May 27, 1938
The Print Department of the Brooklyn Museum will exhibit Color Prints in Various Techniques by Four Young W.P.A. Artists for the period May 27 through September 5, 1938.
On the afternoon of Friday, May 27, Mr. Augustus Peck will give a demonstration of the making of a color monotype print in the Print Gallery.
Mr. Russell T. Limbach, born in Masillon, Ohio, on November 9, 1904, is a member of the Cleveland Print Maker,and the American Artists Congress. He has been awarded the following prizes: First prize in lithography and illustration, 1926; second prize for water color, third prize for illustration, 1928; second prize 1929, honorable mention, 1930, second prize, 1930, in lithography, Cleveland Museum of Art; silver medal, California Print Maker, 1928; honorable mention, Second International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving, Chicago Art Institute, 1931; and third prize, Lithography, Cleveland Museum, 1934. Among his works now on exhibition are “Spring Night” at the Los Angeles Museum of Art; “The Bathers,” “Fraternity House” and “The Iron Fence” at the Cleveland Museum of Art; and "Reviewing Stand" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Mr. Augustus Peck, born in 1906, has exhibited and won awards at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is now working on the Federal Arts Project in New York City.
Mr. Louis Schanker, born July 20, 1903, exhibited in 1936 at the Gallerie Bonaparte in Paris, in 1928 at the Madrid National Gallery, in the New York City Gallery of Contemporary Arts, New School of Social Research in 1938 (these last two were one man shows), also with the W.P.A. Federal Arts Project in New York City.
Mr. Hyman J. Warsager, born in New York June 23, 1909, studied at the Hartford Art School, Metropolitan Art School, Pratt Institute, Grand Central School of Art and American Artists School. He is a member of the Artists Union and Associate Editor of the cultural organ of that organization - ART WORK - and a contributor to NEW MASSES magazine. He is at present affiliated with the graphic arts division of the Federal Art Project of New York.
The following prints are included in the exhibition:
Russel T. Limbach’s The Clown, The Crow Tree, The Haunted House, Head, Landscape with Red Barn, Marine Life, The Matron, The Torch Singer, Winter Landscape, Winter Scene, and Winter Storm;
Augustus Peck’s Blonde Girl, Boy In Blue Sweater, Brown Clown, Clown, Clown in Red and Blue, Clown as a Fireman, Dancer, Dancing Man, Head in Blue, Head of a Clown, and Nude Figure;
Louis Schanker’s Abstraction (three woodcuts in four colors and one in five colors) and Clowns; and
Hyman J, Warsager’s Beach Cleaners, The Looters, Morning Walk, Prospect Park, Sea Wall, Staten Island, Ballet Girl and Along the Harlem River.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1937 - 1939. 05-06_1938, 091-2. View Original
