June 6 - November 11, 2009

This exhibition explores nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape, portraiture and marine subjects. Masters of printmaking such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jean-François Millet, Paul Cézanne, and Charles François Daubigny will be represented. Other featured artists include American printmakers Gordon Hope Grant, Marion Greenwood, Joseph Margulies, and Frederick Owen.

Generously donated by Kathryn M. Klingeman in 2006, this selection of more than thirty American and European etchings, engravings and lithographs is a welcome addition to the Museum’s outstanding collection of works on paper.

This superb collection will be on exhibit for the first time in the Museum’s new Works on Paper Gallery.

Curator’s Lecture and Gallery Talk, Friday, September 25, 6 p.m.
Prints and Process: Etching, Engraving and Lithography

Speaker: Scott A. Schweigert, Art Curator, Reading Public Museum. Details soon!

The Reading Public Museum is supported in part by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Images: Left - Frederick L. Owen (American. 1869-1959), Nocturne, 1938, etching; Right - James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), La Vieille aux Loques (The Rag Gatherer), etching

To watch a Comcast Local Edition interview about this exhibition, click here. (YouTube)

To download a PDF of the press release, click here.

To check out Ron Schira's review (7/19/09) in the Reading Eagle, click here.