This traveled exhibition features selections from the Society of American Graphic Artists’ (SAGA) 89th
Annual Members Exhibition. First opened in New York City Oct 22 - Nov 3, 2024, a selection of the works from printmakers were around the country were chosen by Gallery curator, Cori Sherman North, and director, Ron Michael, to make a special encore in the Midwest. The Gallery's namesake, Birger Sandzén (1871-1954), was an active member of the print society during his lifetime, when it was known first as the Society of Brooklyn Etchers (est. 1915) and through its time as the Society for American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and Woodcutters.

Highlights from the Sandzén-Greenough Family Collection features (55) examples of etchings,
engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, and color woodcuts in the Sandzén Gallery’s permanent collection of about
8,000 works on paper. Selections on display cover an astonishing international range: Japanese color woodcuts,
French revival landscape etchings, early German “Little Masters” and Albrecht Dürer woodcuts, Dutch old
masters such as Rembrandt etchings, exquisite European portrait engravings, Swedish etchings of Anders Zorn,
B.J.O. Nordfeldt white-line woodcuts, American Regional lithographs by Grant Wood and Thomas Hart
Benton, and more. Birger Sandzén was actively involved in most of the print societies around the country,
including the Chicago Society of Etchers (1910), the Print Makers of California (1914), and the Brooklyn
Society of Etchers (1915) which went through several name changes to become what is now SAGA (Society of
American Graphic Artists), before organizing the Prairie Print Makers at his home studio in December of 1930. He was
invited to be a charter member of Kansas City’s Woodcut Society in 1932, and collected all that Society’s
presentation prints issued twice-yearly through 1947. Sandzén also joined the Society of Print Connoisseurs in
1945, as a collecting member to add commissioned prints such as Gene Kloss’ 1948 drypoint, Processional-
Taos (in this exhibition), to his personal collection.
Once Sandzén was firmly settled in central Kansas and teaching at Bethany College from 1894, he
began his own collection of original prints. When his daughter Margaret married Charles Pelham Greenough 3rd
in 1942, Sandzén found a kindred spirit as his son-in-law's print collection was as varied and deep as his own.
The family collection was eventually inherited by the Greenoughs, who opened the Birger Sandzén Memorial
Gallery in 1957 to host contemporary guest artists and to share their paintings, prints, and sculpture with a wider
audience.

in 1965, the students at the new University of Warwick began to imagine the future. Sixty years later, this exhibition explores what has changed in society since that time through the lens of the University Art Collection and its prints.
The exhibition features the works of over 60 artists and includes work by an early generation of printmakers including Josef Albers and Le Corbusier; works by a new generation in the 1960s who used screen printing to make images drawn from mass media to challenge social norms. These include Peter Blake, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol. From these beginnings, later prints in the University Art Collection present a wide range of ideas and attitudes by artists including Polly Apfelbaum, Sonia Boyce, Christian Noelle Charles, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Ilori, Lakwena, Khadija Saye, George Shaw and Emma Stibbon. The exhibition includes loans of major works by Ruth Ewan, Ellen Gallagher, David Hockney, Ciara Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Shanzhai Lyric and Sin Wai Kin.
The exhibition is home to a free, working print studio where visitors can work with our studio technician to make their own monoprints inspired by the exhibition.

Echoing the presentation ‘Is this a Delacroix? The art of copying’, the Musée Delacroix invites you to the lecture “From Goya to Delacroix: the Caprichos in 19th-century France” given by Paula Fayos-Pérez, postdoctoral researcher in Art History, in the heart of the painter's studio. [Presentation given in French]

The conference looks at the impact of Goya's Caprichos on 19th-century French art, particularly on the work of Eugène Delacroix. While the interest of the French public and the Romantic generation in Goya reached its peak in the 1830s, Delacroix was a pioneer, beginning to copy this print series around 1819. Deeply linked to his interest in caricature, expressivity and the grotesque, the Caprichos became part of his artistic imagination and led him to produce, in the following years, numerous Goyesque figures that appeared directly or indirectly in his graphic and pictorial work (as, for example, in Faust). His almost obsessive interest in Goya was part of a wider context marked by the 'Romantisme noir', a taste for Spanish art and orientalism, and he was part of the ‘Goya network’ to which artists and writers such as Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Louis Boulanger, Alfred de Musset and George Sand belonged.

The Paper Biennial "Metamorphoses" features 40 selected, international artists presenting paper works in different styles: handmade paper, recycled paper, assembled, painted, chewed, glued, engraved, cut, embossed, sewn, woven, knitted and sculpted. Some 15 workshops are on offer over the 10 days of the exhibition in Moret sur Loing (near Paris).

BIG PAPER is a play on the Italian word cartone, the art historical term for a preparatory drawing made on a one-to-one scale to the final work: carta = paper and -one = big. In the Renaissance, these cartoons were made during the production of wall-sized expanses of frescoes, tapestries and stained glass. This public conference explores paper in early modern Europe in terms of its use as sheets, pieces joined together or bound codices; relationships between books, bodies, and architectural space; period notions of “scale” and design; and the ties between drawing, monument, and myth. Thus, we take “big” to mean large in material size, but also in terms of intellectual and artistic possibilities, as well as geographic and imaginative scope.
SPEAKERS: Juliana Barone, Shira Brisman, Tracy Cosgriff, Mari Yoko Hara, Heather Macdonald, Maurizio Michelozzi, Morgan Ng, and Michael Waters
CHAIRS: Claire Farago, Frederic Nolan Clark, Lisa Pon
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"Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today" explores the development of photographic printmaking processes and traces their historical legacy into the present day. Starting around 1825, a widespread interest in reproducing visual information faster and more cheaply fueled an explosion of experimentation in photographic printmaking techniques, with wide-ranging effects across visual culture and the fine arts. This exhibition highlights those early experiments and innovations, as well as the culture of mass-market illustration and printed media into which they first unfolded. Across a presentation of over 40 historic and contemporary photogravures, collotypes, photolithographs and relief prints, this exhibition poses the question: What are the social, aesthetic, and technological possibilities that emerge from the marriage between photography and print, both then and now?

How far does the apple fall from the tree? Just as certain traits, abilities, and resources might be inherited from a parent, professions traditionally were as well. This exhibition tells the stories of 16 printmaking families active in European cities from Antwerp to Prague in the 16th and 17th centuries. In some cases, families appear artistically tight-knit, developing a “house style” to a degree that the works of individual members are almost indistinguishable from one another and their “brand” is maintained. In other instances, members of the younger generation struck out on their own, venturing far across Europe to seek new patrons and updating their style to suit changing tastes (although still trading on their parents’ reputations). The copperplates of famous relatives were valuable inheritances that, through reprinting, prolonged the legacies of certain artistic dynasties for several centuries.

Drawing from the Blanton’s collection of historical European art, A Family Affair presents prints, drawings, and paintings created by some of the continent’s most fascinating artistic families, revealing patterns of inspiration, rivalry, and changing family fortunes.

The second part of this exhibition, A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part II, 1700–1900), opens June 28, 2025.

Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions, by 26 leading experts, expand the corpus far beyond the beautiful, already well-studied images produced in European hubs like London and Paris. The chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualise the rise in colour-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements. This landmark volume, of 450 pages with 350 colour illustrations, launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields.

American Historical Print Collectors Society - Upcoming Regional Meeting
William L. Clements Library, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
Friday, December 13, 10:00 am – Noon

Join us for a walk-through of an inspired exhibit comparing original drawings by the legendary editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant to rare historical prints from the Clements Library collection. In addition, Curator of Maps and Graphics, Sierra Laddusaw, will present a peek at new acquisitions for the library’s graphic arts and map divisions. The Clements Library at the University of Michigan houses one of the nation’s greatest Americana collections.

In addition to the Clements, there are several other great museums within walking distance to complete the day – the Kelsey Museum of Archeology, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural History.

We will meet at 9:45 am on December 13 at the north entrance (glass vestibule facing campus) of the Clements for our tour. We will be asked to sign in and check coats and bags before entering the exhibit space, which is also the Clements reading room.

We will plan on gathering for lunch in the area after the Clements session.

Directions: The Clements Library is located at 909 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 on the main campus of the University of Michigan. A limited number of parking spaces may be available at two and four hour meters within the blocks adjacent to the Clements on Tappan, Monroe, and State Streets. Your best bet will be the parking ramps at 650 South Forest or 324 Maynard Streets, both within a quarter mile.

To register for the meeting, please email Clayton no later than NOVEMBER 30 at clayclem@umich.edu.

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 15 ATTENDEES.