id: 157550 accession number: 1994.82 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.82 updated: 2022-01-07 22:53:28.725000 Jam Session II, 1951. Fred Becker (American, 1913-2004). Engraving and softground etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1994.82 title: Jam Session II title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1951 creation date earliest: 1951 creation date latest: 1951 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: engraving and softground etching department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fred Becker (American, 1913-2004) - artist American printmaker and teacher, ca. 1914-2004 --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17 opening date: 2017-04-09T04:00:00 Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-August 13, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: By the time Becker created Jam Session II, he had left Atelier 17 in New York for a teaching position at Washington University, Saint Louis. There he established a printmaking department that would promote Atelier 17’s spirit of innovation to a new generation of artists. This impression of Jam Session II, one of the artist’s boldest black-and-white abstractions, is dedicated to Peggy and Fred Hartt, the latter a curator and fellow professor who helped form an especially strong collection of 20th-century modernism for what is now the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES