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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]
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]
A group of artists who later formed the National Serigraph Society, including WPA artists Max Arthur Cohn, Anthony Velonis and Hyman Warsager, coined the word "serigraphy" in the 1930s to differentiate the artistic application of screen printing from the industrial use of the process. [3] "Serigraphy" is a compound word formed from Latin ...
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]
Cunningham began creating serigraphs in the 1930s. A recurring subject were cable car scenes. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society, the San Francisco Art Association, and the San Francisco Women Artists. [1] She died in 1948. [2]
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.
[4] [1] Steffen's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. [5] He was also included in the Whitney Museum of American Arts 1940 and 1942 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting. [6] Steffen died on July 10, 1980, in Flushing, New York. [2]