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Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Examines the Life and Work of Robert Blackburn and Printmaking in the United States

Tour Launches at Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City, Missouri, March 28

A new exhibition exploring the life and work of artist Robert Blackburn, whose innovation and masterful expertise with the medium helped define the overall aesthetic of the American graphics “boom,” will debut at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, March 28. “Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking,”…

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In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries will be closed

In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 15. We will re-open for public hours on Tuesday, January 16, at 1:00. 

This linoleum print by Elizabeth Catlett, titled “My Right Is a Future of Equality with Other Americans,” comes from The Negro Woman portfolio of 1946-1947. The image of a woman looking forward to a brighter future calls to mind Dr. King’s dream that: 

“One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’.”

The image is reproduced from the 2005 exhibition catalog Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People, which is available in our reference collection.


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