November 6, 1946
A new exhibition of prints by the members of VANGUARD opens in the Museum’s print gallery November 6 to be current through December 15,
Twenty-two modern artists, having a common interest in new and experimental approaches to the field of fine prints, organized, in 1945, a graphic arts group known as VANGUARD. They propose not only to explore new ideas and techniques within the printing arts, but to encourage and stimulate a more general interest in modern graphic art by circulating exhibitions of their work.
Concerned with contemporary hand processes in all print media, the members of VANGUARD work in woodcut, wood-engraving, copper engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy and lumiprinting. Their first exhibition as a group, held at the Philadelphia Print Club in October 1945, was highly successful. Since then, VANGUARD has held exhibitions in a number of museums, schools and art associations throughout the United States,
The Artists participating in this group exhibition are:
Vera Berdich
Werner Drewes
Cliffe Eitel
R. Vale Faro
Francine Felsenthal
Sue Fuller
A. P. Hankins
Stanley William Hayter
Medard Klein
Edward Landon
Mauricio Lasansky
Ezio Martinelli
Leonard Nelson
Dimitri Petrov
Bob Rainey
Abraham Rattner
Anne Ryan
Peter Sager
Louis Schanker
Kurt L. Seligmann
Albert Urban
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1942 - 1946. 10-12/1946, 136. View Original
