The American Color Print

18 June–18 August 1991

The more than 20 prints in The American Color Print explore how American printmaking encompasses traditional media such as woodcut, screenprinting, and lithography, as well as remarkable experimental and mixed techniques. Some works were printed entirely by the artist on small hand presses, and others are the creative result of an artist working with master printers in fine arts print studios. Works on display from the early 20th century include Stanley Williiam Hayter’s intaglio prints, created in his famed New York studio, Atelier 17, and German émigré Gustave Baumann’s multi-colored woodcut of a sun-drenched desert in the American southwest. The mid-20th century is represented by Andy Warhol’s pop image of a Campbell’s tomato soup can silkscreened on a shopping bag is a wry commentary on late 1960s consumerism in America and a lithograph depicting a rural American scene by preeminent African American artist Romare Bearsden.

The exhibition was funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council. 

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