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The Print Center’s Original Location: 219 South 17th Street, Philadelphia
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, “Wall space in such quarters was sufficient only for a make-shift gallery. The print movement…
Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford: Our First Director
In 1925, Mrs. Crawford was appointed the first Director. Earlier, the organization had been led by the efforts of Mrs. Laurence Eyre, the first President, Executive Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Forbes Dallam, and her assistant, Miss Flora Lash.
The Print Center Edition: Ieva Iltnere
Ieva Iltnere, Table, 1995, Etching, 9 x 12 inches, Edition of 20 Ieva Iltnere, Six Girls, 1995, Etching, 9 x 12 inches, Edition of 8 Ieva Iltnere, Evening No. 9, 1995, Etching, 9 x 11 inches, Edition of 10
Lessing J. Rosenwald, Print Collector
Lessing J. Rosenwald (1891 – 1979), the celebrated collector, had a life-long passion for prints and drawings from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. Over time, he gave over 20,000 prints and drawings to the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Rosenwald, whose home, Alverthorpe Manor, is now the Abington Arts Center,…
The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Will Stokes Jr.
The Fabric Workshop & Museum (FWM) was founded in 1977 by Marion “Kippy” Stroud (1939 – 2015) after she had spent many years as a Board member of The Print Center and the Artistic Director of Prints in Progress. While FWM has become internationally recognized for its ambitious commissions to many of today’s most significant…
