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The Alvin and Ethel Romansky Art Collection is a collection of works on paper,
consisting mainly of prints and drawings from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The collection is organized into two series: I. Graphic Arts, 1768-1987,
and II. French and German Works, circa 1800-1915. |
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Series I., Graphic Arts, has 132 works (ninety-one prints, seven drawings, three
paintings, and thirty-one posters) by seventy-five named artists and a few unnamed
artists. The bulk of this group is prints by twentieth century artists. Well-known
names include American artists Alexander Calder, Man Ray, and Andy Warhol; European
artists Salvador Dali, Käthe Kollwitz, Joan Miró, and Jacques
Villon; and Mexican artists Jose Ignacio Aguirre, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David
Alfaro Siqueiros. Miró's works include his gouache and oil painting La Poétesse and thirty exhibition posters.
Depression-era artists include Charles Henry Alston, Peggy Bacon, William Hicks,
Leon Foster Jones, and Seymour Fogel. There are prints by Pre-Raphaelite artists Sir
John Everett Millais and Holman Hunt. Portrait subjects include Charles Baudelaire
(12.7), Georges Braque (11.15), Marcel Duchamp (8.29), and Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis (12.8). |
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Series II., French and German Works, consists of 593 works (231 drawings, 332 prints,
four watercolor paintings, one collage, two broadsides, and twenty-three
reproductive prints) by ninety-three named artists and several unnamed artists.
These works primarily reflect Romansky's interest in the political upheavals in
France during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The bulk of these are
satirical depictions of the characters and events of the Franco-Prussian War of
1870-71 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Other works concern the Revolution of July
1830, the Revolution of February 1848, and a few works relate to World War I,
including a group of works by the German artists Max Lieberman and Emil Orlik. Other
artists represented by several works in the collection are Cham, Honoré
Daumier, Theodore Faure, Faustin, Paul Gavarni, Paul Klenck, Maximilien Luce,
Hippolyte Maissin, G. de Marcilly, Moloch, and Georges Pilotell. The works are
arranged alphabetically by artist. An index of persons depicted in this series
appears at the end of the finding aid. |