Lux Museum — Prints
July 9 - November 2
Gladys M. LUX Print Exhibition
A Pressing Need to Create: An Exhibition of Women’s Prints
Doris Emrick
For hundreds of years women’s artistic abilities were channeled into the production of personal and domestic items. Few women attempted to become professional artists because careers in art were considered a male province. But women were not without the urge to create artistically and professionally for the public; and this pressing need finally began to emerge. In the 18th century a few women attempted to become artists but it was not until the 19th century that a number of women sought professional careers as artists. One of the earliest to do so, Berthe Morisot, has two pieces in this exhibition.
Berthe Morisot carefully followed the rules of society in the mid 1800s but because her family encouraged her to create art and also had the wealth to support her career, she was able to become a lifelong artist. Operating a messy printing press was considered an unladylike medium, but she and later artists such as Marie Laurencin, Marguerite Zorach and Lili Rethi, also represented in “A Pressing Need to Create”, embraced printing. In the 20th century, women printmakers such as Peggy Bacon, Marion Greenwood, Margery Austin Ryerson and Doris Emrick Lee, whose artwork also is in this exhibition, found greatly expanded opportunities for women artists.
Seventeen prints by fifteen artists compose the exhibition of art by women who felt and acted on “A Pressing Need to Create”. The newly framed prints will be on exhibit in the Gladys M. Lux Historical Print Gallery on the second floor of the Lux Center for the Arts through November 2, 2010.
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The Gladys Lux Print Collection
Ms. Lux purchased a great number of prints primarily from two organizations. The majority were bought from an art gallery in New York City called the Associated American Artists. Started in 1934, AAA was founded on the principle that fine, orginal works of art need not be available only to a select few. Collecting in this country had been limited mostly to paintings, while original prints were sought only by museums and scholars. For this reason, artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry agreed to offer their prints to collectors throughout the country for as little as 5 dollars each. The prints were issued in editions of 250, individually signed, and not numbered.
The second organization was the American Collegiate Society of Print Collectors. It was formed in 1930 and sold prints exclusively to college art departments. The society was forced to suspend activities during the Depression years due to the financial conditions of many universities.
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