The Atelier 17 Project
Artists of Atelier 17

Artists

Ian Hugo

1898–1985

Born
1898, United States of America
Died
1985, United States of America
Gender
Male
Studio eras
Listed in
  • Moser Appendix (1977)

Printmaking manuals

  • New Eyes on the Art of Engraving (Yonkers: Oscar Baradinsky, 1946)

Atelier 17 group shows 12

  1. 1944
    New Directions in Gravure: Hayter and Studio 17

    Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York · June 28 to October 8, 1944

    Traveled to

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    James Johnson Sweeney, "New Directions in Gravure: Hayter and Studio 17," Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 12, no. 1 (August 1944).

  2. 1945
    Tenth Exhibition: Prints by 35 Members of Atelier 17 Group

    Willard Gallery, New York, New York · May 15 to June 2, 1945

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Tenth Exhibition: Prints by 35 Members of Atelier 17 Group. Texts by James Johnson Sweeney and Carl Zigrosser. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Willard Gallery, 1945. Anne Ryan papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    Maude Riley, "Atelier 17," Art Digest, June 1945.

    "The Passing Shows," Art News 44 (1945): 6.

  3. 1945
    Gravure in Revolution by Eighteen Artists of Today Associated with the Atelier 17

    The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois · May 4 to June 1, 1945

    Notes and sources

    Thank you to Álvaro Cárdenas Castro for sharing the brochure for this show.

    Sources

    Gravure in Revolution by Eighteen Artists of Today Associated with the Atelier 17. Exhibition brochure. Chicago: The Cliff Dwellers, 1945.

  4. 1946
    [Unknown title]

    American Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California · [ca. February 10] to March 5, 1946

    Notes and sources

    The American Contemporary Gallery, opened in 1943 by Barbara Byrnes and Clara Grossman, was a small exhibition venue located on Hollywood Boulevard that mostly showed art and experimental films by European avant-gardes. For more, see Rani Singh, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, ed. Rebecca Peabody, et al. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 7.

    About the exhibiting artists

    According to Arthur Millier's summary in the Los Angeles Times (February 10, 1946), this exhibition featured work by 13 studio members. No checklist exists but Arthur Millier's full review (February 17, 1946) mentions Stanley William Hayter and Louis Schanker. Millier also praises an unattributed print titled "Water Veiled." Ian Hugo is linked on that basis, since a print of that title is listed under his name in the 1946 Latin American checklist for MoMA's "Hayter and Studio 17" (1946-47).

    Sources

    For press coverage, see Arthur Millier, “Many Important Exhibits Opened Here This Week,” The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1946, 54; Arthur Millier, “‘Fantastic’ Art Launched in Three-Point Exhibitions,” The Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1946, 44.

  5. 1947
    Atelier 17: New Etchings and Engravings by Members of the Group

    The Leicester Galleries, London, United Kingdom · March 1 to March 31, 1947

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Catalogue of an Exhibition of New Etchings and Engravings by Members of Atelier 17 Group. Introduction by Herbert Read; technical note by S. W. Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. London: Leicester Galleries, 1947.

  6. 1949
    Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by Members of the Atelier 17 Group

    Laurel Gallery, New York, New York · March 14 to April 1, 1949

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by Members of the Atelier 17 Group. Texts by Herbert Read, James Johnson Sweeney, A. Hyatt Mayor, Carl Zigrosser, and Stanley William Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1949.

    "Prints by Members of Atelier 17," Art Digest 23 (March 1949): 20.

    [Review of Atelier 17 exhibition at Laurel Gallery], Art News 48 (March 1949).

  7. 1949
    Stanley Hayter, Atelier 17 Group

    Art Gallery of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia · October 1 to October 15, 1949

    Traveled to

    Notes and sources

    Gwyn Ferris, member of Atelier 17 and Atlanta native, selected 60 prints for this exhibition. The Lila Lewis Gallery additionally facilitated its display at the Art Gallery at the University of Georgia. Newspaper clippings indicate a two-week display at the Art Gallery, after which the selection was on view at the Lila Lewis Gallery.

    A type-set exhibition pamphlet in Stanley William Hayter's papers at Tate Archive matches many details provided in the press coverage. The pamphlet does not have a year and lists inclusive dates "October 1 to 24," which perhaps includes both venues in Atlanta.

    About the exhibiting artists

    The write-up in the Atlanta Constitution (September 30, 1949) mentions a checklist of 60 prints with many details matching the 60-object checklist in Tate Archive. This clipping, however, does mention Pierre Courtin and André Masson among exhibiting artists, and these two artists are not on the Tate Archive checklist.

    The Atlanta Journal review notes 57 works on exhibit.

    Sources

    "Stanley Hayter, Atelier 17 Group," October 1-24, [1949], Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/205/1.
    "Art Exhibit To Open at University Gallery Here," The Atlanta Constitution, September 30, 1949: 13; "57 Hayter Etchings On Exhibition Here," The Atlanta Journal, September 29, 1949: 32.

  8. 1951
    Atelier 17

    Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York · September 24 to October 14, 1951

    Traveled to

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Atelier 17. Contributions by William Lieberman, Massey Trotter, Una Johnson, Ruthven Todd, and S. W. Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1951.

  9. 1952
    St. W. Hayter – Grafisch Werk, Boekillustraties / Atelier 17

    Stedelijk Kunstsalon Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium · May 24 to June 11, 1952

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    St. W. Hayter: Grafisch werk, boekillustraties; Atelier 17. Introduction by John Trouillard. Exhibition catalogue. Antwerp: Stedelijk Kunstsalon, 1952.

  10. 1977
    Atelier 17: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition

    Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin · October 9 to December 4, 1977

    Traveled to

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Moser, Joann. Atelier 17: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition. Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1977.

  11. 1981
    Atelier 17: 1927 Paris New-York 1950

    Galerie de Seine, Paris, France · October 22 to November 28, 1981

    Notes and sources

    About the exhibiting artists

    Pablo Picasso is included in the checklist (no. 87, "Combat," 1937, burin), but this print is not linked to Atelier 17.

    Sources

    Exhibition brochure, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/112/1.

  12. 1986
    Atelier 17

    Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York · October 25 to November 22, 1986

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Parker, Barbara. Atelier 17. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Mary Ryan Gallery, 1986.

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