The Print Center Edition: Lydia Panas
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Lydia Panas, Ashley, 2013, Archival Pigment Print, 8 x 8 inches, Edition of 25
Tea at The Print Center
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The Print Center was founded as a club, much like its sister organizations The Philadelphia Sketch Club and The Plastic Club. In addition to offering exhibitions, the organization served a social function and was well-known for its afternoon teas, served … Read More
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exhibition Exchange
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The Print Center has organized dozens of traveling exhibitions that have visited organizations throughout both the region and the world. In our early history, we had a particularly close relationship with the Brooklyn Museum of Art. At least a dozen … Read More
Annual International Competition
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The Print Center’s Annual International Competition is one of the oldest competitions of its kind. The first Annual Exhibition of American Etchers was held in 1924 and subsequent competitions in the early years focused on other print processes, including block printing and lithography. … Read More
WPA’s Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop
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During the New Deal era, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) engaged over 10,000 artists in communities across the US. In Philadelphia, a Fine Print Workshop was established in the same building where a WPA/FAP Poster Workshop was … Read More
Leopold Stokowski Letter
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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (1882 – 1977), the renowned conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was an early patron of The Print Center. In this letter from 1916, he apologies to Judge Jasper Brinton, one of the founders of the organization, for … Read More
The Print Center’s Original Location: 219 South 17th Street, Philadelphia
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The Print Center has made its home at 1614 Latimer Street since 1917, but our first location was around the corner, in a small office at 219 South 17th Street. An early history of the organization described it this way, … Read More
The Print Center Publication: Will Brown & Thomas Devaney, The Picture that Remains
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The Picture that Remains, 2014 Photographs by Will Brown and Poems by Thomas Devaney with an introduction by Vincent Katz Hardcover, 8 1/2″ x 11″, 64 pages, 38 quadtone images The Picture that Remains reveals the power of collaboration. Together photographer … Read More
Color Motion: Edna Andrade Prints
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The exhibition and publication were made possible by special project support from the Estate of Edna Wright Andrade. Exhibition September 14 – November 17, 2012 Noted Philadelphia artist Edna Andrade (1917-2008) is best known for her hard-edged Op Art … Read More
The Print Center Edition: Matt Neff
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Matt Neff, Untitled, 2014, Archival pigment print facemounted to Plexiglas, 9 x 12 inches, Edition of 20