Sept. 25 | Peter Parshall, "Why Study Prints Now?"
APS is pleased to announce its inaugural lecture
“Why Study Prints Now?”
Peter Parshall, Former Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Friday, September 25 at 4 PM
Martin Segal Theater at The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
In his lecture, Peter Parshall, former Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., will address the history and historiography of print studies. He is the former Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and the Humanities at Reed College and, with David Landau, co-author of The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550 (Yale University Press, 1994). Parshall has published extensively and organized several groundbreaking exhibitions covering a wide range of topics about printmaking. He is currently conducting research on the curator William Ivins for an upcoming 2016 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William Ivins and Hyatt Mayor.
For further details, and to RSVP (recommended but not required), please visit http://www.printscholars.org/rsvp[printscholars.org or contact Katherine Alcauskas
APS is thankful for the generous support of the International Fine Print Dealers Association and the Department of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.