Prints by Women Artists
\nCurated by William J. Dane
\nSecond Floor Gallery
\nMarch 9 – April 29, 2000
\nThe Special Collections of The Newark Public Library have selected and installed an exhibition of nearly fifty original works of graphic art by women artists in The Library\u2019s 2nd floor gallery from now through April 29th, 2000. This visual celebration is organized to salute the outstanding work of printmaking women artists during the month of March which has been officially designated as National Women\u2019s History Month for the Year 2000.
\nMoonlight Circle Dance by Gene Kloss. Aquatint.
\nThe purpose of the project is to display the extraordinary development and commitment to printmaking demonstrated by women artists over the past century and more. The prints include a wide variety of techniques, both traditional and newly discovered combinations. In addition to the established media such as lithography, etching, engraving, mezzotints, serigraphs and linoleum cuts, women artists of recent times have experimented with mixed media, photo-engraving processes, collagraphs, chine colle, and collage constructions while creating works of art on paper.
\nCountry Landscape by Ruth Chaney. Early silkscreen print.
\nThere is international representation in the exhibit with prints from England by Claire Leighton, from France by Marie Laurencin, Orovida Camille Pissarro, and Louise Bourgeois, and by Kathe Kollwitz from Germany. The largest representation of women artists is from America such as Mary Nimmo Moran from the 19th century; other more contemporary artists are Clare Romano, Louisa Chase, Linda Plotkin and Elizabeth Murray with the first half of the twentieth century represented by Peggy Bacon, Betty Parsons, Mabel Dwight, Isabel Bishop, and Minna Citron.<\/p>\n

The Month of January for a 1996 calendar by Consuelo Gotay. Linoleum cut print.<\/p>\n

The Month of September for a 1996 calendar by Consuelo Gotay. Linoleum cut print.
\nThe show includes a strong representation by well known New Jersey artists such as Judith Brodsky, Lucille Hobbie, Helen Frank, Wanda Gag and Victoria Ebbels Hutson. From Japan are works by Toko Shinoda who was born in Manchuria and now lives and works in Japan, along with two American women, Lilian Miller and Carol Jessen who have studied printmaking for a number of years with Japanese master artists and print specialists. Also shown is a recently acquired calendar with six linoleum cuts by Consuelo Gotay from Puerto Rico.
\nThe subject matter depicted in the prints is highly diverse. It includes abstract and non-objective works both in color and in black and white, plus well known buildings and sites, portraits, landscapes, images of the human condition shared by all people plus animal and floral studies. A stunning poster entitled \u201cAn extraordinary Century for Women \u2013 Now, Imagine the Future\u201d was acquired from the center for The National Women\u2019s History Project in Windsor, California. This striking poster by Margaret Lofton Whiting is included in the Library\u2019s collection as it lists a backdrop of the names of many movers and shakers in the women\u2019s movement over the past one hundred years.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong Junk by Lilian May Miller. Wood engraving in the Japanese manner, 1928.
\nThe many prints were carefully selected from the Library\u2019s Fine Print Collection. Curator William J. Dane commented that \u201cThe planning for this exhibition was a great pleasure with the ultimate goal of celebrating such a positive development which benefits so many people both in the art world and in everyday life.\u201d He also noted that there were many graphic works by other artists in The Library\u2019s collection of over 20,000 works on paper to merit another show on the same topic of works by women printmakers.
\nTo The Milking by Clare Leighton. Wood engraving.
\nThe exhibition runs through April 2000 and is open to all during Library hours without any entrance fees. For additional information or details, please call 973-733-7745 at The Newark Public Library in the city\u2019s downtown cultureplex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prints by Women Artists Curated by William J. Dane Second Floor Gallery March 9 – April 29, 2000 The Special Collections of The Newark Public Library have selected and installed an exhibition of nearly fifty original works of graphic art by women artists in The Library\u2019s 2nd floor gallery from now through April 29th, 2000…. <\/p>\n