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- Collection: Mining the Store: American Prints from the Permanent Collection
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Summer Field
Richard Ziemann is fortunate to have belonged to the first generation of Yale University M. F. A. students who honed their printmaking craft while working with Gabor Peterdi, who was just beginning his association with Yale when Ziemann started his…
Sail Boat
John Marin came to art relatively late in life. As a young adult, beginning in 1892, he practiced architecture, and rather successfully, though he never received formal training in the field. Only in 1899, when he was nearly 30 years of age, did he…
Winter Forest
Art Hansen found success early. He had his first solo exhibition, at the Seattle Art Museum, in 1952, shortly after concluding his undergraduate studies at the University of Washington. The same year he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1953 he…
Stover's Mill
A native of North Manchester, Indiana, Daniel Garber first studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati before moving to Philadelphia in 1899 to train for six years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1906 he travelled to Europe, where…
Flower Girl
One week after graduating in 1926 with a degree in fine arts from Columbia University, Lynn Ward married May McNeer, a journalism student at Columbia (and the later the author of many of the books her husband would go on to illustrate). On the same…
Infinity Field, Delphi I
When he received his first one-man exhibition, in New York City at the Wakefield Gallery in 1943, Theodoros Stamos was just 20 years of age, but already his internalized biomorphic tendencies placed him well within the orbit of nascent Abstract…
The Next Shift
In 1935, after a twelve-year association with Hervey White’s Maverick art colony in Woodstock, New York, Harry Gottlieb moved to New York City to work for the Graphic Arts Division of the WPA’s Federal Art Project. Three years later he was…