June 13, 1944
New Materials and prints demonstrating hand processes in the graphic arts have been installed in the Brooklyn Museum’s large print gallery on the second floor and will be current throughout the summer.
Special items are the woodblocks and prints by Max Weber, first exhibited in 1928 in the British Museum; a wood-engraving block by Daumier; copper-engraving plate and prints by Stanley William Hayter; etching plate and print by Emil Ganso and a silk screen print and its progressive stages by Henry Mark.
Other large examples showing artistic and technical excellence are included. They are as follows:
WOODCUTS
Kirchner
Munch
Schanker
Dufy
Gauguin
WOOD-ENGRAVING
Daumier
Sokol and several Polish artists
DRYPOINTS
Auguste Rodin
Sybilla M. Weber
Laboureur
ETCHINGS
Piranesi
Rossini
Braquemond
Canaletto
K. Seligmann
An Imposing collection of 19th and 20th century drawings representing the various technical aspects of this medium rounds out this summer exhibition of the graphic arts.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1942 - 1946. 04-06/1944, 063. View Original
