Now on view through May 23, 2015
Center for
Contemporary Printmaking,
299 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT.
299 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT.
On Sunday, April 19, Susan Teller is to speak at
the reception.
It was the
artist George Biddle who told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that “Artists
Must Be Included in the WPA.”
Louis Lozowick
Subway Station, NYC, 1936
CCP director
and exhibition curator Laura Einstein selected the show from our extensive
WPA-era collection. A percentage of the proceeds of sales from the exhibition
will be donated to the Center.
The show
features prints made in the WPA-era, many actually published by the WPA with
the related stamps or blind stamps. Louis Schanker and Lynd Ward, who served as
supervisors of the relief division in NYC, are both featured, as are Will
Barnet, Riva Helfond, Michael J. Gallagher, and Harry Sternberg, who also held
teaching or administrative positions. Pennsylvania, California, and Ohio
workshops are also represented.
