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Photo Image in American Prints 1960–1990
3/5/2004 Legion of Honor
13 March–18 July 2004
San Francisco, 3 March 2004--The diverse range of styles and viewpoints of over 20 contemporary artists will be showcased in Photo Image in American Prints 1968–1998. This exhibition of 30 prints and books explores the use of photographic imagery in creative printmaking, from Andy Warhol's screenprints of the 1960s, which utilized imagery borrowed from mass media, to Kiki Smith’s 1996 photogravure, My Blue Lake, in which the artist used a peripheral camera to create her self-portrait. The majority of works in the exhibition are selected from the Crown Point Press Archive and the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection.
American painters, sculptors, and conceptual artists, with a few exceptions such as Richard Hamilton and Jannis Kounellis, are the focus of the exhibition. Among the other artists whose work will be on view are Jasper Johns, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Christopher Brown, Tom Marioni, Gay Outlaw, and Ed Ruscha.
Also included in the exhibition are hand-drawn prints by Robert Bechtle, Vija Clemins, and Chuck Close. Although these images are inspired by photographic images and despite their distinctly photographic look, these works do not involve
the actual use of photographs.
The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection
Many of the prints in this exhibition are from the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, a body of over 650 works given to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1996 by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. The collection spans over 30 years of print production, from 1962 to 1999, with outstanding examples of print processes--woodcut, intaglio, lithography, screenprint, and monotype--from major American fine art presses. Since 1997 the Fine Arts Museums has provided a series of exhibitions from the collection as well as interpretive publications and programs in order to share this important educational and art historical resource with museum audiences. The Fine Arts Museums is also dedicated to pursuing an active collection-sharing program, which makes the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection accessible as a resource to museums and galleries throughout the western United States.
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