October 18, 1942
Today (Friday, December 18), the Brooklyn Museum opens an exhibition of selected prints by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. This exhibition, which will be current through Monday, February 22, 1943, is hung in the Print Gallery, second floor, and consists of forty prints. This is the second of the season’s special exhibitions to be presented by the Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings.
The prints consist of lithographs, etchings and wood cuts. Several of these work are in the Museum collection; the balance in the exhibition are loans.
Edvard Munch has lived and worked mainly in his native Norway and has cared little for worldly recognition. He is known for his fine portraits and for works dealing with subjects involving his own particular symbolic presentations. Many of his paintings and prints are in the collection of the Oslo Museum.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1942 - 1946. 10-12/1942, 208. View Original
