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The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art. [ 4 ]
The Society's "active program of traveling exhibits, lectures, and portfolios of prints helped to sustain and broaden interest in the serigraph". [27] The Dallas Museum of Art held several exhibits of the work of the National serigraph Society members in 1944, 1947, and 1951 [28] [29] [30]
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The next year, Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, Warsager, and other artists co-founded the National Serigraph Society. [1] [8] [21] It started out with relatively small commercial projects, such as "rather fancy" Christmas cards that were sold to many of the upscale Fifth Avenue shops for a dollar apiece.
[5] [6] Hopf provided one of the six limited-edition prints for the Silk Screen Group's 1943 calendar. [7] Hopf's work was included in the 1940 MoMA exhibition American Color Prints Under $10. [8] He was also included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. [9] Hopf died on July 17, 1999. [1]
In the 1940s Maccoy's work was included in several of the Dallas Museum of Art exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. [5] [6] [7] In 1947 Maccoy moved to Los Angeles, California where he taught at the Otis Art Institute and was a founder of the Western Serigraph Society. [4] He died on March 18, 1981 [1] in Los Angeles. [2]
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
Rajer was born in 1918. [1] He was a member of the Works Progress Administration New York graphic unit where he produced serigraphs (silk screens) and woodcuts. [2] His work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. [3]