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WPA’s Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop
Raymond Steth, Wrapping Tobacco, lithograph, c. 1940; Courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell Gallery During the New Deal era, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) engaged over 10,000...
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In its early years, The Print Center exhibited artworks in a wide variety of media. The earliest photography exhibit was offered in 1933, entitled Colored Photographic Reproduction. In 1958, the...
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A History of The Philadelphia Print Club
In 1929 we published A History of The Philadelphia Print Club. The book is authored by Dorothy Grafly, who had a long career as an art journalist, including as a columnist for The Philadephia Inquirer....
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum of Art, Exhibition Exchange
The Print Center has organized dozens of traveling exhibitions that have visited organizations throughout both the region and the world. In our early history, we had a particularly close relationship...
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Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford: Our First Director
In 1925, Mrs. Crawford was appointed the first Director. Earlier, the organization had been led by the efforts of Mrs. Laurence Eyre, the first President, Executive Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Forbes...
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Annual International Competition
Martin Lewis, Glow of the City, 1929, Drypoint, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Awarded The Charles M. Lea Prize, Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Etchers, May 2 – 31,1930 The Print Center’s Annual...
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A Permanent Home
Since 1918, The Print Center has been located at 1614 Latimer Street, in an old carriage house in Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. The organization purchased the building in...
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Leopold Stokowski Letter
Letter from Leopold Stokowski to Judge Jasper Brinton, 1916 Leopold Anthony Stokowski (1882 – 1977), the renowned conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was an early patron of The Print Center. In...
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The Print Center’s Original Location: 219 South 17th Street, Philadelphia
Brochure announcing The Print Shop, 1915 The Print Center has made its home at 1614 Latimer Street since 1917, but our first location was around the corner, in a small office at 219 South 17th Street....
View ArticleThe Print Center was Founded
Originally founded as “The Print Club” by a group of Philadelphia collectors, The Print Center was established as an “association for the dissemination, study, production and collection of works by...
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