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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]
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]
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] Hopf's work is in the National Gallery of Art, [10] the National Gallery of Victoria, [1] the Tacoma Art Museum [4] and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [11]
She was also the first artist to actually create a serigraph, The Concert, while on the Silkscreen Unit. [15] 1927 – The Society of American Printmakers was organized and began to offer shows that included prints in different media. In the late 1930s, it organized annual exhibitions.
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]
She exhibited at the 1944, 1947, and 1951 Dallas Museum of Art exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. [6] [7] [8] Chaney was in the first group of artists who received technical advice, in late 1938, on silk screen printing from Anthony Velonis, the leader of the Federal Art Project's newly established Silk Screen Unit.
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.