To support and promote American artists creating and printing works using the silkscreen process.
Formerly called
Silk Screen Group
The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager.[1][2][3] The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art.[4] Originally called the Silk Screen Group, the name was soon changed to the National Serigraph Society.[5]
The National Serigraph Society had its own gallery, the Serigraph Gallery at 38 West 57th Street in New York City.[6] They published a quarterly newsletter called the "Serigraph Quarterly."[7] The Society had lectures, published prints, and coordinated traveling shows.[8]
In "The Complete Printmaker: Techniques, Traditions, Innovations", the authors wrote that this organization, by 1940, had an active program of "traveling exhibits, lectures, and portfolios of prints (that) helped to sustain and broaden interest in the serigraph. Artists such as Ben Shahn, Mervin Jules, Ruth Gikow, Edward Landon, and Hyman Warsager were intrigued by the medium".[9]
In their 1970 book “Silk-Screen Printing for Artists & Craftsmen”, Mathilda V. and James A. Schwalbach wrote that a “major force in the development of serigraphy as a fine art was the formation in 1940 of the National Serigraph Society. It has set standards of excellence and has sent hundreds of exhibitions of its members’ work to countries all over the world. These exhibitions are responsible for a good deal of museum interest in the purchase of original prints as part of museum collections”.[10]
J.I. Biegeleisen and Max Arthur Cohn (a co-founder of the Society noted above), writing in 1942 about the origin and development of serigraphy, observed: "Specially noteworthy has been the work of the National Serigraph Society, New York, which has been the source of inspiration, clearing house, and temple of artists and print makers everywhere. The National Serigraph Society and its active director, Doris Meltzer, have been largely responsible for promoting this new print form and raising it to the level of a museum art form".[11].
^"Smithsonian Archives of American Art - Oral history interview with Anthony Velonis, 1965, October 13". Smithsonian Archives of American Art. 2002-12-20. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
^"Screen Printing Trivia". Serie Project. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 2019-02-08. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^"Max Arthur Cohn Biography". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^Jagasia, Lavesh. "Serigraphs - A Brief History". The Serigraph Studio. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^Burlingham, Cynthia. "A Very Democratic Form". Hammer Museum. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^Devree, Howard (April 20, 1955). "Serigraph Society's Annual Show Called International Event of Strong Color". New York Times Company.
^"Serigraph quarterly / published by the National Serigraph Society". Collections Search Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
^Ross, John; Romano, Claire; Ross, Tim (2009). Complete Printmaker. Simon and Schuster. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-4391-3509-9.
^Ross, John; Romano, Clare; Ross, Tim (1990). The Complete Printmaker: Techniques, Traditions, Innovations (Revised ed.). New York, N.Y.: Free Press (A division of Simon & Schuster). p. 145. ISBN 9780029273715.
^Schwalbach, Mathilda V. and James A. (1981). Silk-Screen Printing for Artists & Craftsmen (Revised ed.). New York: Dover Publications. p. 16. ISBN 9780486240466.
^Biegeleisen, J.I.; Cohn, Max Arthur (1958). Silk Screen Techniques (2nd ed.). New York: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 14. ISBN 9780486204338.
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