Boston Public Library
The Impressions Workshop. Prints (1959-1987)
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"Freedom Fighter" for Operation Exodus
Many artists from Boston and further abroad printed editions of their work at Impressions Workshop. This collection includes prints given to Boston Public Library in a series of gifts from Impressions Workshop in 1972, 1973, 1976, and from Stephen Andrus in 1991, after the workshop closed.
Impressions Workshop produced many types of prints, including lithographs, etchings, aquatints, and relief prints. Some of these were editions of single prints, but Impressions also produced thematic portfolios, including: Crime Trial by Robert E. Marx with poems by Daniel Berrigan; 25 Prints for Artists Against Racism and the War--The Fifteen Days of May, with works by multiple artists including Sigmund Abeles, Barbara Swan, and John Wilson; and Michael Mazur’s Images from a Locked Ward. Other artists who produced work at Impressions Workshop include, but are not limited to: Calvin Burnett, Laura Grosch, Ronald Kowalke, Denji Noma, and Ruth Rodman.
Founded in 1959 by George and Margaret Lockwood, Impressions Workshop attracted a community of skilled artists and printers. George Lockwood was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. He taught in Amherst College, The Massachusetts College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Smith College in addition to founding and running Impressions Workshop and producing his own artwork. Stephen Andrus bought Impressions Workshop from the Lockwoods in the late 1960s and continued serving the Boston printmaking community until the shop closed in the late 1980s.
Critical funding to support long-term preservation of and enhanced public access to Boston Public Library collections, including this one, was provided by the Associates of the Boston Public Library.
Impressions Workshop produced many types of prints, including lithographs, etchings, aquatints, and relief prints. Some of these were editions of single prints, but Impressions also produced thematic portfolios, including: Crime Trial by Robert E. Marx with poems by Daniel Berrigan; 25 Prints for Artists Against Racism and the War--The Fifteen Days of May, with works by multiple artists including Sigmund Abeles, Barbara Swan, and John Wilson; and Michael Mazur’s Images from a Locked Ward. Other artists who produced work at Impressions Workshop include, but are not limited to: Calvin Burnett, Laura Grosch, Ronald Kowalke, Denji Noma, and Ruth Rodman.
Founded in 1959 by George and Margaret Lockwood, Impressions Workshop attracted a community of skilled artists and printers. George Lockwood was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. He taught in Amherst College, The Massachusetts College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Smith College in addition to founding and running Impressions Workshop and producing his own artwork. Stephen Andrus bought Impressions Workshop from the Lockwoods in the late 1960s and continued serving the Boston printmaking community until the shop closed in the late 1980s.
Critical funding to support long-term preservation of and enhanced public access to Boston Public Library collections, including this one, was provided by the Associates of the Boston Public Library.