The Print Center Edition: Paul Cary Goldberg

Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984), the great master of landscape photography, exhibited at The Print Center in 1972. Planned to coincide with the artist’s seventieth birthday, Adams’ exhibition included 120 photographs and was the largest retrospective of his work to date. While photography had been included in shows at The Print Center as early as…

In 1944, Berthe von Moschzisker, daughter of one of The Print Center’s founding members, was appointed the second Director of The Print Center, a position she held for the next 25 years. Her tenure was notable for many reasons, including her embrace of modernism and her introduction of printed works by important European artists to an American…

The Print Center participated in many activities in support of the war effort and our troops. This included a drive to collect copper etching and engraving plates to be melted down. An article from that time noted that the “donations represent a real patriotic gesture on the part of many artists, who are turning in…

In 1975, as part of The Print Center’s 60th Anniversary, the Philadelphia artist Phil Simkin (1944 -2013) created a performative spectacle that generated so much attention and controversy that people are still talking about it. For Move It or Lose It, Simkin created a 60-foot moving clothesline on Latimer Street in front of The Print…