id: 157550
accession number: 1994.82
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.82
updated: 2022-10-29 16:03:58.270000
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
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creation date: 1951
creation date earliest: 1951
creation date latest: 1951
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: engraving and softground etching
department: Prints
collection: PR - Engraving
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Fred Becker (American, 1913–2004) - artist
American printmaker and teacher, ca. 1914-2004
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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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.
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