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196913 x 18 15/16 in. (33 x 48.1 cm)
Lynd Ward
United States (Chicago, IL, 1905 - 1985, Reston, VA)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Wood engraving
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.390
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
1969 Presentation Print of the Print Club of Rochester
The son of a Chicago minister, Ward was raised in Massachusetts, in a household void of comics and other potential graphic influences; his development as a visual artist was original and unique. He graduated from Columbia Teachers' College (now part of Columbia University), and continued studying printmaking and book design at the National Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Once back in America, he published the first of many graphic novels, God’s Man, in 1929. His great success enabled him to further develop the graphic novel, then new to American audiences, where stories are told entirely through woodcuts, without the use of text.
[Gallery label text, Print Club of Rochester exhibition, Lockhart Gallery, 2010-2011]
The son of a Chicago minister, Ward was raised in Massachusetts, in a household void of comics and other potential graphic influences; his development as a visual artist was original and unique. He graduated from Columbia Teachers' College (now part of Columbia University), and continued studying printmaking and book design at the National Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Once back in America, he published the first of many graphic novels, God’s Man, in 1929. His great success enabled him to further develop the graphic novel, then new to American audiences, where stories are told entirely through woodcuts, without the use of text.
[Gallery label text, Print Club of Rochester exhibition, Lockhart Gallery, 2010-2011]
Provenance
Presentation Print of the Print Club of Rochester; Charles Rand Penney, Olcott, NY; given to the Gallery in 1975
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Charles Rand Penney Collection Memorial Art Gallery 2/27/1976 - 3/28/1976
- Great Impressions: the Print Club of Rochester Turns 80 Memorial Art Gallery 12/22/2010 - 3/20/2011
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Acquisition: The Charles Rand Penney Foundation Collection. Article Scope: article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 41, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: February 1976.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. The Presentation Prints from the Collection of the Print Club of Rochester : An Exhibition Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, April 10-May 17, 1981. Rochester, NY: Print Club of Rochester, 1981.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1976.
- Storyteller Without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974.
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