Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition: A Lecture by Anthony Rosati

Join us for an enlightening lecture on printmaking by print scholar and PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati organized by the Brodsky Center at PAFA and funded through a generous grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation (IFPDA).

FREE and OPEN to the Public
Registration Recommended

Rosati presents Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition, a lecture on the legacy of how printmaking has been taught through the pedagogy applied in the Print Study Seminar offered to students at two of the most influential Philadelphia art schools, the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Instituted by PAFA alum, lithographer Benton M. Spruance (1904–1967) at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (later know as University of the Arts) in the late 1930s, the Seminar was continued by printmakers Jerome E. Kaplan (1920–1997) and Lois M. Johnson (1942–2018), and, to this day, by Rosati at PAFA.

This lecture presentation will coincide with PAFA’s Open Studio Night. On Friday, February 7, 5–8PM, at PAFA Hamilton Building, located at 128 N. Broad Street, in Philadelphia, all enrolled students will also open their studios to the public, free of charge. Audiences will be able to meet the students and view their work in their studios. Additionally, the PAFA’s Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan Printmaking Studio on the 6th floor will be open for viewing demonstrations of printmaking techniques, along the Brodsky Center at PAFA’s Viewing Room where selections from the collection will be featured.

(Left) PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati, circa 1980, in his role as assistant curator at the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of prints, drawings, and rare books at Alverthorpe Gallery in Jenkintown, PA.; (Right) PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati teaching a PAFA student enrolled in the Print Study Seminar, in the Print Study Room of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

PAFA students enrolled on the Print Study Seminar taught by PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati, learning directly from historical prints in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the Print Study Room of the museum’s Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Merce Cunningham I, 1974, screenprint on Japanese gift wrapping paper, 30 x 20 inches, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Gift of N. Richard Miller, 1988.4 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Featured Image: PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati, circa 1980, in his role as assistant curator at the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of prints, drawings, and rare books at Alverthorpe Gallery in Jenkintown, PA.