The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has announced a new exhibition to run from Dec. 2 through March 1, “American Abstraction: The Print Revival of the 1960s and ”™70s.”
Printed by The Collectors Press Lithography Workshop, San Francisco.
Gift of Judith and Stephen Wertheimer, Bruce Museum Collection 2011.11.05.
The exhibition features 23 works by 13 artists. Most are drawn from the gift of Judith and Stephen Wertheimer to the Bruce Museum and include prints produced by Ernest de Soto of The Collectors Press Lithography Workshop and Irwin Hollander of Hollander”™s Workshop.
All of the prints in American Abstraction are from the museum”™s permanent collection and many are being exhibited at the Bruce for the first time. Also on display is Alexander Calder”™s color lithograph Abe Ribicoff (1974), a gift of Barbaralee Diamonstein and Carl Spielvogel, and Louise Nevelson”™s Totem”™s Presents (1965), a gift of the “I Have a Dream” Foundation of Stamford.
“Printmaking is often overshadowed by other mediums that artists were working in during 1960s and ”™70s,” said Elizabeth Smith, exhibition curator. “I wanted to demonstrate that it was just as important in the development of abstract art through the post-war era and beyond.”
The exhibition is underwritten by the Connecticut Office of the Arts and The Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund.
