Join Met curators for a look at exemplary works from Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections, an installation devoted to several transformative gifts made by passionate collectors who focused their attention on specific artists, schools, or genres. This virtual event is captioned.

Presenters:
Nadine M. Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Drawings and Prints, The Met
Allison Rudnick, Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Met

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It is with sincere regret that the IPH 2020 Planning Committee announces the postponement of the 35th IPH Congress in Washington DC originally planned for September 15-18, 2020. Although we all hope that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by this fall, we cannot be certain that the outbreak will be resolved by that time. Travel within America and overseas travel from Europe to the US are both severely restricted for the foreseeable future. Potential conference speakers and attendees will wish to see how the situation resolves in their home state or country before they can commit to coming to Washington DC. It is a time when our mutual interest in paper history must yield to more pressing concerns.

Together with the IPH Council, the Planning Committee will announce a new date in 2021 for the Congress on its website. We have planned an enticing program with thirty-two outstanding speakers from around the world, and we wish to give them the opportunity to present their research to the largest possible audience. The new date for registration will be announced after the Congress dates have been determined. We thank you for your understanding and flexibility.

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“Pulse 2019” is a video contemplating the human condition. The intertwined evolution of humans in the environment, and the existence of communities both in the physical sense as well as in broader social and political sense. Throughout history, humans have also left their mark in their environment at times remarkable monuments and at times remnants reclaimed by natural elements.

In the words of the artist, “I would hope to encourage self-observation, in the context of broader surroundings and the environment. It takes a good measure of humbleness to fully comprehend one’s state and obligations, in light of corresponding relationships with others. It is pertinent, in my opinion, to exercise sufficient modesty and respect to the environment and society, our critical habitat”.

The video also focuses on the use of varied media combining drawing, woodcut, rubbing, carved wood panels and structures. Woodcuts are spoon printed on large custom-made sheets of paper. Panels of paper are hung adjacent to carved wood panels. A grid of warmer wooden matrices and cooler white prints and rubbing matching materials and their morphology as well as depicted content.

Pulse 2019, is inspired by the recent installation at the Wilfrid Israel Museum including three large works: Aurora, Laver and Doubt.

Produced by, Marjorie Shelley (Department of Paper Conservation), Ashley Dunn and Constance McPhee (Department of Drawings and Prints), Paul Lachenauer and Xue Chen (Imaging), and colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Sacramento’s most renowned artist, the Crocker Art Museum presents Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings. Best known for his tantalizing paintings of cakes and pies, Thiebaud has long been affiliated with Pop art, though his body of work is far more expansive. This exhibition represents the artist’s achievements in all media, with pieces drawn from both the Crocker’s holdings and from the collection of the Thiebaud family—many of which, until now, have never been shown publicly. For the Crocker, the show also continues a tradition of hosting a Thiebaud exhibition each decade, beginning with the artist’s first solo show in 1951, Influences on a Young Painter. In 2020, we celebrate the life and career of an artist whose work is beloved not only in California, but internationally.

How does someone build an art collection? For John A. Robertson (1943–2017), a renowned bioethics scholar and distinguished professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, the process was both dynamic and highly personal. Robertson’s wide-ranging collection of modern and contemporary works on paper, nurtured by his own passion for art, his friendship with esteemed UT art historian Richard Shiff, and a longstanding relationship with the Blanton, grew to include works by international, Texan, and UT-affiliated artists.

This exhibition celebrates Robertson’s generosity and legacy with a selection of prints, drawings, collages, and photographs from the nearly ninety works of art he donated to the Blanton. With pieces by Michael Ray Charles, Sue Coe, Philip Guston, Dorothy Hood, Terry Winters, Glenn Ligon, Peter Saul, and Richard Serra—many of which will be on view for the first time—Off the Walls presents a unique slice through recent decades of art on paper.

The exhibition will also feature UT Professor Emeritus Bill Lundberg’s pioneering film installation Swimmer (1975), which Robertson helped the Blanton acquire in 2008.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, William Peter Kosmas (1940–2017) was a London-based attorney who devoted his practice to representing and advising contemporary artists, writers, and performers. Kosmas’s professional specialties dovetailed with his lifelong passion for collecting artists’ books and works on paper, resulting in an extensive personal collection of modern and contemporary art that was recently donated to Mia by the Kosmas estate. This exhibition will feature a selection of more than 60 artists’ books and original prints by prominent European, Japanese, and American artists and writers, reflecting Kosmas’s wide-ranging interests in art, poetry, and classical literature. The display includes important works by Joan Miró, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Richard Hamilton, Shinro Ohtake, Federico García Lorca, Samuel Beckett, Josef Albers, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Betye Saar, and the German book artist Veronika Schäpers, among many others.

A spotlight exhibition of lithographs created at Tamarind in 2018 and 2019, with a special focus on prints by recipients of the Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency. Featured Artists: Noel Anderson, Judy Chicago, Luke Dubois, Harold Mendez, Mark Mulroney, Aaron Noble, Danielle Orchard, Shinique Smith, and Hayal Pozanti. Tamarind is a division of the College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico. Public gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday; 10 am – 4 pm.

From APS Member Julie Mellby:

Stuck at home? Like 19th c French prints? I have posted a crowdsourcing project involving our French chromolithography. Good for individuals or a class assignment.

Thank you, stay well,
Julie Mellby
jmellby@princeton.edu

Celebrating the opening of the Robert Blackburn and Modern American Printmaking exhibition, join us for a special evening centered on the life and artistry of Jamaican American printmaker, Robert Blackburn. Driven by his mission for community access and engagement, diversity and inclusion, unpack Blackburn’s work, vision, legacy and impact on artists today. Leading the conversation will be Deborah Cullen, exhibition curator, and Essye Klempner, Program and Exhibition Manager of the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program with Stephanie Fox Knappe, Nelson-Atkins’ Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, moderating.

Free, tickets required.