Please pass this on to any interested parties. This exhibition is ideal for
a small college- or university-based museum. We are targeting locations in
the Midwest and Southeast in particular.
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October 15, 2004-December 31, 2005
Prints from the Clark Family Collection
Curated by Mark A. Hall, Printmaker and
Head of the Fine Arts Division, Maryville (TN) College
Fine art prints have gone through periods of great creativity,
advancement in technique and popularity since their beginnings in the late
14th and early 15th centuries. Few institutions have had a greater impact
on the production of prints as works of art than the Graphic Chemical and
Ink Company. Founded in Chicago in 1920 by Robert P. Faulkner and currently
owned by Dean and Susan Clark in Villa Park, Illinois, since World War II
Graphic Chemical and Ink Company has been the major supplier of printmaking
supplies and equipment to artists and to art students in the United States.
Today, the company also distributes to Canada and to much of Western Europe.
The first print that came into the collection arrived in the early 1930s,
during the Depression, when an artist offered to send a print in return for
a pound of ink. Immediately after the war the university-based print class
taught a new generation of art students about the print as an art form.
Besides supplying needed materials, the Clark family sponsored countless
exhibition awards beginning in 1948 and subsequently received prints from
these exhibitions, from artist friends, from clients showing their thanks
and from personal purchases.
This exhibition of 35 prints, drawn from the Clark Family/Graphic Chemical
and Ink Co.'s collection of over 1500 prints, focuses on prints from the 2nd
half of the 20th century and includes such masters as Warrington Colescott,
John Noble, David Bumbeck and Bruno Bak. A full range of printmaking
techniques are on view, including several popular reproductive "prints" as
an instructive device. The presentation is a good introduction to
printmaking for beginning students or the general public, and is ideal for a
small university gallery. An online catalogue is available at
http://faculty.maryvillecollege.edu/theprint/
Availability: October 15, 2004 through December 31, 2005.
Number of venues: Four maximum in the Midwest and Southeast United States
Booking period: Six to eight weeks
Rental fee: $500 plus one-way transportation to next exhibition venue
Crating: Fully crated in one plywood, wheeled crate with condition
notebook, labels ready for mounting, display and interpretive signage and
fresh repacking material
Insurance value: $7,645
For more information or to book the exhibition:
Julia Muney Moore, Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St., Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 255-2464 x233 FAX (317) 254-0486
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Julia Muney Moore
Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 255-2464 x233
FAX (317) 254-0486
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website < http://www.indplsartcenter.org <http://www.indplsartcenter.org/> >
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