Chakaia Booker (American, b. 1953)
Quality Time, 2004
Vulcanized synthetic rubber relief, overall: 26″ x 20″
Gift of Exit Art

The Picker recently received a generous gift of eight portfolios featuring prints by more than 50 contemporary artists—many new to the gallery’s collection— from the alternative arts space Exit Art. Founded in 1982 in New York City by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art brought attention to the work of under-recognized and emerging artists through innovative exhibitions, films, and performances until it closed last year. The wide range of materials and techniques offers a veritable history of recent developments in printmaking. For example, in the 2004 portfolio Six by Four, the prints range from an inkjet print with hand perforation to a 4’ x 18’ schematic rendering of a shipping container.

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With the generous gift from Donald Schaefer ’46 of several Old Master paintings from the seventeenth-century Low Countries, the gallery’s collection was dramatically enriched. To celebrate, Professor Judith Oliver  has developed an online digital exhibition focusing on a selection the Picker’s holdings of European art entitled Selected Old Masters from the Picker Art Gallery. This is the first of what will become a series of curated digital exhibitions that showcase the permanent collection. View the Exhibition.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1564/65-1637/38)
Winter Landscape with Ice-Skaters (after 1616) Oil on panel, 22 ¾” x 17”
Gift of Max Oberlander

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