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The Print Center Edition: 65th Anniversary marked with The Philadelphia Portfolio
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The First Print Center Publication: Leonard Baskin illustrates Blake’s Auguries of Innocence
ByadminAuguries of Innocence, 1959 Text by William Blake, Illustrated by Leonard Baskin Hardcover, 9 1/2″ x 6″, 20 pages [hr] In 1959, we commissioned Leonard Baskin to illustrate a version of William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence, published in an edition of 250. It was printed by Esther Baskin, Leonard Baskin and Richard Warren at the Gehenna…
Stanley William Hayter and the Artist’s Workshop
ByadminIn 1945 The Print Center sent out a letter announcing a new initiative: The Artist’s Workshop. “This is not to be class or school,” the letter reads, “but to be for artists who are interested in technical research in graphic materials.” Over the next seven years, the British artist Stanley William Hayter (1901 – 1988)…
The Print Center Edition: Ieva Iltnere
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The Print Center Edition: Emma Wilcox
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Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford: Our First Director
ByadminIn 1925, Mrs. Crawford was appointed the first Director. Earlier, the organization had been led by the efforts of Mrs. Laurence Eyre, the first President, Executive Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Forbes Dallam, and her assistant, Miss Flora Lash.
