Collection of prints by eighteen British artists of the 1960s and 1970s
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA009501.
Abstract
The collection consists of work by eighteen artists who worked in the printmaking medium in Great Britain in the 1960s and 70s. Includes work by David Annesley, Patrick Caulfield, Pierre Celice, Bernard Cohen, Elisabeth Frink, Patrick Heron, Gordon House, John Hoyland, Patrick Hughes, Liliane Lijn, Kim Lim, Kenneth Martin, Nicholas Monro, Tom Phillips, Patrick Procktor, William Scott, Colin Self, and William Turnbull.
Dates
- 1966 - 1979
Creator
- Annesley, David (Printmaker, Person)
- Caulfield, Patrick, 1936-2005 (Printmaker, Person)
- Cohen, Bernard (Printmaker, Person)
- Célice, Pierre, 1932- (Printmaker, Person)
- Frink, Elisabeth, 1930-1993 (Printmaker, Person)
- Heron, Patrick, 1920-1999 (Printmaker, Person)
- House, Gordon (Printmaker, Person)
- Hoyland, John (Printmaker, Person)
- Hughes, Patrick, 1939- (Printmaker, Person)
- Lijn, Liliane, 1939- (Printmaker, Person)
- Lim, Kim, (Editor) (Printmaker, Person)
- Martin, Kenneth, 1905-1984 (Printmaker, Person)
- Monro, Nicholas (Printmaker, Person)
- Parsons the New School for Design. Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Design Archives (Owner, Organization)
- Phillips, Tom, 1937- (Printmaker, Person)
- Procktor, Patrick (Printmaker, Person)
- Scott, William, 1913-1989 (Printmaker, Person)
- Self, Colin (Printmaker, Person)
- Turnbull, William, 1922-2012 (Printmaker, Person)
Extent
1.5 Cubic Feet (68 prints)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of work by eighteen artists who worked in the printmaking medium in Great Britain during the 1960s and '70s. All works are prints on paper and most are completely or largely abstract. The majority are screen prints, although there are also lithographs and intaglios. Many are characterized by bold blocks of color and exhibit a Pop influence. It is not known whether the works in this collection were all printed in the same studio, nor are the circumstances known under which they were donated to the Kellen Design Archives. However, many of the artists in this collection are of the same generation, knew one another, and many are frequently exhibited together. All were members of a thriving art scene in Great Britain during the 1960s and '70s, at a time when screen printing was gaining increasing acceptance as a technique for creating works of fine art, after having long been used primarily for producing commercial graphics. Includes work by David Annesley, Patrick Caulfield, Pierre Celice, Bernard Cohen, Elisabeth Frink, Patrick Heron, Gordon House, John Hoyland, Patrick Hughes, Liliane Lijn, Kim Lim, Kenneth Martin, Nicholas Monro, Tom Phillips, Patrick Procktor, William Scott, Colin Self, and William Turnbull.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged alaphabetically by artist.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession date is unclear. A cohesive set of 56 prints was identified by archivists in the Kellen Design Archives in April 2009. This set was separated from a larger group of prints and other artwork that had been collected under the title, "Original artwork by various artists." These prints may have been part of an exhibition in New York in the late 1970s or early 1980s, but their connection to Parsons School of Design has not been identified, nor has the provenance of the collection.
- Etchings (prints) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Fine arts. (Subject) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Intaglio prints (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Lithographs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Printmakers (Occupation) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Prints -- Technique (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Prints, British (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Screen prints (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Collection of prints by eighteen British artists of the 1960s and 1970s
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- February 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin