Curator Position Established
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Christine Filippone led The Print Center from 1998 until 2003 during a new cultural era; one in which fundraising and marketing became essential for the well being of a nonprofit. Until Filippone’s arrival, The Print Center was run by a full-time staff of two. Times were changing. Filippone increased the staff to four full-time employees including…
Retrospective exhibition of prints by Philadelphia artist Jerome Kaplan with accompanying catalog. [note]George Bunker and Ruth Fine, Jerome Kaplan Prints (Philadelphia: The Print Club, 1973)[/note] Jerome Kaplan Prints, 1973 Texts by George Bunker and Ruth Fine Softcover, 10″ x 7″, 32 pages See Timeline entry for 1994 Jerome Kaplan Graphic Works for more information and images. …
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 with the Brooklyn Museum of Art. At least a dozen exhibitions traveled from The Print Center to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the 1920s…
The Print Center Residency Series, co-directed by Anne Schuster Hunter and Hester Stinnett, operated between 1988 and 1991. Artists Robert Cumming, Lois Lane, Winifred Lutz and Art Spiegelman were invited to work with lithographic master printer Timothy Sheesley and Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut printer Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi, with whom they produced print editions. The Print Club Residency Program…
George Bunker, Seasonal, 1967, Color lithograph, 30 x 22 inches, Edition of 40
Sam Maitin (1928 – 2004) is one of the artists most closely associated with The Print Center. He was a celebrated printmaker whose work was included in at least 45 shows during his lifetime. Maitin took part in Stanley William Hayter’s monthly workshops at The Print Center in the 1940s and taught for Prints in…