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Major Gifts |
Recipients |
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204 Prints by African-American
artists of the 1930s-40s. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1999 |
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More than 300 prints, portfolios
of prints, illustrated books, and paintings. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
bought with funds contributed during Dave Williams’s time as a trustee,
1993-2001. |
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100 20th Century American and
Mexican Prints |
The British Museum, 1987-2004 |
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54 20th Century Mexican Prints |
The British Museum, 2008 |
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7 20th Century Mexican Prints |
The British Museum, from
contributed funds, 2008 |
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200 20th Century American Prints |
The Fitzwilliam Museum,
contributed by artists, printers and dealers at the behest of Reba and Dave
Williams, 1999. |
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Activities
Sponsored |
Recipients |
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The Print Research Foundation is
sponsoring a catalogue raisonne of the prints published by Brooke Alexander
and a related traveling exhibition. Brooke Alexander has been active since
the 1960s as a publisher of and dealer in prints; he has published or
co-published more than 1,000 prints, most by American artists. See Brooke
Alexander Gallery website (www.baeditions.com).
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Brooke Alexander
Project
The research for this project is under the direction of David Acton at the
Worcester Art Museum (www.worcesterart.org).
David Acton is Curator of Prints, Drawing and Photographs at Worcester, and
the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and catalogue raisonnés,
including The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints and A
Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking, 1890-1960. |
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The Print Research Foundation
provided 19th Century prints from its collection for
illustrations, and assisted with the photography for The
New York Etching Club Minutes.
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Stephen A. Fredericks, author,
The New York Etching Club Minutes (Houston: Rice University Press,
2009.)
To order copies. Go to
http:my.goop.com/store/Rice-University-Press-3111075350609104/The-NewYork-Etching-Club-Minutes-1401799840123/
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Exhibitions
Sponsored (Other
than those drawn on the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams.) |
Recipients |
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Peter Halley: New Concepts in
Printmaking 1 |
Museum of Modern Art, New York
9/18/97-2/8/98 |
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Anselm Kiefer: Works on
Paper,1969-1993 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
9/15/98-3/21/99 |
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Because Reba and Dave Williams have long had a special
interest in prints made by artists employed by the Works Progress Administration
(WPA), the Foundation provided grants to The Newark Museum of Art (www.newarkmuseum.org),
The Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, SC) (www.gibbesmuseum.org)
and the Baltimore Museum of Art (www.artbmo.org)
for the cataloguing of the WPA prints in the collections of those museums.
Copies of these catalogues are available for study at each of the museums.
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Murals
Restored* |
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James Daugherty, School
Activities, 1934 |
Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT |
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Jean Charlot, Art
Contributions to Civilizations of All Nations and Countries, 1936 |
Bayard Rustin High School for the
Humanities, New York, NY
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José Clemente Orozco, Science,
Labor, and Art; Homecoming of the Worker of the New Day; Struggle in the
Occident; and Table of Universal Brotherhood, 1930-31 |
The New School, New York, NY |
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*Reba and Dave Williams have a
special interest in murals because many WPA printmaking artists also painted
murals. Many of these same artists were influenced by the Mexican muralists,
as described in the exhibition catalogue, The Mexican Muralists and
Prints. |
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