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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]
Velonis was born into a relatively poor background of a Greek immigrant family and grew up in the tenements of New York City. Early on, he took creative inspiration from figures in his life such as his grandfather, an immigrant from the mountains in Greece , who was "an ecclesiastical painter, on Byzantine style ."
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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]
She was a founding member of the National Serigraph Society. [1] She was included in the 1947 and 1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. [3] [4] Freedman exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum, the Hudson River Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [2]
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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]