The Tennessee State Museum announced that it has entered into a promised gift agreement with Walter and Sarah Knestrick of Nashville to receive a donation of 238 graphic artworks created by internationally acclaimed artist Red Grooms (American, born 1937). Additionally, the museum will receive 52 commercially printed posters as part of the gift.

There are plans for Grooms’ graphic work to be on exhibit in one of the art galleries in the new State Museum, scheduled to open in 2018.

The Clark Art Institute’s newly renovated Manton Research Center will open to the public on November 12, 2016. The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper and Works on Paper Gallery will house the Clark’s collection of more than 6,000 prints, drawings, and photographs which spans the history of the graphic arts from the fifteenth century through the early twentieth century. Greatly enhanced from the previous study room with abundant natural light and double the space, the new study center provides state-of-the-art storage and broader access to the collection for researchers, scholars, students, and the general public. Visitors will be able to schedule appointments, or drop in during public hours, to request to see specific works of art.

A gallery dedicated to the exhibition of works on paper is adjacent to the study center. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Photography and Discovery, will be selected from the Clark’s growing collection of photographs and highlights more than forty works by American and European photographers.

Twenty-five of the very rare, mammoth Jubilee editions of "Brother Jonathan" have been posted online at the Princeton University Digital Library. These are the largest newspapers published in the United States and include wood engravings 3 x 4 feet in size. An announcement is posted at the link attached.

The landing page for the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection in the Drawings and Prints Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched on the Museum's website. The vast collection consists of approximately 303,000 advertising inserts, postcards, and posters that tells the history of popular printmaking in the United States from the 1890s to the 1960s. The landing page features an online catalogue, exhibition listings, blog posts, and more.