The Pratt Graphic Art Center also called the Pratt Graphics Center was a print workshop and gallery in New York. The Center grew out of Margaret Lowengrund's Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre.[1] In 1956 Fritz Eichenberg became the Center's director, serving until 1972 .[2] (Sources disagree on whether Lowengrund or Eichenberg should be considered the founder of the Pratt Graphic Art Center, with most claiming Eichenberg was the founder.[1][2][3][4][5]) The Center was associated with the Pratt Institute, providing a space specifically for printmaking. It was used by both students and established artists including Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Claes Oldenburg.[6][7] The Center also published a journal, the Artist's Proof edited by Eichenberg and Andrew Stasik, and had an exhibition space.[7] The Pratt Graphic Art Center closed in 1986.[8][9]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has collected prints published by the Pratt Graphic Art Center.[10] Artists represented in this collection include
- Al Blaustein
- Luis Camnitzer
- Albert Christ-Janer
- Roberto De Lamonica
- Arthur Deshaies
- Lucy Durand-Sikes
- Leonard Edmondson
- Fritz Eichenberg
- Barbro Forslund
- Sid Hammer
- Shigeru Izumi
- Lynda Kalman
- Ruth Kerkovius
- Po-Hyun Kim
- Michael Knigin
- Yasuhide Kobashi
- Lee Krasner
- Jacob Landau
- Seong Moy
- Carl Pickhardt
- Stephen Poleskie
- Michael Ponce de León
- Clayton Pond
- Walter Rogalski
- Clare Romano
- Andrew Stasik
- Valerie Thornton
- Vasilios Toulis
- Ansei Uchima
- Murray Zimiles
References
Further reading
- A Wee Plug for a Worth Cause; All About the Pratt Graphic Art Center And an Art Sale by John Canaday, New York Times, January 5, 1964, Section X, Page 19
- Artist's Proof: A Collectors' Edition of the First Eight Issues of the Distinguished Journal of Prints and Printmaking edited by Fritz Eichenberg, 1971, Pratt/NYGS, ISBN 0821203762