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...knows more about prints than anyone else in the U.S. is the Philadelphia Museum's bearded Carl Zigrosser. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum put on a show of contemporary U.S. prints, selected by Printman Zigrosser. It was the most comprehensive print show Manhattan had seen in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $25 Pictures | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Printman Zigrosser looked over the works of about 1,000 artists. The 261 prints he selected, representing almost every well-known name in U.S. art, covered the period between 1914 and 1941. This cross-section of U.S. printmaking showed that: 1) in variety and quality of work, U.S. printmakers were leading the world; 2) since World War I, U.S. print-makers had turned gradually from Romantic Venetian canals and Gothic cathedrals to forthright, glamorless, often satirical comments on the U.S. scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $25 Pictures | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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