Prints by Women: Selected European and American Works from the Georgia Museum of Art

Prints by Women:

Selected European and American Works from the Georgia Museum of Art

This exhibition, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, includes 47 prints—woodcuts, lithographs, drypoints, etchings, screenprints and more—ranging from the 19th through the 21st centuries, each by a different European or American woman artist. Prints by Women provides a visual chronicle of art by women using GMOA’s permanent collection.

Three of the most important European women artists, Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899), Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895) and Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945), have works featured in the exhibition. Bonheur’s hand-tinted lithograph “The Sheep Fold” was among the most widely distributed and popular images of the 19th century in Visit www.georgiamuseum.org both Europe and the United States. Morisot’s untitled drypoint to download a complete of ducks exhibits the influence of checklist of the exhibition. both French Impressionism and Japanese printmaking on the artist. Kollwitz was a graphic artist of first importance, and her etching “Woman By a Church Wall” is typical of her early post-Impressionist images.

Government support of the arts during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration under the auspices of the New Deal’s “alphabet agencies” led to women artists (including Lucienne Bloch, Grace Clements, Minetta Good, Clare Leighton and Jenne Magafan) finding expanded opportunities for employment and work in the fine arts.

Minna Citron, an artist associated with Abstract Expressionism in New York in the 1950s, experimented in unorthodox techniques in etching, especially in Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 workshop, with an interest in accidental effects and random elements that mirror her abstract paintings. The display also focuses on a handful of living contemporary artists, including Claire Clements, Ynez Johnston, Laquita Thomson and Emily Trueblood.

Front, top: Jenne Magafan (American, 1916–1952), Nebraska Landscape, 1940. GMOA 2002.1 Front, bottom: Ella Fillmore Lillie (American, 1887–1973), Pink Chapel, St. Simons Island, 1949. GMOA 2000.34 Back: Ilonka Karasz (American, b. Hungary, 1896–1981), Group of Figures (detail), 1923. GMOA 2006.218

Support for the museum’s exhibitions and programs is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals, foundations and corporations provide additional support through their gifts to the University of Georgia Foundation.