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Chiaroscuro in Printmaking, January 24-March 2, 1952

 Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of prints surveying the development of chiaroscuro as a printmaking technique from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an exhibition description, object list, research notes, didactic information, and registration receipts. Installation photograph prints and negatives are in the photograph collection.

Dates

  • Creation: January 24-March 2, 1952

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The price list must be redacted before viewing.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of prints surveying the development of chiaroscuro as a printmaking technique from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.

Arrangement

The materials are separated by content and type and organized chronologically.

Related Exhibitions

de Young: Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Lent by Lessing J. Rosenwald (1939)
de Young: Engravings by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) and his Predecessors, from the Collection of Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia (1940)
Legion of Honor: Legion of Honor: Leonardo da Vinci: The First Modern (1943)
Legion of Honor: Views of European Cities: Prints from the Collection of Moore S. Achenbach (1947)
Legion of Honor: Rembrandt: Master Printmaker (1951)
Legion of Honor: From Durer to Dali: Five Centuries of Religious Prints (1955)
Legion of Honor: Rembrandt and His Influence: An Exhibition Observing the 350th Anniversary of the Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-1669 (1956)
Legion of Honor: The Age of Rembrandt (1966)
Legion of Honor: The Life of Christ in Etchings by Rembrandt (1967)
Legion of Honor: Etchings of the Bible by Rembrandt van Rijn (1968)
Legion of Honor: Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1969)
Legion of Honor: Albrecht Durer: Graphic Master (1971)
de Young: Rembrandt: Selected Prints and Drawings (1982)
Legion of Honor: Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, (2007)
Legion of Honor: Rembrandt and his Contemporaries [cancelled] (2020)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints and negatives are housed in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Exhibition Photograph collection in box 1.

Repository Details

Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Archives Repository

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