exhibitions
Sets: Printed Variations
May 26–August 20, 2017 | Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
Series of prints have long been used to tell stories, each print a different scene
in a tale. Sometimes sets of prints convey a group of parallel ideas without a
narrative, like the seven virtues, the four seasons, or the Seven Wonders of
the World. In the twentieth century, the print set became more open ended,
exploring variations on a theme. This exhibition presents these and other sets
in their entirety as their artists originally intended, allowing viewers the full
effect of these multipart works of art.
Warrington Colescott (American, b. 1921), I March with Käthe Kollwitz and the Weavers; Käthe
Predicts Their Movement Will End Badly, from the series My German Trip, 1992, soft-ground
color etching, aquatint, 14 ½ x 20 7 ⁄ 16 in., gift of Janice and Jean-Pierre Golay, 2013.6.1c
German Expressionist Prints: Barbara Mackey Kaerwer’s Legacy
September 1–November 5, 2017
Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
Barbara Mackey Kaerwer, art historian, lecturer, collector, and great friend of the Chazen Museum
of Art, was a loyal and generous alumna of UW–Madison. Works from her vast collection of German
Expressionist prints, and Austrian fine and decorative art of the Vienna Secession and Wiener
Heinrich Johann Vogeler
(German, 1872–1942),
The Blackbird (Die
Amsel), 1899, etching,
5 7 ⁄ 16 x 5 3 ⁄ 8 in., gift
of Barbara Mackey
Kaerwer, 2012.22.98
Werkstätte were shown in four exhibitions between 1972 and 2003. She gave nearly four hundred
pieces of fine and decorative art to the Chazen during her life and she contributed one thousand books,
exhibition catalogues, and other printed materials to the University’s Kohler Art Library.
Prints by Egon Schiele, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, and Käthe Kollwitz are among Mrs. Kaerwer’s gifts to
the Chazen and are featured in this exhibition.