EDGAR DEGAS:
THE PRIVATE IMPRESSIONIST
Works on Paper by the Artist
& His Circle
Although often aloof to strangers, Degas elicited great reciprocal warmth and loyalty from his family, and as well from a wide circle of friends that included some of the greatest writers and artists of the epoch. This special exhibition, which is drawn from a single private collection, consists of more than 70 works: 20 drawings; 13 prints; 3 photographs; 2 monotypes; 1 sculpture; and a letter, all by Degas; along with 15 color aquatint facsimiles after Degas’ monotypes commissioned shortly after the artist’s death by his friend and dealer, Ambroise Vollard. Supplementing the works by Degas in the exhibition will be a select group of 17 rare works on paper by artists whose friendship he shared, including, Marcellin Desboutin, Hippolyte Flandrin, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse Legros, Gustave Moreau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, and others. In its special focus the exhibition endeavors to illuminate the background, personality, and uniqueness of Edgar Degas the man, as well as presenting his genius as an artist. Curated by Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus, Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A color catalogue with an essay by Johnson will be published.

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RAOUL DUFY:
A CELEBRATION OF BEAUTY
A new international traveling exhibition, Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty about the French artist, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), and his far-reaching influence as a painter, textile designer, and printmaker is now being made available for presentation at museums worldwide. The exhibition was organized by the Humanities Exchange, Montreal, Canada. In 2006 it successfully toured museums in Japan, including: the Daimaru Museum, Osaka; the Iwaki City Art Museum; the Shizuoka Art Gallery and the Daimaru Museum, Tokyo. Attendance averaged 1000 visitors per day. The exhibition includes over 100 paintings, watercolors, drawings and woodcuts from European private collections -- the great majority never exhibited before -- and over 75 original fabric projects presented from the archives of Bianchini-Ferier, in Lyon, France, offering an unprecedented view of the oeuvre of Dufy. This exhibition acknowledges the universal character of his work, the astonishing range of his creative energy, and his eminent place in the history of art. The exhibition is a re-appraisal of the work of Dufy and covers his long career from about 1900 until 1953.

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GASTON LACHAISE:
SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS
International Traveling Exhibition
The GASTON LACHAISE: SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS Exhibition is returning from a highly successful tour of museums in Europe. It is currently scheduled for presentation at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in the Fall of 2007. The exhibition includes a total of 75 sculptures, including 7 monumental works by Lachaise never before exhibited together at one time, and 20 drawings. Lachaise, born in France, is best known for his interpretations in bronze of the female form, and is considered to be one of the most significant sculptors to have worked in the US during the early part of thie 20th Century.  His sculptures are included in the collections of MOMA, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The San Francisco Museum of Art, UCLA; the Chicago Art Institute; The Hirshhorn Museum, Wash., DC; and numerous others. A special catalogue is planned for the exhibition.

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LYNN CHADWICK: IN CONTACT
Sculpture from the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College
One of several talented British sculptors who burst upon the international art scene in the late 1950s, Lynn Chadwick helped establish an entirely new vocabulary for this form of art. Inspired by the career of Henry Moore, Chadwick's work exhibits a fascinating evolution of personal images; a series of animals, birds, imaginary beasts and rhythmic double and/or triple figures characterized by their thrusting energy. Other more static forms called "Watchers" or "Strangers" stand alone or in totemic groups, expressing a monolithic power. The 40 medium and small sculptures, and 5 lithographs in the exhibition are drawn from the permanent collection of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College which includes 137 works spanning the years of 1954 to 1984.

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RICHMOND BARTHE:
HIS LIFE IN ART
Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. Following his graduation from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928, Barthé moved to New York and established a studio in Harlem where he became associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He is also known for his many public works. The exhibition is curated by esteemed art historian, Samella Lewis, Ph.D., in conjunction with the publication of her new extensive biography Richond Barthé, His Life In Art. Included in the exhibition are 30 sculptures plus 10 photomurals of Barthe and his public works. The exhibition tour will begin in the Fall of 2009 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of Arfrican American History, Detroit, MI and will then be available for scheduling beginning in 2010 through 2012. The exhibition is being organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions.

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PABLO PICASSO:
ETCHINGS 1966-1971
Forty rare “before steel facing” etchings by the 20th century master, Pablo Picasso, are featured in a new exhibition organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions. Picasso follows Rembrandt, Durer and Goya, in extending and developing the etching tradition. Etching was the favorite printmaking method of these masters, and was especially favored by Picasso. The Picasso engravings in the exhibition were done between 1966 and 1971 are rare “before steel facing” proofs. They are early proofs printed long before their respective editions were pulled, and are richer in contrast than the regular editions. They were kept by Picasso for his personal collection in the course of creating his 60, 156 and 347 Series. The works in this exhibition come from the collection of Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.

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Elizabeth Catlett

Charles White

MIXOGRAFÍA®: INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION
In 1968 Luis and Lea Remba opened their print workshop to artists and began printing lithographs.  Celebrated Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo’s desire for more volume and texture in his prints inspired Luis Remba to invent the Mixografía® technique in 1973 which prints the artist’s image in a 3-dimensional relief with fine surface detail.  Mixografía® produces prints on handmade paper, cast-copper multiples and sculpture that expand the language of traditional editions by giving the artist greater choice. This exhibition presents a 30-year survey of a variety of innovative projects from the workshop focusing on the Mixografía® prints coupled with sculpture multiples by 24 American, European, Latin-American and Asian artists including: Arman, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Stanley Boxer, Helen Frankenthaler, Gunther Gerzso, Mathias Goeritz, Donald Lipski, Richard Meier, Henry Moore, Mimmo Paladino, Jorge Pardo, Seo-bo Park, Ed Ruscha, Julião Sarmento, Georges Segal, Kiki Smith, Donald Sultan, Rufino Tamayo, Tom Wesselmann, Terry Winters and Peter Wüthrich. The exhibition was organized by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR., where it was presented in 2009. The exhibition.was curated by Annette Dixon, Curator, Portland Art Museum. All artworks are courtesy of individual artists, their estates, and the Mixografía® Workshop

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RUFINO TAMAYO: A Comprehensive Survey of His Mixografía® Prints
In the early 1970s, Luis and Lea Remba invited Rufino Tamayo to collaborate in printmaking at their workshop in Mexico City.  Tamayo was interested, but made it clear that he was looking for new horizons within the medium – particularly seeking ways to get more volume and texture into his prints.  This artistic challenge was the impetus for Remba to invent the Mixografía® printing technique. Rufino Tamayo was the first artist to work in the Mixografía® print process producing 67 editions along with some lithographs over a 17-year period until his death.  These workshop editions represent one-fifth of his total out-put in printmaking during his lifetime. Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1899. Tamayo attended the Academy of Fine Arts as a young adult from 1917 – 1921 and began exhibiting in 1926 with solo shows in New York and Mexico City.  His work has been exhibited continually ever since.  His career and his style constantly evolved, juxtaposing the primitive and mystical, the ideological and emotional. The exhibition contains 41 prints created between 1974 and 1990, and includes the mural-size Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros, 1983, (“Two People Attacked by Dogs”) measuring 61 x 98 inches, and pulled from the largest litho stone in the world. All artworks are courtesy of individual artists, their estates, and the Mixografía® Workshop.

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Jaune Quick To See Smith

Enrique Chagoya

Carrie Mae Weems

William Wiley

EMOTIONAL IMPACT:
FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM AMERICAN STYLE
From the Kresge Art Museum,
East Lansing, MI
In America, starting in the 1950s--the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and New York’s takeover of the center of the artworld – a number of artists, in New York, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and around the country, decided to return to the figure. But as they were profoundly committed to the energetic Abstract Expressionist way of painting that had been formative of their styles, they would not give it up, choosing instead to adapt it to their equally profound need to paint recognizable imagery.The 50 paintings, works on paper and graphics of more than 30 major American Figurative Expressionists have been organized by Kresge Art Museum Curator April Kingsley into an exhibition which will open at the Kresge Art Museum in fall/winter 2010 and then be available to travel to other venues starting in 2011. The catalogue, published by the Michigan State University Press, will have approximately 200 pages and 50 color reproductions. Artists include: Robert Beauchamp, Miriam Beerman, Nell Blaine, Nanno de Groot, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Robert de Niro, Sr., Richard Diebenkorn, Sherman Drexler, Louis Finkelstein, Sideo Fromboluti, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Robert Henry, Oliver Jackson, Lester Johnson, Wolf Kahn, Vera Klement, Irving Kriesberg, Nicholas Marsicano, George McNeil, Jay Milder, Nathan Oliviera, David Park, Joan Savo, Nora Speyer, Bob Thompson, Selina Trieff, Hiram Williams, Paul Wonner.

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JACOB LAWRENCE: PRINTS
From the Collection of Alitash Kebede
The exhibition features 28 graphic works by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) done between 1971-1997. Included are 10 works from the Toussaint L'Ouverture Series, the Hiroshima Series of 8 prints, 2 prints from the Genesis Series, 2 prints from the Builders Series and 6 other important prints by Lawrence including Confrontation at the Bridge and Forward Together. Also included are text panels with an introductory exhibition essay, a chronology, and a photomural of the artist. The exhibition includes an essay about Lawrence and his printmaking by Peter Nesbett. Nesbett is the Editor of  Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000) / The Catalogue Raisonne. The works come from the collection of Alitash Kebede of Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition and museum tour are organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of  Los Angeles, CA.

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EDWARD HAGEDORN:
CALIFORNIA MODERNIST
Edward Hagedorn (American 1902-1982) managed to convey the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression years, 1925-1935--more forcefully than any of his contemporaries. During his career Hagedorn successfully engaged in a wide variety of modernist styles, including Expressionism and Surrealism, but because of his solitary and eccentric personality there was only limited exposure and recognition of his artistic accomplishments in his lifetime. He attracted the attention of Galka Scheyer, the German emissary in America of the famed Blue Four, who, asked him to become the fifth member of the group, although her offer was refused. “In his extensive body of graphic work, notable for its intense visual imagination, Hagedorn combined the biting wit of James Ensor (Belgian 1860-1949), the strong design of Felix Vallotton (French 1865-1925), and the fierce humanity of Kathe Kollwitz (German 1867-1945) in some of the most bold, original, and emotionally charged American prints of the 20th Century." - Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition includes 75 works of art and coincides with publication of the first monograph devoted to the artist’s work with essays by leading curators, critics, and art historians.

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herbert bayer
bauhaus & beyond:
a life of art & design
Sculpture, maquettes, drawings, photo-montages, prints posters and tapestrys, by the Bauhaus-trained artist whose European avant-garde art influenced post-war American art and design. 75 works in total

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WPA GRAPHIC WORKS:
FROM THE AMITY ART FOUNDATION COLLECTION
40 lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts by artists who worked with the printmaking programs of the Federal Arts Project of the WPA.

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BOB ADELMAN:
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN;
& NEW YORK ARTISTS
2 exhibitions by internationally recognized photojournalist and author, Bob Adelman, who has covered social and political issues for LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, London's Sunday Times Magazine, Newsweek, and others for more than 50 years. Adelman is a social activist known for his historic coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, presented in the exhibition, Mine Eyes Have Seen, based on the book of the same name. His exhibition, NY ARTISTS, includes intimate views of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and others, and is soon to be published as a book.

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WATSON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHERS:
L.A. STORIES
50 framed photographs, four generations of press photography through the lens of one family spanning the 20th Century. In less than a century, Los Angeles grew from a coastal enclave to one of the world’s most influential cities. The Watson Family of photographers recorded it all – big disasters, small everyday triumphs, world leaders, petty con men, sports legends and infamous trials.  Across four generations, a Watson photographer (or two) has been present at most of the significant events in Southern California , and on occasion through-out the world. Spanning the entire 20th Century, the exhibition presents more than a historical chronology. It also illustrates how advances in photo-technology changed the texture of news photography.  The Watson family’s tradition of technical innovations (dating to the early 1910’s in both the motion picture and still photography) are highlighted throughout the exhibition.

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FORMULATION: ARTICULATION
SERIGRAPHS BY JOSEF ALBERS
66 works in 39 frames, plus analytical statements culled from Albers' extensive writings and text panels. Josef Albers was one of the 20th Century's most influential and articulate artist/ theorists. Formulation: Articulation is an overview of Albers' life-time oeuvre. Published in 1972 by Harry N. Abrams, New York, the works were chosen by Albers himself and produced in silk-screen under his supervision by Ives-Sillman. Two text panels are also included: an introduction to and a chronology of Albers by noted author, art historian and independent curator, Gerald Nordland. 

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A NATION’S CONSCIENCE:
PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM GROPPER
30 paintings,10 cartoons and text panels. Gropper’s best-known subject matter is the satiric caricature of America's wealthy and powerful, of politicians, and moguls of business and industry. His first work as a political cartoonist was at the New York Tribune. His prints and paintings were featured IN one-man shows throughout the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased two of his paintings. He was also commissioned to paint murals for the Interior Building in Wash., D.C., the State of Pennsylvania and a post office in Detroit.

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