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Pressed in Time: American Prints 1905 - 1950

Oct. 6, 2007 – Jan. 6, 2008

Boone Gallery

The first half of the 20th century was an extraordinarily dynamic moment in the history of American printmaking. The era marked great changes in the visual arts, and prints recorded concurrent shifts in social and cultural behavior. Artists firmly grounded in Academic technique and 19th-century values used etching, engraving, and lithography to captured the genteel morals and manners of the era. A new group of social realists, some of whom were members of the so-called Ash Can School, began to take on the life of the streets as their primary subject in prints as well as paintings. At the same time, printmakers began to explore modernist aesthetics, particularly after the Armory Show of 1914. Toward the end of the period, artists who came to be called Regionalists took on life west of the Mississippi as the subject for their prints. This exhibition, drawn from the art collections of The Huntington and two private collections, Hannah S. Kully, and the John Sloan collection of Gary, Brenda, and Harrison Ruttenberg, will feature more than 100 prints by artists such as Childe Hassam, Martin Lewis, George Bellows, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, and Grant Wood. More about the exhibition...

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A Stag at Sharkey’s	George Wesley Bellows, 1882-1925 1917. Lithograph Gift of the Frances and Sidney Brody Charitable Fund, Inc., Kelvin L. Davis, Stan and Judith Farrar, Paul and Heather Haaga, Margery and Maurice H. Katz, Russel and Hannah Kully, Margaret Richards, The Virginia Steele Scott Foundation, Warren and Alyce Williamson, Robert and Deborah Wycoff
Coney Island	Harry Shokler, 1896-1978 ca. 1940. Color screenprint Collection of Hannah S. Kully
Death of a Forest	Paul Landacre, 1893-1963 1938. Wood engraving Collection of Hannah S. Kully
Fun, One Cent	John Sloan, 1871-1951 1905. Etching Collection of Gary, Brenda, and Harrison Ruttenberg
Glow in the City	Martin Lewis, 1881-1962 1929. Drypoint Purchased with funds from Hannah and Russel Kully
Night Shadows	Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 1921/1924. Etching Collection of Hannah S. Kully
Haying	Bernard Steffen, 1907-1980 1946. Color screenprint Collection of Hannah S. Kully
The Lindy Hop	Miguel Covarrubias, 1904-1957 1936. Lithograph Collection of Hannah S. Kully Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Miguel Covarrubias
Man’s Canyons	Samuel Margolies, 1898-1974 1936. Etching and aquatint Collection of Hannah S. Kully
Man with Drill	Charles Turzak 1899-1986 ca. 1935. Woodcut Collection of Hannah S. Kully Printed with the permission of Joan Turzak Van Hees, daughter of Charles Turzak, Charles Turzak Studio/Gallery, Orlando Florida.
Singing Woods	Gustave Baumann, 1881-1971 1928. Color woocut with aluminum leaf Collection of Hannah S. Kully Reproduced courtesy of Ann Baumann
The Fugitive	John Steuart Curry, 1897-1946 1935. Lithograph Collection of Hannah S. Kully
The White Kimono	Childe Hassam, 1859-1935 1915. Etching Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Wonders of Our Time	Ida Abelman, 1910-2002 1937 Lithograph Collection of Hannah S. Kully