{"id":2665,"date":"1941-01-01T13:18:41","date_gmt":"1941-01-01T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:16:38","slug":"carl-zigrosser-print-curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1941\/01\/01\/carl-zigrosser-print-curator\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Zigrosser, Print Curator"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2753\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 204px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/01\/Zigrosser-by-Paone.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/01\/Zigrosser-by-Paone-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zigrosser by Paone\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/01\/Zigrosser-by-Paone-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/01\/Zigrosser-by-Paone-260x382.jpg 260w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941\/01\/Zigrosser-by-Paone.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Peter Paone, <em>Homage to C. Zigrosser<\/em>, Etching, 1963 Published by The Print Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1941 Carl Zigrosser was appointed as the first Curator of Prints, Drawings and Rare Books at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/\">Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>, a position he held until 1963. Under Zigrosser&#8217;s direction, the collection grew dramatically and came to include a number of important gifts ranging from a group of Watteau engravings from <a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1942\/10\/19\/inauguration-of-the-print-center-permanent-collection-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art\/\">Lessing J. Rosenwald<\/a> to Alfred Stieglitz&#8217; collection of photographs. Zigrosser had a long and close relationship with The Print Center, serving as a Board member, speaking regularly, jurying exhibitions and building The Print Club Permanent Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since his tenure, a curator from the museum\u2019s Department of Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs has regularly served on the Board of Governors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1941 Carl Zigrosser was appointed as the first Curator of Prints, Drawings and Rare Books at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a position he held until 1963. Under Zigrosser&#8217;s direction, the collection grew dramatically and came to include a &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1941\/01\/01\/carl-zigrosser-print-curator\/\" aria-label=\"Carl Zigrosser, Print Curator\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timeline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}