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GRAPHIC REVOLUTION AMERICAN PRINTS 1960 TO NOW
SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM The story of “modern American print” is about the permutations of a dizzying array of artistic and cultural movements: advertising, POP, abstraction, civil rights, appropriation, war and more — a lot more. Take all of that and add to it the science of print, and you start to grasp
the task of putting together a narrative exhibit. Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now, at the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) did exactly that. It told the story of print while captivating art lovers like me with a definition-expanding group of artworks
representing the "graphic boom" and the evolution of the discipline. The roster of artists chosen for this exhibition is diverse, revealing ways that printmaking continues to produce new methods and materials, and demonstrating how the print artform responds to a dynamic culture. When curators Elizabeth Wyckoff and Gretchen L. Wagner organized Graphic Revolution, they included well-known artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella and Elizabeth Murray, but they also included several lesser-known artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Lorna Simpson, Sol LeWitt, Edgar Heap of Birds and Ellen Gallagher. With more than 100 prints drawn from the museum's holdings and local private collections, Graphic Revolution highlights decades of art interest in our region.
Rosa Lee Lovell, Figure Group Series (image courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum)
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup II, (image courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Andy Warhol Foundtion for the Visual Arts) 03 ALLTHEARTSTL.COM SPRING 2019
IN REVIEW
Robert Rauchenberg, Passport from the portfolio Ten from Leo Castelli, (image courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum)
