Curator Position Established
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
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 abstractions. This retrospective exhibition was the first dedicated to her printed works and brought together over…
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 [hr] The Picture that Remains reveals the power of collaboration. Together photographer Will Brown and poet Thomas Devaney created a book that accentuates the beauty and…
Elizbeth Osborne, Morning Sea, 2005, Archival pigment print, etching with Chine Collé, 11 x 10 inches, Edition of 12
Anne Schuster Hunter directed The Print Center from 1987 to 1989. During her tenure she focused on returning The Print Center to its historical position as an organization encouraging printmaking and photography in all forms as exciting, adventurous, contemporary media. She and Hester Stinnett co-directed The Print Club Residency Series, inviting prominent artists to collaborate with Philadelphia…
The Print Center Residency Series, co-directed by Anne Schuster Hunter and Hester Stinnett, operated between 1988 and 1991. Artists Robert Cumming, Lois Lane, Winifred Lutz and Art Spiegelman were invited to work with lithographic master printer Timothy Sheesley and Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut printer Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi, with whom they produced print editions. The Print Club Residency Program…
In 1944, Berthe von Moschzisker, daughter of one of The Print Center’s founding members, was appointed the second Director of The Print Center, a position she held for the next 25 years. Her tenure was notable for many reasons, including her embrace of modernism and her introduction of printed works by important European artists to an American…