Recent Acquisitions from The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

October 15, 2011 - January 15, 2012

: Kara Walker no world, from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010 Etching with aquatint, sugar-lift, spit-bite, and drypoint, 30 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (76.8 x 100.3 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.; Hieronymous Wierix Madonna and Child on a Crescent Moon Engraving. Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Graphic Arts.; Robert Heinecken Surrealism on TV 1986 Unique Dye bleach prints with offset lithography. Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of the Graphic Arts.; Julie Mehretu Auguries 2010 12-panel aquatint with spit bite. Auguries © 2010 Julie Mehretu and Gemini G.E.L. LLC. Collection UCLA Grunwald Center fo the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund.; Ryan Gander Untitled Lithograph. Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund.

In 1956 Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald made an extraordinary gif t of more than 5,000 works on paper to establish the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA. Today the center’s collection has grown to more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books, dating from the Renaissance to the present. This exhibition includes a selection of works acquired by the Grunwald Center during the past five years. They range from a vibrant sixteenth-century engraving by Renaissance artist Hieronymus Wierix to a large-scale aquatint from 2010 by artist Julie Mehretu. Other artists represented in the exhibition include Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Enrico Castellani, Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Robert Heinecken, and Kara Walker.

Organized by Cynthia Burlingham, director; and Allegra Pesenti, curator, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.