SLAM's 'Graphic Revolution' Printmaking Exhibit Opens Nov. 11

ST. LOUIS, MO — The Saint Louis Art Museum will celebrate an explosion in American printmaking in a new exhibition this fall. "Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now" opens November 11 and will run through Februrary 3, 2019.

Featuring Louise Bourgeois, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others, "the exhibition looks beyond the artists to explore the creative synergies that emerged between the printers, publishers, dealers and collectors who were critical to the development of American art in the late 20th and early 21st centuries," the museum said in a news release.

The exhibition also includes works by Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Ed Ruscha and others on loan from private St. Louis collections, reflecting the place of the city in the "historical fabric of the period."

"'Graphic Revolution' vividly highlights the Saint Louis Art Museum’s significant holdings of postwar American prints,” said Brent R. Benjamin, museum's director. “The richness and variety of this collection is attributable not only to the prescience of past museum curators and directors, but to the many donors who have enthusiastically and generously supported purchases by the museum and contributed works of art from their own collections.”

Tickets will be available from the museum and MetroTix. They go on sale October 2. Visit slam.org for more information.

Photo: The Saint Louis Art Museum from across the Grand Basin in Forest Park (J. Ryne Danielson/Patch)