September
8 through November 4, 2011, The Grolier Club will be featuring an unusual joint
exhibition: Steel & Roses. Roses: Botanical Books section refers to the eighteenth and nineteenth century
volumes collected by Fern Cohen. Steel refers to mid-twentieth century
American prints collected by her husband, Hersh Cohen. Among works in Steel are etchings or
lithographs by PEGGY BACON, FRED BECKER, ABE BLASHKO, BERNARDA BRYSON SHAHN,
RIVA HELFOND, ALBERT POTTER, WILLIAM E. SMITH, HARRY STERNBERG, and LYND WARD.
Harry Sternberg, Drilling a Breast, 1937, lithograph, 15 x 21 |
The Grolier Club is located at 47 East 60th Street, NYC.