Post-Impressionist Prints

4 January–6 March 1988

The period from 1886, the date of the last Impressionist exhibition, until the turn of the century, marked a revival of the woodcut process of printmaking, and a re-evaluation of the lithograph. The pervasive philosophical force in the subject matter of the period aligned with Symbolism as it emerged and evolved in the writing of Stephane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire. The works in this exhibition by Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Ensor, Maximilien Luce, and Paul Albert Besnard, were involved in this rebirth of the graphic arts.
Curator: H. Rafael Chacón, graduate student assistant, from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection. 

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