Prints

The Marcus Orr Print Room houses the museum’s graphic works, its largest single collection. More than half of the prints in this collection are 20th-century American, ranging from an extensive selection of Associated American Artists prints to Pop Art of the 1960s and contemporary works by artists, such as Glenn Ligon and Willie Cole. European Old Masters are represented by the etchings and engravings of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn; 18th and 19th-century prints include works by Thomas Bewick, Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, and Honoré Daumier. A small selection of Japanese prints represents the Ukiyo-e school with woodcuts by masters such as Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

 

 
Willie Cole, American, b. 1955
Man Spirit Mask, 1999
Triptych: photo etching; silkscreen; photo etching with woodcut on paper
Sheet size: each: 39.125 x 26.5 in
Edition of 40
Publisher: Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
 
William Hogarth, British, 1697 -1764
Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter after The Foundling, 1752 Etching and engraving, iv/IV
Image: 16 3/4" x 20 3/4"
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery Purchase 65.74
 
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
Annunciation from the Small Passion (1511), ca. 1510
Woodcut
Image: 5" x 3 13/16"
Gift of the Madonna Circle 60.20.3
 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669
The Tribute Money, ca. 1635
Etching, i/II
Image: 2 7/8" x 4"
Gift of Dr. Louis Levy 47.690
 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903
Drouet, 1859
Etching and drypoint
Image: 9" x 6"
Gift of Dr. Lois Levy Schwartz 92.1.8
 
Mary Cassatt, American, 1844-1926
Margot and Her Mother Seated on a Sofa, 1901
Drypoint
Image: 16" x 12 7/8"
Memphis Park Commission purchase 48.9
 
Joseph Pennell, American, 1866-1926
The Woolworth, Through the Arch, 1921
Etching, ed. 200
Image: 9 7/8" x 6 7/8"
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery purchase 49.24
 
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866-1944
Small Worlds II (Kleine Welten II) from the portfolio Klein Welten, 1922 Lithograph
14" x 11"
Image: 9 ¾" x 8 ½"
Gift of the Carnegie Corporation 40.19.16
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