A model workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and the contemporaries

Abstract

A Model Workshop explores the understudied impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902-57), a visionary figure within the mid-twentieth century printmaking community, and the vibrant New York workshop and gallery she founded, The Contemporaries. Bringing together original essays and archival documents, the book maps the activities, networks, and legacies of Lowengrund and The Contemporaries, placing them in the context of organized labor, feminism, entrepreneurship, international exchange, and modern prints. In doing so, A Model Workshop expands our understanding of 1950s printmaking by showing that Lowengrund and The Contemporaries were a vital nexus in the field.

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments / Judy Hecker and Jenn Bratovich -- Introduction / Christina Wyel and Lauren Rosenblum -- Conceiving a Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund before The Contemporaries / Laruen Rosenblum -- Margaret Lowengrund -- Fusing Printmaking, Commerce, and Education: The Contemporaries and Pratt Graphic Art Center / Christina Weyl -- The Imprint of an Artist, Witness, and Advocate / Ellen J. Benjamin -- Vision and Grit: Margaret Lowengrund and New York's Female Galleriests of the 1950s / Jillian Russo -- Ideal Pictures for Modern Walls: Margaret Lowengrund, The Contemporaries, and the Postwar Middle-Class Interior / Sarah Archer -- The Contemporaries -- Printmaking Exchanges between Japan and the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Noriko Kuwahara -- Redefining Contemporary Print: Luis Camnitzer, Liliana Porter, and the New York Graphic Workshop / Rachel Vogel -- Pratt Graphic Art Center -- Chronology -- Exhibition Histories.