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Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75

From the Collection

April 02 – August 30, 2015
Nicholas Monro, Animals Running Through Fire (detail), 1970. Screenprint on paper, 26 1/4 x 34 3/8 inches (66.7 x 87.3 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Mr. Lavere G. Lund. © Nicholas Monro. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Drawn primarily from the Nasher Museum’s vast collection of prints, Colour Correction examined a moment when artists adopted, and adapted, the screenprint technique during an extremely fertile period of experimentation and productivity in the United States and Great Britain. Coinciding with a confluence of social upheaval, political turmoil and artistic change and exchange, Colour Correction illustrated what many art historians consider to be the “golden age” of screenprinting. The exhibition included more than 100 works by 40 artists─from the playful Pop art of Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi to the scathing political critiques of May Stevens to the minimalist abstractions and optical exercises in visual perception by artists such as Richard Anuszkiewicz, William T. Williams and Liliane Lijn.

  • , Untitled from the portfolio Inward Eye. .

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  • , Spectral Cadmium from the portfolio Spectral Cadmiums. .

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  • , Koan - Cuts III. .

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  • Placed in the image’s center, Big Daddy sits, large and naked, with a bulldog on his lap. To his sides are interchangeable outfits: an executioner, soldier, policeman, and butcher. With an idiotic smirk and a phallic, or missile-like head, this ignorant “paper doll” can play any of the above roles simply by dressing the part.

    May Stevens, Big Daddy Paper Doll, 1971. Screenprint on paper, 21 x 35 inches (53.3 x 88.9 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky. © May Stevens. Courtesy of the artist and Ryan Lee, New York, NY. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

  • Peter Phillips, Gravy for the Navy, 1968-75. Screenprint on paper, 23 1/8 x 37 1/4 inches (58.7 x 94.6 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Dr. Marvin A. Sackner. © Peter Phillips. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

  • The title of this print is descriptive -- four black-silhouetted animals that could be foxes or deer or wolves leap across a background of red and yellow flames.

    Nicholas Monro, Animals Running Through Fire, 1970. Screenprint on paper, 26 1/4 x 34 3/8 inches (66.7 x 87.3 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Mr. Lavere G. Lund. © Nicholas Monro. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

  • Four green figures with pink donut-shaped eyes stand on a lighter green field. One figure raises one hand; another figure raises both hands.

    Nicholas Monro, Green Figures, 1970. Screenprint on paper, 25 x 35 1/2 inches (63.5 x 90.2 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Mr. Lavere G. Lund. © Nicholas Monro. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

  • , Six in Vermillion with Green in Yellow : April 1970. .

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