The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair

Peggy Bacon, Votes for Women, 1915

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair is currently on view in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, March 17 through March 20, 2011. Fourteen dealers are showing, all International Fine Print Dealers Association members. At this fair we are featuring works by women: Peggy Bacon (in advance of our April show), Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Marguerite Zorach. Will Barnet, James Daugherty, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, and Hugh Mesibov, round out the group.

Peter Grippe: Prints and Drawings

 







The City, 1934, drawing, 14x12 inches


Grippe (1912-2002) was born in Buffalo, NY. He studied at the Albright-Knox Art School and the Art Institute of Buffalo. A member of the American Abstract Artists group, in the early 1940s he studied with Stanley William Hayter at the New York intaglio printmaking workshop, Atelier 17; he later served as director. In the summer of 1948 he taught sculpture at Black Mountain College and later taught at the Pratt Institute and Smith College. He was the first professor of sculpture and graphics at Brandeis University. In 2010 the Allentown Art Museum showed: Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary. His work is in permanent collections throughout the country.

through November 27, 2010

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to  5 PM