July 1, 1963: ARTISTS INVITED TO ENTER 14th NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION AT BROOKLYN MUSEUM
The following is information for advance calendar listings on the 14th National Print Exhibition.
Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn 38, New York, Department of Prints and Drawings.
Fourteenth National Print Exhibition, March 2 through May 31, 1964.
Open to all artists working in the United States. All Print Media. Jury. Fee $2.00
Date for entries: On or before November 27, 1963.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1953 - 1970. 1963, 016.
March 3, 1964: An exhibition of 165 prints in various media opens today, March 3, at The Brooklyn Museum. Representing contemporary work being done by artists living and working in 30 states, the show will remain on view at the Museum through August 16.
During the years of its existence, The Brooklyn Museum’s National Print Exhibitions have achieved a considerable reputation at home and abroad for their presentation of graphic work that is alive and of our time. Prints for this exhibition were chosen from among 2000 entries received from every state in the Union.
Acting as jurors were Arthur Deshaies, artist and Director of the Graphic Workshop, Florida State University; Abram Lerner, Curator of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection.; and Una E. Johnson, Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Brooklyn Museum. Purchase prizes have been awarded to Robert Broner, Judith Hahn, Peter Hooven, John Hultberg, Boris Margo, Michael Mazur, Ramon E. Oeschger, Olimpia A. Ogilvie, Gabor Peterdi, Andrew Rush, Robert T. Shuler, Arthur Thrall, and John von Wicht.
Of special interest is the prize-winning cellocut "In Memoriam" by Boris Margo, designed as a tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. Two other memorial prints, each entitled "November 22, 1963", by R.A. Smith and Nicholas George Sperakis were also accepted from a number of works in this category.
A greater number of painters have submitted prints this year than in former exhibitions. Included are works by John Hultberg, Sam Francis, Adja Yunkers, Gabor Peterdi, Seong Moy, Will Barnet, George Miyasaki, Angelo Savelli and William Kent, a sculptor.
Michael Mazur actually worked in the closed ward of a large New York mental hospital to obtain material for a large portfolio of prints, one of which “Closed Ward No. 12, Three Beds”, is a prize winner.
Most of the prints are intaglio (etching, engraving and mixed methods) and include abstractions, pop art and representational pieces. Una Johnson notes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue that “Although in a number of instances prints approach painting in their general effect, a sizable group are in black and white rather than in bright and flooding colors which have set the tone of earlier exhibitions.”
Artists range in age from 21 to 76. The majority of the accepted prints were produced in the New York area, California and the midwest, where large, well-equipped graphic workshops are located, usually connected with outstanding universities and supervised by leading artists.
An illustrated catalogue is available.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1953 - 1970. 1964, 002-3.
