Print Club Cleveland members and longtime Athens residents R. Budd and Janet Kelsey Werner's donation of 50 prints from their personal collections are now the feature of a Kennedy Museum of Art exhibit.
"The exhibit is incredibly rich in terms of imagery," said Edward Pauley, the John B. and Dareth A. Gerlach Director of the Kennedy Museum of Art. "The prints are a mixture of both color and black-and-white and abstract and representational images from a group of select and very well known artists with varying styles."
Beginning Friday, the exhibit showcases the prints, which were issued to the Cleveland Museum of Art annually from 1964 to 2007. Visitors have the opportunity to marvel at a broad range of prints from a variety of impressive artists including Bridget Riley, Will Barnet, April Gornik and Victor Vasarely.
"To have every print issued between 1964 and 2007 is a great way to show the history of the Print Club of Cleveland," said Jeff Carr, the museum's registrar.
The Print Club of Cleveland is dedicated to enriching the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and generating an interest in printmaking among the general public. Annually, the club commissions and publishes a presentation print by an influential artist.
Adding to the Kennedy Museum's already notable print collection, the donation helps to fill in gaps of content and introduce many new artists to the collection, Carr said.
The exhibit will be on display through April 5.
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