Pratt Graphic Art Center

The Pratt Graphic Art Center also called the Pratt Graphics Center was a print workshop and gallery in New York. The Center grew out of Margaret Lowengrund's Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre.[1] In 1956 Fritz Eichenberg became the Center's director, serving until 1972 .[2] (Sources disagree on whether Lowengrund or Eichenberg should be considered the founder of the Pratt Graphic Art Center, with most claiming Eichenberg was the founder.[1][2][3][4][5]) The Center was associated with the Pratt Institute, providing a space specifically for printmaking. It was used by both students and established artists including Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Claes Oldenburg.[6][7] Painter and printmaker Martin Barooshian served as Supervisor for the Center's Graphics Workshop for Professionals from 1960-1970, hired by Eichenberg at the behest of Stanley Hayter.[8] The Workshop was a primary vehicle for the participation of established artists in the Center. The Center also published a journal, the Artist's Proof edited by Eichenberg and Andrew Stasik, and had an exhibition space.[7] The Pratt Graphic Art Center closed in 1986.[9][10]

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has collected prints published by the Pratt Graphic Art Center.[11] Artists represented in this collection include

  1. ^ a b "Contemporaries gallery records, 1951-1957". New York Public Library Archives. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "City Lights (1934) Fritz Eichenberg". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Fritz Eichenberg". Terra Foundation for American Art. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  4. ^ "WPA Art Collection". Illinois State Museum. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  5. ^ Fraser, C. Gerald (4 December 1990). "Fritz Eichenberg, A Book Illustrator And Educator, 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Barnett Newman. Untitled. 1961 MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  7. ^ a b Wye, Deborah; Figura, Starr (2004). Artists & Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-87070-125-2.
  8. ^ Russo, Michael J.; Barooshian, Martin; Faxon, Susan C. (2019). Martin Barooshian: a catalogue raisonné of the prints: 1948-1970 (First ed.). Stoneham, Massachusetts: SPAAH, Society for the Preservation of American Artistic Heritage. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-9991899-9-3. OCLC 1111627422.
  9. ^ "Pratt Institute Launches New Printmaking Program". City Guide. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Mission and History". Manhattan Graphics Center. Retrieved 22 February 2020.