Robert Grigor-Taylor: Our Third Director

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Grigor-Taylor was the Director from 1969-1973. Grigor-Taylor introduced artists from California and England who were unknown on the east coast. In 1971 he presented a solo exhibition of R. B. Kitaj’s complete graphic work (The Print Center purchased Photo-Eye, color silkscreen, 1970, for its permanent collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), and in 1973 he curated a group exhibition of California printmakers including Vija Celmins, William Crutchfield, Tony Delap, Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha.