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330 Years of Female Printmakers
330 Years of Female Printmakers 1570 - 1900
Exhibition at New York Public Library
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 -- Centered around a collection not exhibited since 1901, Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers showcases 84 printed works of art, spanning the period from 1570 to 1900, all by female printmakers. Opening at the Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street on October 2, the free show demonstrates that women have played an integral role in the print medium from its beginnings.
The collection -- assembled by forward-thinking collector Henrietta Louisa Koenen (1830-1881) and now held as part of The New York Public Library’s renowned research collections -- includes prints executed by experts and amateurs alike. Highlights from the show include works created by:
Historical figures such as Queen Victoria and Madame de Pompadour, who counted printmaking among their leisure pastimes and circulated their prints among friends, family and acquaintances. Queen Victoria, introduced to the medium by her husband Prince Albert, would often create prints that offered intimate glimpses into her domestic life.
Well known artists of the medium such as Angelica Kauffman and Maria Cosway. A print by Cosway, featured in the show, was actually a suggestive gift to Thomas Jefferson, with whom she had developed an intimate relationship while the American diplomat was in Europe.
Maria Sybilla Merian, Esther Inglis and an Geronima Parasole, whose works are held in the Library’s renowned Spencer Collection.
“Physically demanding and technically challenging, printmaking had often been considered man’s labor. However, Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s collection, put together well before twentieth-century revisionist accounts of art history were written, shows us that printmaking in particular has always been an art in which women actively engaged,” said exhibition and NYPL Prints Collection curator Madeleine Viljoen.
Complementing the show’s focus on early modern women printmakers, the Library is featuring web content devoted to the work of contemporary women printmakers held in the Library’s collection. Included are prints by Julie Buffalohead, Ambreen Butt, Valerie Hammond, Julia Jacquette, Chloe Piene, Sara Sanders, Alyson Shotz, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker and Diane Victor. In addition to showing their works on a rotating basis, several of the artists have also agreed to blog about their pieces, examining the genesis of their work as well as how their own activity relates to that of women printmakers of the past.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 -- Centered around a collection not exhibited since 1901, Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers showcases 84 printed works of art, spanning the period from 1570 to 1900, all by female printmakers. Opening at the Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street on October 2, the free show demonstrates that women have played an integral role in the print medium from its beginnings.
The collection -- assembled by forward-thinking collector Henrietta Louisa Koenen (1830-1881) and now held as part of The New York Public Library’s renowned research collections -- includes prints executed by experts and amateurs alike. Highlights from the show include works created by:
Historical figures such as Queen Victoria and Madame de Pompadour, who counted printmaking among their leisure pastimes and circulated their prints among friends, family and acquaintances. Queen Victoria, introduced to the medium by her husband Prince Albert, would often create prints that offered intimate glimpses into her domestic life.
Well known artists of the medium such as Angelica Kauffman and Maria Cosway. A print by Cosway, featured in the show, was actually a suggestive gift to Thomas Jefferson, with whom she had developed an intimate relationship while the American diplomat was in Europe.
Maria Sybilla Merian, Esther Inglis and an Geronima Parasole, whose works are held in the Library’s renowned Spencer Collection.
“Physically demanding and technically challenging, printmaking had often been considered man’s labor. However, Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s collection, put together well before twentieth-century revisionist accounts of art history were written, shows us that printmaking in particular has always been an art in which women actively engaged,” said exhibition and NYPL Prints Collection curator Madeleine Viljoen.
Complementing the show’s focus on early modern women printmakers, the Library is featuring web content devoted to the work of contemporary women printmakers held in the Library’s collection. Included are prints by Julie Buffalohead, Ambreen Butt, Valerie Hammond, Julia Jacquette, Chloe Piene, Sara Sanders, Alyson Shotz, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker and Diane Victor. In addition to showing their works on a rotating basis, several of the artists have also agreed to blog about their pieces, examining the genesis of their work as well as how their own activity relates to that of women printmakers of the past.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
★★★★★
The Guardian
'remarkable'
★★★★
The Telegraph
'Superb'
The Times
One of the ‘Highlights of the cultural year'
The Independent
This major exhibition reunites all the surviving drawings from the Witches and Old Women Album for the first time, offering a fascinating and enlightening view of a very private and personal Goya.
Drawn in the last decade of his life, the album was never meant to be seen beyond a small circle of friends. Goya gave free rein to his creativity, inventing extraordinary images that range from the humorous to the sinister and the macabre.
In this exhibition visitors are invited to discover the private world of Goya’s boundless imagination, expressed through visions and nightmares, superstitions, and the problems of old age. Above all the drawings reveal Goya’s penetrating observation of human nature: our fears, weaknesses and desires.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Pull Bite Rally - Print Exhibition at NCAD Gallery
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