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Bernarda Bryson Shahn: A Selection of Prints and Drawings (1928–98) |
 September 16–27 Atrium Moore College of Art & Design 20th Street & The Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 |
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On view in the Moore Atrium from September 16 to 27, is an exhibition of prints and drawings (from 1928 through 1998) by nonagenarian Bernarda Bryson Shahn.
Bryson studied at the University of Ohio and the Cleveland School of Art in the twenties. An accomplished artist and expert lithographer, she was invited to Washington DC in 1934 to set up the lithographic shop for the US Government Resettlement Administration. It was during this period that her social and political concerns found their way into her art. It was also during this period that she married Ben Shahn and started a family. Her oeuvre ranges from lithographs portraying the decline of the American frontier to illustrations for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to portraits of celebrities interviewed in Parade, Fortune, and Scientific American. Judith K. Brodsky, printmaker, professor of art, director of Rutgers Center of Innovative Print and Paper, has chosen the works for this exhibition from a larger retrospective originally organized by Nancy Einreinhofer, director at the Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University. The exhibition at Moore is held in conjunction with the Philadelphia Print Collaborative’s “IMAGE & PRINT: A Contemporary Conversation with History,” a regional print festival (September 20–October 19). Links:
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