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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]
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]
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]
Cohn had worked in the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) easel division and was a co-founder of the National Serigraph Society. [ 67 ] 1962 – Screen printing was given new energy as Pop art visual imagery replicated popular commercialism, notably in Andy Warhol 's Campbell's soup can images, with large scale, colorful, bold prints that ...
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The show was organized as a vehicle for bringing affordable fine art prints to the general public. [4] She was included in the 1947 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. [5] She also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. [1]
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.