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A Series of Irrational Consequences: Atelier 17 at 100

Scaife A and B Sept. 11, 2027–Mar. 19, 2028

From 1927 until its closing in 1988, the Atelier 17 print workshop, founded by Stanley Wiliam Hayter, introduced new ideas, fresh imagery, and radical experimentation to age-old intaglio printmaking techniques of engraving, etching, and drypoint. Initially, during its first period in Paris, from 1927 to 1939, the workshop attracted Surrealists such as Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy, among others. Then, relocating to New York from 1940 to 1950, Atelier 17 worked with Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, and other artists associated with gestural abstraction, affecting their painting practice. On its return to Paris in the 1950s, it became a locus for a new generation of avant-garde artists from Asia and beyond, all of whom shared Hayter’s reverence for the graphic arts and eagerness to be in the printmaking vanguard.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Atelier 17, the present selection of works on paper includes prints by Hayter and artists who were profoundly influenced by this celebrated and consequential center for creative printmaking.

A Series of Irrational Consequences: Atelier 17 at 100 is organized by Akemi May, associate curator of works on paper.

Stanley William Hayter. Angels Wrestling, 1950, Carnegie Museum of Art, Leisser Art Fund, © artist or artist’s estate / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Works on Paper and Photography at Carnegie Museum of Art

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Since its founding in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art has amassed over seventeen thousand works on paper and photographs, with particular strengths in Japanese woodblock prints, American Modernism, and representations of Pittsburgh. Reinaugurating a space first dedicated in 1974, Scaife Galleries A and B showcase a wide-ranging part of the collection that runs the gamut from rare 12th-century Buddhist woodcuts to engravings by Albrecht Dürer to contemporary digital photographs.

Support

Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition program is supported by the Carnegie Museum of Art Exhibition Fund, The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Collective.

Carnegie Museum of Art is supported by The Heinz Endowments and Allegheny Regional Asset District. Carnegie Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.