the commissioned prints by the Society were important, "its annual exhibitions are of considerable importance to the arts of the woodcut in general. Woodcuts designed or cut during the calendar year are eligible and the shows are called Exhibitions of Contemporary Woodcuts to indicate that they include current prints only. The exhibition for the 1932 traveled for a year and a half and was viewed by thousands of people in a dozen of our cities. The exhibition for 1933 is now being shown under the auspices of the College Art Association. No prizes are offered, but it is thought that the artists benefit greatly by having their prints brought to the attention of so many people and a considerable number of sales usually result. All inquiries for the purchase of prints are referred directly to the artists themselves and no commission is charged, since the Society has nothing to do with the matter after referring it to the artist who work is involved." (excerpt from The Story of The Woodcut Society, October 1934, p. 9, edited by John Bender and published by the Alden Galleries, 1026 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, courtesy of the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO, accessed December 4, 2010. Colored type has been added by me.)
In his introduction to Prints 1490-1995, The Collections of the Nelson-Adkins Museum, curator George L. McKenna spoke about the traveling exhibits arranged by the Woodcut Society, "In addition, the Society sponsored traveling exhibitions, opening in Kansas City, in 1932, 1933, 1935, and 1936, of woodcuts by contemporary American and European artists. Participants submitted two impressions of each of their prints, one for circulation and one for a permanent collection. The latter, comprising 212 examples, was presented to the (Nelson-Adkins) Museum between 1935 and 1939, forming the nucleus of our holdings of modern woodcuts." (The Collections of the Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art: Prints, 1460-1995 by George L. McKenna, 1996, pg.xi, courtesy of Carrollton Public Library, 1 North Folger Street, Carrollton, Missouri, United States, accessed December 31, 2010)
In his publication The Story of The Woodcut Society (1934) John Bender noted, while the commissioned prints by the Society were important, "its annual exhibitions are of considerable importance to the arts of the woodcut in general. Woodcuts designed or cut during the calendar year are eligible and the shows are called Exhibitions of Contemporary Woodcuts to indicate that they include current prints only. The exhibition for the 1932 traveled for a year and a half and was viewed by thousands of people in a dozen of our cities. The exhibition for 1933 is now being shown under the auspices of the College Art Association. No prizes are offered, but it is thought that the artists benefit greatly by having their prints brought to the attention of so many people and a considerable number of sales usually result. All inquiries for the purchase of prints are referred directly to the artists themselves and no commission is charged, since the Society has nothing to do with the matter after referring it to the artist who work is involved." (excerpt from The Story of The Woodcut Society, October 1934, p. 9, edited by John Bender and published by the Alden Galleries, 1026 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, courtesy of the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO, accessed December 4, 2010. Colored type has been added by me.)
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