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The Print Center Embraced Photography
ByadminThe 1960s and 1970s was a time of transition in American art. Artists clamored for change, crossing boundaries previously drawn between art and popular culture. Photography played an active role in this period as artists who were not photographers, used the medium at the service of their ideas, while others addressed the nature of photographic…
The Print Center Edition: John Joyce
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Jane Landis, Acting Director
ByadminJane Landis began working at The Print Center in May of 1984 as Assistant to the Director. In January of 1986, she became Acting Director when Ofelia Garcia departed for the Atlanta College of Art. She remained Acting Director until August of 1987, when Anne Schuster Hunter was appointed.
The Print Center Edition: Michael Miller
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exhibition Exchange
ByadminThe Print Center has organized dozens of traveling exhibitions that have visited organizations throughout both the region and the world. In our early history, we had a particularly close relationship with the Brooklyn Museum of Art. At least a dozen exhibitions traveled from The Print Center to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the 1920s…
A Permanent Home
ByadminSince 1918, The Print Center has been located at 1614 Latimer Street, in an old carriage house in Philadelphia’s historic Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. The organization purchased the building in 1927 and has made many renovations over the years, including enclosing a section of the garden in the 1960’s. Illustrations from A History of the Philadelphia…
